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The Mines of Spain State Recreation Area and E. B. Lyons Nature Center is a state park in Dubuque County, Iowa, United States. It is near Dubuque, the eleventh-largest city in the state. The park features picnic areas, 15 miles (24 km) of walking/hiking trails, 4 miles (6.4 km) of ski trails, and the Betty Hauptli Bird and Butterfly Garden.
The Iowa Department of Natural Resources (Iowa DNR or IA DNR) is a department/agency of the U.S. state of Iowa formed in 1986, charged with maintaining state parks and forests, protecting the environment of Iowa, and managing energy, fish, wildlife, land resources, and water resources of Iowa.
The Natural Resources Conservation Service divides Iowa into 23 soil regions. In general, soils of southern, eastern, and western Iowa are loess-derived, while soils of northern and central Iowa are till-derived. Most level areas of Iowa have soils highly suitable for agriculture, making Iowa one of the most productive farming regions of the world.
Iowa State Preserves tend to be small parcels of land with some historic or environmental significance. The arrangement is alphabetic. This is based on information found at a website maintained by the Iowa Department of Natural Resources .
Iowa: Private One of the few essentially natural glacial pothole lakes remaining in Iowa. Cayler Prairie: 1965: Dickinson: State An example of the increasingly rare virgin prairie grassland. Cold Water Cave: 1987
The White Pine Hollow State Forest is a 944-acre (382 ha) forested area in Dubuque County, Iowa, United States. Of the forest, a 712-acre (288 ha) [2] tract is a National Natural Landmark and Iowa State Preserve. The state forest is named after its dominant old-growth tree, the white pine.
Iowa magnetic anomaly map showing the Midcontinent Rift curving from the north center to the southwest part of the state. [8]Buried deeply within Iowa's bedrock, the Midcontinent Rift System can be seen clearly in magnetic anomaly maps of Iowa.
Bixby State Preserve is a nature reserve located in southwestern Clayton County, Iowa, in the midwestern United States.It is located 3 miles (4.8 km) north of Edgewood.It is operated by the Iowa Department of Natural Resources as one of the Iowa state preserves.