As the unofficial kickoff to summer and camping season hits this Memorial Day weekend, Iowa’s state park campground reservations already are largely filled up on weekends in June and July.
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As the unofficial kickoff to summer and camping season hits this Memorial Day weekend, Iowa’s state park campground reservations already are largely filled up on weekends in June and July.
Grinnell College students planted 5,200-square-foot prairie on campus, opting to cut out the sod and remove it rather than using herbicide to kill the grass. The space now will have 40 different varieties of prairie plants including coneflower, milkweed, purple love grass and little blue stem.
Splash pads in Cedar Rapids parks will open for the season on Saturday.
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In coming weeks, Cedar Rapids crews will cut down as many as 2,000 more trees damaged in last year’s derecho. Hundreds of new trees being planted.
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Queens are flying about now looking to make nests, expert says.
Environmental groups see this conversation — documented in an Oct. 2 email — as evidence Supreme Beef’s plan to have 11,600 cattle on the site near Monona was approved behind closed doors, rendering moot a public hearing and public comments.
Iowa officials wary of long-term support for biofuels
America’s new normal temperature is a degree hotter than it was just two decades ago.
National media outlets soon will be buzzing about the mass emergence of periodical cicadas in parts of the Midwest, Mid-Atlantic …
The funding for a new city-led project will involve other communities and agricultural partners to address water quality conditions in the river
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