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Oak Knoll Visits Kent Park

Yesterday I spend some time out at FW Kent P with some folks from Oak Knoll Retirement Residence.   We had a wonderful time. For a general group, Kent P at the CEC is great place to visit, lots of different things to see, inside and out. We started at the Blind, which...

Ornate Box Turtle Eggs Hatch!

The femaleOrnate Box Turtle laid two eggs, earlier in the year,  The Naturalists moved them to a place where they could keep the humidity high and the temperature more constant.   After NN days one egg hatched, and the next day the second egg hatched 9/20 and 9 21]....

2018 Iowa mussel blitz on the Iowa River

2018 Iowa mussel blitz on the Iowa River 9/11/2018   IOWA DNR News Release The Iowa River, from the Coralville Dam to Hills, was the focus of this year’s annual research project to inventory and map the distribution of Iowa’s mussels, often called clams. More than 50...