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Iris at Quigley-Slattery Heritage Prairie, Buchanan County

Jessica Rilling

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  • Work of a Lifetime

    FEB. 17, 2020

    Good things come to those who wait. Better things come to those who go in search of them. Such seems to be the case for Ray and Patti Hamilton. It was in this way that the couple found and fell in love with Codfish Hollow Hill Prairie, 60 acres of remnant and reconstructed prairie-covered hills and wooded valleys east of Maquoketa in Jackson County.

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  • Loess is More at Green Hill Ranch

    APR. 24, 2018

    A groundbreaking partnership is helping create one of the Council Bluffs area's largest protected recreation areas

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  • Solitaire Ridge: A prairie that provides

    SEP. 25, 2017

    Solitaire Ridge is a 30-acre remnant prairie in northeast Iowa providing seed for prairie restorations and research.

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  • Remnant Prairie: A closer look at Iowa's rarest landscape

    AUG. 24, 2017

    Prairie remnants are fragments of Iowa's original, pre-settlement prairie landscape, and are home to irreplaceable diversity.

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