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Woodlot Surprise: A Broadaxe

January 30, 2021

When we moved into our rural homestead in 1977, there was a misshapen oak tree growing through a wire fence.... Read More →

January 24, 2021

A 30-acre pine stand on the Meskwaki Nation Settlement near Tama was significantly damaged following last year’s derecho, an inland... Read More →

January 24, 2021

What makes a house a home? Bur Oak Land Trust AmeriCorps members found out this Martin Luther King Jr. Day.... Read More →

January 23, 2021

So far it has been a mild winter, keeping our midseason pond ice marginal for ice fishing and other topside... Read More →

January 16, 2021

A few weeks ago, we took a quick look back at the North American kayak as noted by early Europeans... Read More →

January 9, 2021

Heating your house with firewood is sometimes rated as carbon neutral because it is solar energy via photosynthesis, stored as... Read More →

January 3, 2021

Bur Oak Land Trust was the Featured Land Trust in this month’s Midwest Field Notes email update from Land Trust... Read More →

December 22, 2020

Much of what we know today about the history of the American kayak we owe to two people: Edwin T.... Read More →

December 16, 2020

In 2014, Judy Joyce was creating Seize The Carp Day, proposed as an annual summer event to encourage people to... Read More →

November 23, 2020

There are two species of aspen in North America and both of them live in eastern Iowa. The two are... Read More →