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The program is designed to further protect threatened and endangered species habitat through the restoration of eligible property. The overall goal of the program is to restore and enhance up to but no more than 500,000 acres (2,000 km 2) of wildlife habitat. [4]
website, operated by the Mahaska County Conservation Board, located at the 220-acre Russell Wildlife Area, features live animal displays, hands-on activities, interactive dioramas of Iowa's forest, prairie, and wetland ecosystems, fossils Mitchell County Conservation Nature Center: Osage: Mitchell: North Central
Commemorates the site of a fort built to protect the Iowa border during the Dakota War of 1862. Geode State Park: Henry County: Danville: 1,641 664: Skunk River, Lake Geode: Features a 187-acre (76 ha) recreational reservoir and a display of geodes, the Iowa state rock. George Wyth Memorial State Park: Black Hawk County: Waterloo: 1,200 490: 1940
INHF also works with landowners to protect their land through conservation easements, [4] in which a landowner relinquishes certain rights to all or part of his or her property (e.g. farming or mining), while still retaining ownership. INHF and the private owners develop a legally binding agreement regarding which property uses will be allowed ...
The Wetlands Geodatabase is one of the world's largest polygonal datasets (in the civilian sector). The information is increasingly popular and widely used to help identify, conserve, and restore wetland resources across the American landscape. During 2008, the number of website user requests for data exceeded 56.9 million.
Established in 1940, this agency manages 150 million acres (610,000 km 2) of the National Wildlife Refuge System, as well as thousands of small wetlands and other special land areas. Some of their contributions include protecting and conserving endangered species and their wildlife habitats and enforcing federal wildlife laws.
Most acquisitions are intended to increase habitat at existing wetland complexes, so it is unlikely that tracts will be acquired in the entire 35-county area. Most WPAs are small, from 100 to 500 acres (2.0 km 2), but several have grown considerably. Union Hills WPA in Cerro Gordo County is the largest in Iowa at over 2,000 acres (8.1 km 2).
ME 1973 10 acres (0.040 km 2) [182] Rachel Carson National Wildlife Refuge: Cumberland County York County: ME 1966 9,125 acres (36.93 km 2) [183] Seal Island National Wildlife Refuge (Part of Maine Coastal Islands National Wildlife Refuge) Knox County: ME 1972 65 acres (0.26 km 2) [184] Sunkhaze Meadows National Wildlife Refuge: Penobscot ...