Often overlooked, Eagle Lake is a high quality North Iowa wild place that's ready for prime time 9/14/2021 2:50:00 PM View Count 3887 Eagle Lake Wildlife Area is a 960-acre high quality natural marsh within a 2,000-acre complex that is an important stop for marsh birds on the migration route and home to unique plant and animal species not found in many places around Iowa.
Eagle Lake Wildlife Area is quietly becoming a really big deal 7/25/2017 1:23:00 PM View Count 9591 ESTHERVILLE, Iowa - Eagle Lake is a survivor. The 290-acre natural shallow lake on the Iowa-Minnesota border in northern Emmet County staved off being drained entirely in the early 1900s by a newly formed drainage district on the lake’s south side.