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Upright chimney swift tower returns to life in Iowa preserve
The 6,500 pound Althea Sherman chimney swift tower was raised onto a new concrete foundation at the Bickett Rate Preserve along the Cedar River near Buchanan after 21 years. Barbara Boyle Johnson of Williamsburg and Dan Daly of Iowa City praised the effort to honor the early 1900s woman scientist. The tower, built in 1915 in National, originally aided study of swifts and will host a nest cam once swifts settle in.
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Buchanan
Barbara Boyle
Williamsburg
Cedar River
Cedar County
Althea Sherman
Boyle
Johnson County
Songbird Project
Sherman
Dan Daly
Iowa City
Ber
Althea
Daly
Clayton County
National
Iowa
American Ornithologists’ Union
Bob Anderson
Raptor Research Project
Swifts
Anderson
Harpers
Historical Society
Edgewood Hall
Lynch-Voparil
Orian
Love
Sazett
Bickett Rate Preserve
College Archives
Harpers Ferry