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  2. Iowa Department of Natural Resources - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. List of Iowa state parks - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of 63 state parks and recreation areas in Iowa. These state parks of the U.S. state of Iowa can be split into two groups based on management. The first group are those state parks managed by the Iowa Department of Natural Resources. The second group are those state parks managed by the county in which they are found.

  4. List of Iowa State Preserves - Wikipedia

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    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. A.F. Miller State Preserve; Ames High Prairie State Preserve; Anderson Prairie State Preserve

  5. Manson impact structure - Wikipedia

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    The Manson impact structure is an impact structure near the site of Manson, Iowa where an asteroid or comet nucleus struck the Earth during the Cretaceous Period, approximately 74 Ma. [1] It was one of the largest known impact events to have happened in North America. [ 2 ]

  6. Dewey's Pasture and Smith's Slough - Wikipedia

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    The Iowa Department of Natural Resources, the custodian of the Wildlife Complex, describes it as a "combination of prairies, shallow lakes, wetlands and oak savanna." [ 1 ] Formerly managed as the shallow "Trumbull Lake", [ 1 ] the Dewey's Pasture complex is today managed as a complex of wetlands, oriented towards a diverse population of wading ...

  7. List of Iowa state forests - Wikipedia

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    Name Location (of main entrance) Major forest Area ()Area () Backbone State Forest: Delaware County: No 186 75 Barkley State Forest: Boone County: No 40 16

  8. Brushy Creek State Recreation Area - Wikipedia

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    Brushy Creek State Recreation Area is a state park in Webster County, Iowa in the United States. 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.

  9. Parks in Floyd County, Iowa - Wikipedia

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    Iowa DNR 43°10′10″N 92°45′09″W  /  43.169470°N 92.75238°W  / 43.169470; -92.75238  ( East Idlewild Parking at south trailhead is located at intersection of Ocean Avenue and 130th Street, hiking is possible along old road that leads to Cedar River.