The guide to Iowa's state preserves / Ruth Herzberg and John Pearson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Herzberg, Ruth.

Contributor:

Iowa. Department of Natural Resources.

Pearson, John.

Series:

Bur Oak guide.

A Bur Oak guide

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Forest reserves--Iowa--Guidebooks.

Forest reserves.

Forest reserves--Iowa--History.

Iowa--Guidebooks.

Iowa.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (216 p.)

Other Title:

Iowa's state preserves

Place of Publication:

Iowa City : University of Iowa Press for the Iowa Dept. of Natural Resources, c2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Iowa state preserves system was created in 1965; a decade later, thirty preserves had been dedicated, including "six native prairies, a native White Pine stand, the state's only Sphagnum bog, a Balsam Fir stand, some of the oldest exposed rock outcrops in the world, an ancient fort, a fen, several Indian mound groups and a historical cemetery." This new guide to all ninety Iowa state preserves-biological, geological, archaeological, historical, and scenic-describes the state's most treasured prairies and forests, quartzite outcrops and ice caves, and Indian mounds and wetla

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; History and Overview of the State Preserve System; Preserves; Ames High Prairie State Preserve; Anderson Prairie State Preserve; Behrens Ponds and Woodland State Preserve; Berry Woods State Preserve; Bird Hill State Preserve; Bixby State Preserve; Bluffton Fir Stand State Preserve; Brush Creek Canyon State Preserve; Brushy Creek State Preserve; Cameron Woods State Preserve; Casey's Paha State Preserve; Catfish Creek State Preserve; Cayler Prairie State Preserve; Cedar Bluffs State Preserve; Cedar Hills Sand Prairie State Preserve; Cheever Lake State Preserve

Clay Prairie State PreserveClaybanks Forest State Preserve; Cold Water Spring State Preserve; Crossman Prairie State Preserve; Decorah Ice Cave State Preserve; Dinesen Prairie State Preserve; Doolittle Prairie State Preserve; Fallen Rock State Preserve; Fish Farm Mounds State Preserve; Five Ridge Prairie State Preserve; Fleming Woods State Preserve; Fort Atkinson State Preserve; Freda Haffner Kettlehole State Preserve; Gitchie Manitou State Preserve; Hanging Bog State Preserve; Hardin City Woodland State Preserve; Hartley Fort State Preserve; Hayden Prairie State Preserve

Hoffman Prairie State PreserveIndian Bluffs Primitive Area State Preserve; Indian Fish Trap State Preserve; Kalsow Prairie State Preserve; Kish-Ke-Kosh Prairie State Preserve; Lamson Woods State Preserve; Liska-Stanek Prairie State Preserve; Little Maquoketa River Mounds State Preserve; Malanaphy Springs State Preserve; Malchow Mounds State Preserve; Manikowski Prairie State Preserve; Mann Wilderness Area State Preserve; Marietta Sand Prairie State Preserve; Mericle Woods State Preserve; Merritt Forest State Preserve; A. F. Miller State Preserve; Montauk State Preserve

Mossy Glen State PreserveMount Pisgah Cemetery State Preserve; Mount Talbot State Preserve; Ocheyedan Mound State Preserve; Old State Quarry State Preserve; Palisades-Dows State Preserve; Pecan Grove State Preserve; Pellett Woods State Preserve; Pilot Grove State Preserve; Pilot Knob State Preserve; Retz Woods State Preserve; Roberts Creek State Preserve; Rock Creek Island State Preserve; Rock Island State Preserve; Roggman Boreal Slopes State Preserve; Rolling Thunder Prairie State Preserve; Saint James Lutheran Church State Preserve; Savage Woods State Preserve

Searryl's Cave State PreserveSheeder Prairie State Preserve; Silver Lake Fen State Preserve; Silvers-Smith Woods State Preserve; Slinde Mounds State Preserve; Merrill A. Stainbrook State Preserve; Starr's Cave State Preserve; Steele Prairie State Preserve; Nestor Stiles Prairie State Preserve; Stinson Prairie State Preserve; Strasser Woods State Preserve; Sylvan Runkel State Preserve; Toolesboro Mounds State Preserve; Turin Loess Hills State Preserve; Turkey River Mounds State Preserve; White Pine Hollow State Preserve; Williams Prairie State Preserve; Wittrock Indian Village State Preserve

Woodland Mounds State Preserve

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-196).

ISBN:

9781609380083

1609380088