Blank Park Zoo Monarch Festival 9/12/2017 2:53:00 PM View Count 3573 A celebration of the monarch’s journey from Canada, through Iowa, to Mexico, will be held Sept. 17, from Noon to 4 p.m., at Blank Park Zoo, in Des Moines.
Plant.Grow.Fly. to Plant Butterfly Garden on Iowa Capitol Complex Friday 6/15/2017 8:10:00 AM View Count 3910 DES MOINES, Iowa - Blank Park Zoo’s Plant.Grow.Fly. and several partners are building a pollinator garden at the Iowa State Capitol on June 16.
Central Iowa trumpeter swan soiree 1/17/2017 1:02:00 PM View Count 8153 The public is invited to a Trumpeter Swan Soiree, celebrating North America’s largest waterfowl species at the Blank Park Zoo Friday, Jan. 27 from 6-8 p.m., and at Walnut Woods State Park on Saturday, Jan. 28 from 10:30 a.m.- 2 p.m.
Blank Park Zoo Monarch Festival 9/6/2016 1:30:00 PM View Count 5014 Come celebrate the monarch’s journey from Canada, through Iowa, to Mexico at the 2016 Monarch Festival on Sunday, September 18 from 12-4 p.m. at Blank Park Zoo, in Des Moines.
Plant.Grow.Fly. and Mayor Cownie Encourage Iowa’s Mayors to Sign Monarch Pledge 3/24/2016 8:50:00 AM View Count 11978 DES MOINES, Iowa (March 23, 2016) – Des Moines’ Mayor, Frank Cownie, became the first mayor in Iowa to take the National Wildlife Federation’s Mayors’ Monarch Pledge.