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Acorn Crew: Frost, Nature's Fingerprints

You wake up on a chilly winter morning and look out the window to find the ground, your car and...
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Lasting Legacies

Photo by the Iowa DNR People join Iowa Natural Heritage Foundation for all sorts of reasons. Some give when a...
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Prairie Doctor

When Ron and Barb Eckoff purchased a plot of land in Warren County almost 25 years ago, they didn’t have...
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An eastern gray squirrel chews a nut, photo by Larry Reis

Acorn Crew: Squirrels

An eastern gray squirrel chews on a walnut on a snowy winter day. Squirrels, like other rodents, have iron-rich enamel...
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Major Project Updates

Good things take time — protection projects may span years, or even decades! Wondering about the status of a recent...
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A family hiking at Hitchcock Nature Center, photo by Pottawattamie County Conservation

Get Outdoors for National Hiking Day

A family explores Hitchcock Nature Center along the new Lotus Loop trail. Nestled in the heart of the globally significant...
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Iowa's Wildest Classroom

Growing up in Iowa is to be intertwined with nature. We are raised in tune with the seasons — hyper-aware...
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Acorn Crew: Spiders

Orb-weaver spiders build wheel shaped webs that are excellent at catching prey. Photo by Larry Reis As households around the...
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INHF hits 200,000 acres protected

When Daisy Iowa Whitham (yes, that's her real middle name) donated her family's Jefferson County woodland to Iowa Natural Heritage...
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Big Heart at Big Wall

Photo by Ross Baxter "He was a unique individual,” Mitch Weller says about his father, Milton Weller. “He believed tremendously...
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rabbit by Larry Reis

From Prey to Predator: Energy Movement in Nature

I used to struggle witnessing death. But over time I have learned that nature does not act with malicious intent,...
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$470,000 to go to central Iowa wetlands thanks to Prairie Meadows grant

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Joe Jayjack, jjayjack@inhf.org, 515-288-1846 DES MOINES, Iowa — Prairie Meadows Casino recently announced that four central...
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