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Add spring color to your yard with quality native Iowa seedlings

• 2/20/2024 12:18:00 PM
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AMES - The Iowa DNR State Forest Nursery offers spring delivery in April and May for hardwood, conifer and shrub seedlings. Seedlings can be ordered through May 24.

Central Iowa winter community trout stockings changed to unannounced

• 1/25/2024 2:42:00 PM
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Winter community trout stockings at central Iowa ponds scheduled for this Saturday, Jan. 27 in Bondurant, Saturday, Feb. 3 in Ames and Waukee, and Saturday, Feb. 10 in Johnston will be unannounced due to warm weather and deteriorating ice conditions.

DNR State Forest Nursery seedling orders start Sept. 1

• 8/22/2023 12:18:00 PM
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AMES - The DNR State Forest Nursery is gearing up for fall 2023 and spring 2024 seedling orders.

DNR State Forest Nursery seedling orders start Sept. 1

• 8/23/2022 11:54:00 AM
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AMES - The DNR State Forest Nursery is gearing up for fall 2022 and spring 2023 seedling orders.

Road work to close James Avenue beginning August 1

• 8/1/2022 3:03:00 PM
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SWISHER - James Avenue that runs north along the southeast side of the Hawkeye Wildlife Unit and Babcock Access will be closed for road work beginning Aug. 1.

DNR investigating fish kill in Ames

• 7/9/2021 10:20:00 AM
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AMES, Iowa – DNR staff investigated a fish kill along Ioway Creek in Ames, Thursday, July 8 after a passerby noticed dead fish mid-morning and called the DNR.

Forestry Virtual Field Day Planned at Shimek State Forest

• 9/29/2020 1:22:00 PM
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AMES, Iowa – The Shimek State Forest in Iowa’s southeast corner will again be featured for this year’s fall forestry field day – this time in a free online format.

DNR State Forest Nursery offers options to replace derecho damaged trees

• 9/1/2020 1:13:00 PM
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AMES, Iowa -- As clean-up efforts are well underway and even nearing completion in some areas following the derecho that tore through Iowa in early August, the DNR State Forest Nursery is working with customers to select the proper trees to replant in areas completely leveled by the storm.

Recent habitat improvements at Hendrickson Marsh will be on display this fall

• 8/19/2020 6:54:00 AM
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Sitting smack in the middle between Marshalltown and Ames, the 850-acre Hendrickson Marsh Wildlife Area is a get-away-from-the-crowd kind of place, enjoyed by kayakers and bird watchers, and outside of opening weekend of duck season, by hunters.

Trout stocking at Ada Hayden Heritage Park postponed

• 1/28/2020 3:39:00 PM
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Ames, Iowa – The trout stocking and family trout fishing event scheduled for this Saturday, Feb. 1, at Ada Hayden Heritage Park, has been postponed due to unsafe ice conditions for the expected large crowd. 

Bondurant and Ames trout stockings moved to Nov. 7 & Nov. 8

• 11/6/2019 1:58:00 PM
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The trout stocking at Lake Petocka, Bondurant, has been moved to Nov. 7 at noon. The trout stocking at Ada Hayden Heritage Park Lake, Ames, has been moved to Nov. 8 at 10 a.m.

Family trout fishing event this Saturday in Ames

• 1/29/2019 2:32:00 PM
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AMES – A family friendly trout fishing event will be held at noon Saturday, Feb. 2, at Ada Hayden Heritage Park, in Ames.

DNR providing extra enforcement over 2019 Winter Games in Okoboji

• 1/24/2019 8:31:00 AM
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OKOBOJI, Iowa - DNR conservation officers will be partnering with the Iowa State Patrol and the Dickinson County Sheriff’s Office on a special enforcement project over the Winter Games at Okoboji this weekend.

Family Trout Fishing Event This Saturday In Ames

• 2/3/2016 4:10:00 AM
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AMES – A family trout fishing event will be held at Ada Hayden Heritage Park this Saturday, Feb. 6 at 11:30 a.m. The Iowa Department of Natural Resources will stock 2,200 rainbow trout in the north lake between 11:30 a.m. and noon.

Where Do Your Recyclables Go?

• 11/30/2015 7:24:23 AM
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If your kids have ever asked what happens to that milk jug after you toss it in the recycling bin - or maybe you're curious yourself - here's what happens beyond the bin.

Archery Participation Benefiting From Popular Movie Franchise

• 11/17/2015 10:28:00 AM
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Archery is experiencing a wave of popularity thanks, in part, to the successful Hunger Games series, and locally to Iowa’s expanding archery in the schools program.