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Iris at Quigley-Slattery Heritage Prairie, Buchanan County
Jessica Rilling
OCT. 29, 2024
As households around the Midwest prepare for spooky season each fall, you may notice a rise in real-life spiders scurrying around your home and yard. While some may find them creepy, spiders are an important part of the ecosystem, and really quite spectacular! Learn more about spiders and how to identify their webs, then head outdoors in search of them!
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OCT. 22, 2024
Big Wall Lake at the heart of a far-reaching legacy.
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.
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.
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.