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 →
Bur Oak Land Trust supports forest restoration project on tribal land
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 →
Bur Oak AmeriCorps turn Houses Into Homes with local nonprofit
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 →
Ice Safety
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 →
A Little History of the Birchbark Canoe
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 →
Managing a Firewood Woodlot
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 →
Land Trust Alliance featured land trust
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 →
A Little History of the Kayak
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 →
A Winter Project: Build a Recycled Kayak
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 →
Quaking Aspen
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 →
