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Wildlife Area Attractions In Iowa

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Iowa is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States, bordered by the Mississippi River to the east and the Missouri River and Big Sioux River to the west. It is bordered by six states; Wisconsin to the northeast, Illinois to the east, Missouri to the south, Nebraska to the west, South Dakota to the northwest and Minnesota to the north. In colonial times, Iowa was a part of French Louisiana and Spanish Louisiana; its state flag is patterned after the flag of France. After the Louisiana Purchase, people laid the foundation for an agriculture-based economy in the heart of the Corn Belt.In the latter half of the 20th century, Iowa's agricultural economy m...
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Wildlife Area Attractions In Iowa

  • 1. Decorah Fish Hatchery Decorah
    Decorah is a city in and the county seat of Winneshiek County, Iowa, United States. The population was 8,127 at the 2010 census. Decorah is located at the intersection of State Highway 9 and U.S. Route 52, and is the largest community in Winneshiek County.
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  • 2. Mines of Spain Dubuque
    The Mines of Spain State Recreation Area and E. B. Lyons Nature Center is a state park in Dubuque County, Iowa, USA. It is near Dubuque, the eighth-largest city in the state. The park features picnic areas, 15 miles of walking/hiking trails, 4 miles of ski trails, and the Betty Hauptli Bird and Butterfly Garden. It also includes archaeological sites of national importance as an early lead mining and smelting venture led by French explorer Julien Dubuque, as well as Dubuque's gravesite. These sites were collectively designated a National Historic Landmark District as Julien Dubuque's Mines.
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  • 6. National Eagle Center Wabasha
    The National Eagle Center is a nonprofit organization in Wabasha, Minnesota, United States, that focuses on conservation, research and educational efforts relating to eagles.
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  • 7. Bickelhaupt Arboretum Clinton Iowa
    Bickelhaupt Arboretum is a non-profit arboretum located in Clinton, Iowa. It is open dawn to dusk daily without charge. The arboretum was established by Bob and Frances Bickelhaupt around their home and given to the public in 1970. The Bickelhaupts grouped tree plantings by genus. Major collections include maple , birch , hickory , beech , ash , honeylocust , magnolia , ornamental crabapple , oak , linden and elm . Other specimens include alders , pecan , hackberry , dogwoods , ginkgo , thornless honeylocust , Kentucky coffeetree , black tupelo , swamp white oak , willows , and baldcypress . The arboretum also includes outstanding conifer specimens of spruce, pine, fir, douglas fir and larch. The arboretum's collection of garden conifers contains over 600 accessions from 14 genera hardy in...
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  • 8. Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge and Prairie Learning Center Prairie City
    The Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge is a federal national wildlife refuge located in Jasper County, Iowa, United States. The refuge, formerly known as Walnut Creek, is named after Congressman Neal Edward Smith, who championed its creation. It seeks to restore the tallgrass prairie and oak savanna ecosystems that once covered most of Iowa. It has a herd of approximately 50 buffalo and 20 elk. The core of the Neal Smith refuge was a 3,600-acre block of land originally acquired by Iowa Power and Light for a nuclear power plant. The Fish and Wildlife Service was able to acquire this land in 1990. Today the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has acquired about 6,000 acres much more of the allocated 11,865 acres . Although the Neal Smith refuge includes a patchwork of small and seriously degrade...
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  • 10. Fontenelle Forest Nature Center Bellevue Nebraska
    Fontenelle Forest is a 1,400-acre forest, located near Bellevue, Nebraska. Its visitor features include hiking trails, a nature center, children's camps, a gift shop, and picnic facilities. The forest is listed as a National Natural Landmark and a National Historic District. The forest includes hardwood deciduous forest, extensive floodplain, loess hills, and marshlands.
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  • 11. Desoto National Wildlife Refuge Missouri Valley
    DeSoto National Wildlife Refuge, created in 1958, is located along the banks of the Missouri River in the U.S. states of Iowa and Nebraska. The 8,362-acre refuge preserves an area that would have been otherwise lost to cultivation. In 1960, an Army Corps of Engineers channelization project on the Missouri River moved the main river channel in the area to the west. The former river channel became DeSoto Lake, a seven-mile long oxbow lake. As a result, part of the Nebraska portion of the refuge lies on the east side of the Missouri River. For over 20 years after construction, the lake was used for recreational boating, with half of the lake designated for watersports and the other half a no-wake zone for wildlife habitat and fishing. The lake was so popular that access was limited by the par...
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