Prairie Chicken Restoration Efforts in Iowa 4/2/2019 2:03:00 PM View Count 9118 Greater Prairie Chickens (Tympancichus cupido pinnatus) commonly nested in Iowa until about 1900. In the 1880s prairie chickens were the most abundant gamebird on Iowa’s prairies.
Ringgold Wildlife Area touts prairie, timber, ponds 9/4/2018 1:16:00 PM View Count 5556 The Ringgold Wildlife Area, south of Mount Ayr on the Missouri border, is 2,600 acres of prairie, timber, oak savannas and floodplains with a handful of fishable ponds mixed in.