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Over the last five years, 74% of people who died on a motorcycle were not wearing a helmet. ... In 2023, 63 people were killed in motorcycle crashes in Iowa and 11 have been killed so far in 2024 ...
With an area encompassing over 6,000 acres (24 km 2), the facility is one of Iowa's largest public outdoor recreation areas. A relatively new recreational area, Brushy Creek did not have an easy beginning. In 1967, the Iowa Department of Natural Resources published a controversial proposal to flood Brushy Creek's forested canyon.
The core of the Neal Smith refuge was a 3,600-acre (1,500 ha) block of land originally acquired by Iowa Power and Light) for a nuclear power plant. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service acquired this land in 1990. [ 4 ]
Roadog is a motorcycle built by engineer and motorcycle enthusiast Wild Bill Gelbke between 1962 and 1965. A total of two were built. Gelbke, who had attended engineering school in Wisconsin and at University of Southern California, had worked for McDonnell Douglas and also owned two motorcycle shops in Chicago and Hammond, Indiana.
The central area of the state was developed more by subsistence farmers who seldom owned slaves. [114] Texas in its Wild West days attracted men who could shoot straight and possessed the zest for adventure, "for masculine renown, patriotic service, martial glory, and meaningful deaths". [115]
84-year-old Robert Irwin was driving a golf cart around 3:20 p.m. when he stopped at Highway 65 and 170th Street, according to an Iowa State Patrol crash report. Irwin began crossing from east to ...
The 8,362-acre (3,384 ha) refuge (46% in Iowa, 54% in Nebraska) preserves an area that would have been otherwise lost to cultivation. In 1960, an Army Corps of Engineers channelization project on the Missouri River moved the main river channel in the area to the west. The former river channel became DeSoto Lake, a seven-mile long oxbow lake. As ...
Elk were once abundant in Iowa, but now are a rare site. Jared McDonald, of Winterset, spotted this elk in rural Madison County on Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2023.