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Early Iowa conservationists shaped land use and policy
Jerome Thompson, Theodore Parvin, Louis Pammel, Ada Hayden and Thomas Macbride emerge as early advocates in Iowa. They lobbied, studied native flora, helped create parks and a Board of Conservation, built the state library, herbarium, and Lakeside Laboratory, and advanced prairie preservation across Iowa from Des Moines to Milford and beyond.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jerome Thompson
State Historical Society of
Iowa
Conard
Theodore S. Parvin
Parvin
Robert Lucas
Des Moines
State Capitol
Annals of Iowa
Edgar R. Harlan
Harlan
Louis Pommel
State House
Kevin Mason
Waldorf University
Pammel
Mason
Burlington
Muscatine
Iowa City
University of Iowa
Iowa State Historical Society
Thomas Macbride
Coward
Macbride
Iowa Academy of Science
Iowa Parks System
Bohumil Shimek
The
Iowa Parks and
Forestry Association
Iowa Conservation Association
Iowa State University Parks Library
Shimek
Samuel Calvin
Lakeside Laboratory
Milford
Louis Pammel
Iowa State
Ada Hayden
Charlotte King
Board of Conservation
Hayden
Pommel
Thompson
Laura Sullivan
ISU Parks Library
J.M. Aiken
State Conservation Commission
SCC
Howard County
Iowa State Herbarium
Lowa
Iowa Masonic Library and Museum