Backpacking Workshop Emphasizes Know Your Gear
The Indian Creek Nature Center hosted a six hour backpacking workshop for sixteen would be hikers. Topics covered included selecting and packing a backpack preparing a campsite and cooking. A blindfolded tent setup drill simulated adverse conditions.
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Indian Creek Nature Center
Otis Road SE
Bill Desmarais
National Outdoor Leadership School
Lander
Wyo
Curt Abdoudh
Summer Leisure Features Highlight Gazettes Next Week
Eastern Iowa readers are promised a Summer Leisure Living and Garden section in next Thursday’s Gazette. The feature will offer ideas for gardening camping golfing picnics and band concerts with contributions from Curt Abbdoudh Indian Creek Nature Center Dorothy Woods Sapp and Les Zachers among others.
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Gazette
Curt Abdoudh
The
Indian Creek Nature Center
Gazette Garden
Dorothy Woods Sapp
Les Zachers
Pleasant Creek reservoir enters new development phase
Pleasant Creek reservoir filling is underway as Eastern Iowa expands the 1900 acre recreation area near Palo 4 miles north of town. The site will offer boating fishing swimming camping hiking and nature study with water pumped at 10000 gallons per minute and 400000 young fish stocked. Water management aims to keep a near constant level and release only about 5 percent of the time.
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Pleasant Creek
Iowa
David Johnson
Shire- Hattery and Associates
Johnson
Palo
Cedar River
State Conservation Commission
Iowa General Assembly
Iowa Electric Light and Power Co
Central Iowa Power Cooperative
Corn Belt Cooperative
Iowa Electric
Duane Arnold Nuclear Energy Center
How to Build a Picnic Fire With Dry Matches and Wood
Dry matches and wood form the core of a simple picnic fire. Select a windy safe site, gather dry driftwood, and layer materials from small to large over paper. Build a cooking fire with green stakes, create a stable base, and use a grill or improvised supports as needed. End with relaxing by your homemade fire.
National Park Safety Push Aims to Prevent Summer Accidents
National Park Service Director Gary Everhart warns vacationers to heed safety hazards in parks. He notes 1976 saw 153 visitor deaths from drowning, vehicle crashes, and falls amid 267.8 million visits. emphasizes cold waters, steep stairs, and roadside hazards.
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National Park
National Park Service
Gary Everhardt
National Park System
Everhardt
Department of Interior
NPS
Cedar Rapids Hosts Backpack Clinic at Ambroz Center
The Cedar Rapids Recreation Commission will host a backpack clinic on May 12 from 6 to 9 p.m. at Ambroz Recreation Center. For more information, contact Tom Cook at the center, 398-5065.
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Cedar Rapids
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Linn
Yellow River State Forest
Abdoudh
Yellow
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Colin Fletcher
Paul Petzoldt
Abdouch
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Hotos
Tom Me
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Mt. Vernon
Bob Warnock
Thirty-eighth Street Drive
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Thirtieth Street
Kim Cocciola
Echo Lane
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