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Iris at Quigley-Slattery Heritage Prairie, Buchanan County

Jessica Rilling

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  • Big Heart at Big Wall

    OCT. 22, 2024

    Big Wall Lake at the heart of a far-reaching legacy.

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  • From Prey to Predator: Energy Movement in Nature

    OCT. 14, 2024

    The circle of life seems gruesome, but in nature energy is never lost. It is conserved. Nature does not act with malicious intent, it acts with efficiency. Learn more about how energy moves in nature.

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  • Glenn Pollock to receive 2024 Hagie Heritage Award

    SEP. 27, 2024

    Iowa Natural Heritage Foundation has selected “super volunteer” Glenn Pollock to receive the 2024 Lawrence and Eula Hagie Heritage Award. Endowed in 1989 by Jan Shindel and Ila Jeanne Logan in honor of their parents, Lawrence and Eula Hagie, the award is given annually to a person who has demonstrated extraordinary personal service and commitment to improving the quality of Iowa's natural environment while encouraging others to do the same.

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  • Nature's Shapeshifters: Bird Murmurations

    SEP. 24, 2024

    Turn your eyes toward the sky at dusk, and you just might get to see nature's shapeshifters: a flock of murmurating birds. Bird murmuration is a phenomenon that occurs when hundreds of thousands (up to 750,000!) birds fly back and forth in a dense group.

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  • Risk, Reward, Recovery

    SEP. 19, 2024

    One of Iowa's tiniest fish holds some of the biggest conservation lessons.

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