Weekend Iowa area parks and fishing events announced
The F W Kent Park beach opens Saturday with 11 am to 8 pm hours and 75 cent child fees and 1.50 for older guests. A dog training seminar at Wrenegade Kennels near Litt leton runs 8:30 am with 25 dollar per person or 50 dollar per couple registration, plus meat and refreshments. A Linn County Izaak Walton League trash pickup on Cedar River is planned to start 9 am Saturday June 11 at Old River Road boat ramp Cedar Rapids with life vests and boats requested. The Cedar Rapids Bassmasters second tournament of the season ended with Dan Bliss and Les Schaefer tied for first at 17 pounds 4 ounces. multiple top finishers listed. Governor Branstad designates June 6 12 as State Fishing Week with license waiver June 10 11 12 though fishing laws remain in effect. WMT AM Derby at Coralville Reservoir runs May 11 5 am 5 pm with preregistration and a 25 000 tagged walleye prize. Youth Fishing Clinic June 12 at Lake Macbride hosted by Solon Jaycees contact Paul Sleeper.
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Police Shooting Range
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Call Fluegel
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Trailblazer Lauds Iowa Trails Pioneer Neenan
Orlan Love Gazette outdoor editor Tom Neenan is hailed as a founder of Iowa trails. The Center Point man led Cedar Valley Nature Trail development and later helped expand hundreds of miles of recreational routes, shaping a state network projected to reach 1,000 miles by 2000 with cross state and city linkages.
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Cedar Valley
Iowa
Cedar Rapids
Hoover
Gazette
Orlan Love
Tom Neenan
Iowa Trails Council
Trail Day Activities At Cedar Valley Nature Trail Community Event
National Trails Day brings 3000 plus trail groups nationwide with local Cedar Valley events at Boyson Road parking lot. The schedule includes Audubon Bird Walk, Hawkeye Bicycle ride to Center Point, Dogs on Trails test, Children’s Hike and Scavenger Hunt, Children’s Bike Ride with helmet rule, and a Nature Hike led by Gail Barels.
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Cedar Valley Nature Trail
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Hawkeye Bicycle Association
Cedar Rapids Kennel Association
Gail Barels
Linn County Conservation Department
kestrel fledging along Cedar Rapids highway 30 gains 35 young
Kirkwood Community College students monitor 12 kestrel nest boxes lining Highway 30 between Highways 13 and 151. This year seven boxes are in use with 35 eggs hatched and 35 fledglings expected as the team bands the young with help from a Macbride Raptor Center intern.
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Highway 30
Cedar Rapids
America
Kirkwood Community College
Parks and Natural Resources
Greg Platz
Dawn Zimpfer
Kirkwood
Plotz
Zimpfer
Dodie Dunlap
Macbride
Bucktail spinner helps catch elusive bluegill on nest
A writer fends off crappies to tempt bluegills guarding nests along a rocky shoreline. After experimenting with jigs, spinners, and night crawlers, a Mepps bucktail spinner with worm draws a bright bluegill near shore, solving the challenge for the day.
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Free Lance
American Kestrel Facts and Nesting Behavior
The American kestrel is North America s smallest falcon about the size of a blue jay. Both sexes have rusty tails and backs with black barring while males show blue gray wings. They inhabit open country including grasslands deserts farms and urban areas and feed on large insects small mammals and sparrow sized birds. They are monogamous with pairing starting about four weeks before egg laying in cavities. Four to five eggs are laid and incubation lasts about 30 days with both parents tending the young. Fledglings leave the nest at 28 to 30 days and depend on parents for two to three weeks after.
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Terry Milks
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Phil Doyle
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Tom Singer
Dave Franklin
Milks
Terry Branstad
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Iowana Council
Steve Atherton
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