Looking for wildlife

DNR ecologists fan out every August to track Iowa’s rare species

Cami Koons, Iowa Capital Dispatch
Posted 9/8/26

Every August, for over half a century, Iowa Department of Natural Resource staff have set out along gravel roads at dawn, armed with a set of binoculars and, now, an interactive logging application, to survey the landscape for pheasants and other wildlife.

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