Iowa's Volga River area adds early female ranger
Sarah Leachman 24, assistant park ranger at Volga River Recreation Area north of Fayette, is one of seven female assistant rangers in Iowa. The 5,500-acre park, Iowa's largest, is run by Leachman and ranger Jerry Reisinger. She attended the Iowa Law Enforcement Academy and oversees inmate work crews, trail and bridge maintenance, and educational tours for school groups and tourists. The project area has evolved over 10 years with plans extending two more decades, and the site remains open with new features added yearly.
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Iowa
Fayette
Sarah Leachman
Leachman
Volga River Recreation
Jerry Reisinger
Volga River
Frog Hollow Lake
Luster Heights
Allamakee
Reisinger
Iowa Law Enforcement Academy
Echo Valley Park
West Union
Outdoor groups elect officers in Cedar Rapids area
Becky Karr becomes Cedar Boat Club commodore the first woman in the 34 year history at the Jan. 15 meeting. Other Cedar Rapids officers include Lee Rathje Dean Pfiffner Dick Cortez Bill Allen and Jane Stepanek. Emperulla heads Cedar-Wapsie Group with Wally Taylor Pam Stone and others elected. Hiawatha Mohawks Camping Club installs Steve West and officers. Coast Guard Auxiliary appoints Jerry Repstien flotilla commander and Donna McGurk vice flotilla commander with other officers named.
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Lee Rathje
Dean Pfiffner
Dick Cortez
Bill Allen
Jane Stepanek
Pfiffner
Atkins
Cedar Rapids
Emperulla
McGowan Blvd
Marion
Cedar-Wapsie Group
Iowa
The
Sierra Club
Wally Taylor
Pam Stone
Douglas Miller
Hiawatha Mohawks Camping Club
Steve
Jan West
13Th Ave
Hiawatha
Frank
Willie Keller
Roger
Kathy Vange
Louise Jones
Matt Scheetz
Marland McCleary
Virgil
Eleanor Bowser
Charles
Deloris Michel
Steve West
U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary
U.S. Coast Guard
Donna McGurk
Bruce Canady
Earl Bender
Robert Fox
Terry Repstien
Francis McGurk
Roxann Repstien
Imogene Bender
Ellis Blvd
Marshalltown
Five Seasons Center
Iowa City
Conservancy Receives 25 Million Grant for Wetland Protection
The Nature Conservancy secures a 25 million dollar grant from the Richard King Mellon Foundation to buy threatened wetlands across the United States. The funding supports a five year program aiming to protect significant aquatic ecosystems including coastal wetlands in New England and Connecticut. The grant marks the largest private foundation conservation gift and emphasizes water quality and wildlife preservation.
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Gazette Wire Services
Nature Conservancy
U.S
Richard King Mellon Foundation of
Pittsburgh
Conservancy
William D. Blair Jr
New England
Connecticut
W. Kent Olson
The
Blair
Macbride Fisheree Postponed Due to Thin Ice
The ice fisheree at Lake Macbride, originally set for Sunday, is postponed to Sunday February 20 by the Wildlife Outdoor Club amid six inch ice in spots. Other fisherees remain scheduled for Pleasant Creek Lake Iowa Prairie du Chien and Wapsi Y events on their respective dates.
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Wildlife Outdoor Club
Pleasant Creek
Lake Iowa
Prairie du Chien
Wapsi-Y
Central City
Elk seen in southwestern Iowa near Lenox
State Rep Horace Daggett found a bull elk grazing in a Lenox farm field, the first seen in the area in 11 years. Conservation official Bob Barratt suspects it escaped from a game farm, noting elk sightings have occurred in Iowa before.
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Des. Moines
Horace Daggett
Lenox
Iowa
Daggett
John Marckmann
Bob Barratt
State Conservation Commission
Conservation Commission
Clayton board earns two perpetual conservation easements
The Clayton County Conservation Board received two donations of perpetual conservation easements from landowners Larry and Margaret Stone and Jeff and Ann Garland. The easements cap future land use, with inspections by the board while daily management stays with owners. Stone property along the Turkey River spans three quarters of a mile, while Garland land along Great River Road near North Buena Vista features timbered bluffs. The Iowa Natural Heritage Foundation aided in developing the easements, aiding private ownership and tax obligations.
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Gazette
Johnson County Bureau
Eleader
Clayton County Conservation Board
Clayton County
Iowa
Conservation Board
Larry
Margaret Stone
St . Olaf
Jeff
Ann Garland
Mission Viejo
Calif
Turkey River
Garland
North
Buena Vista
Iowa Natural Heritage Foundation
County Conservation Board
Foundation
Iown Corporation
Outdoor Roundup signals hunting season close and events
Three Iowa hunting seasons for quail gray partridge and ruffed grouse close Monday January 31 leaving only rabbit and crow seasons open. A Ducks Unlimited program on Iowa wild turkeys is set for February 8 at Winifred's Cedar Rapids.
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Iowa
Ducks Unlimited
Winifred’s
First Ave
Terry Little
Boone
Iowa Conservation Commission
Lowa
Audubon Banquet Set By Cedar Rapids Society
The Cedar Rapids Audubon Society will hold its annual banquet on Monday February 7 at 6 p.m. at St Paul’s Methodist Church located at 14th Street and Third Avenue SE.
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The
Cedar Rapids
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