by Richard Hollis | Mar 27, 2019 | Events
Help Fix Kent Park’s Lake Healthy Aquatic Communities Include Aquatic Plants by Brad Freidhof – Conservation Program Manager Restoring a lake and the associated wetlands within the watershed can be difficult and complex. Simply removing sediments, adding...
by Richard Hollis | Mar 25, 2019 | Birds, Events
Gladys Black: The Legacy of Iowa’s Bird Lady Johnson County Conservation has received funding from Humanities Iowa, a private, non‐profit state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities, to host the presentation called, “Gladys Black: The Legacy of...
by Richard Hollis | Mar 23, 2019 | Birds, memories, Uncategorized
Cherished Bird Encounter By Dena Miller The most cherished bird close-encounter that I’ve experienced involved my favorite bird, the cedar waxwing. At the time my family and I lived in a half basement apartment, I was in the bedroom when the sight of a single waxwing...
by Richard Hollis | Mar 23, 2019 | Uncategorized
We were able to find a new date for this program! On Sunday, March 24th join us at Port Louisa National Wildlife Refuge Headquarters for a presentation about Iowa’s land transformation and meet Connie Mutel, a local author and plant ecologist from Iowa City. She...
by Richard Hollis | Mar 1, 2019 | Uncategorized
Yet another Anti-conservation bill surfaces in Des Moines by Rick Hollis After posting about HF542, I read today about SSB1221, another bill which should be stopped. From the INHF blog “The bill eliminates the Charitable Contribution for Conservation Tax...