A year ago we looked forward to several 2020 trips. We planned to hike and camp in Vermont’s Green Mountains …
By Marion and Rich Patterson. correspondents Outdoors Dec. 21, 2020 10:58 am1773d ago
A year ago we looked forward to several 2020 trips. We planned to hike and camp in Vermont’s Green Mountains …
By Marion and Rich Patterson, correspondents Outdoors Dec. 14, 2020 12:00 pm1780d ago
As we drove home after camping at northeast Iowa’s Yellow River State Forest, a frustrating sign loomed on Highway 13. …
Outdoors Dec. 14, 2020 10:02 am1780d ago
Dogs put the fun in pheasant hunting. With their keen noses, predatory instincts, boundless energy and will to please their …
By Doug Newhoff, correspondent
Outdoors Dec. 9, 2020 1:34 pm1785d ago
When I was a kid some 50 years ago, ice fishing wasn’t especially popular. Our homemade portable shelters were bulky …
News Dec. 8, 2020 3:45 pm1786d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – The Mount Trashmore trails and overlook will open Wednesday and Thursday only thanks to the ‘unseasonably warm …
By Rick Jost, IowaWatch
Government & Politics Dec. 7, 2020 7:00 am1788d ago
State park rangers – certified peace officers who safeguard Iowa’s premier outdoor recreational areas – are confronting an increasingly endangered …
John Steppe Business News Dec. 3, 2020 6:00 am1792d ago
More than a quarter of energy used by Alliant Energy’s Iowa customers in 2019 came from renewable resources, the company …
Erin Jordan News Dec. 8, 2020 3:00 pm1786d ago
Iowa has fewer lakes, rivers and streams on its 2020 draft list of impaired waters compared with the 2018 review …
Outdoors Nov. 28, 2020 10:01 am1796d ago
URBANA – The decade-old Iowa Habitat and Access Program (IHAP) has been a triple winner for landowners, hunters and wildlife. …
By Brandon Caswell, correspondent
Outdoors Nov. 28, 2020 8:00 am1797d ago
The trend of irrupting winter birds keeps rolling along this year. History is in the making for this next featured …
By John Lawrence Hanson, correspondent
Outdoors Nov. 27, 2020 11:15 am1797d ago
The National Weather Service issued high wind warnings. The prediction maps on weather.gov let me envision the strong low pressure …
News Nov. 28, 2020 5:24 pm1796d ago
Recreational programs successfully rolled through city neighborhoods in a new van for the first time this summer with the launch …
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