Iowa Public Television

• 

  Program: The Iowa Journal #305
  Broadcast Date: Oct. 8, 2009
  

• Visit the Web Site
• Program Information
• Tell Us What You Think
• E-mail a Friend

The Iowa Journal explores Iowa's role in the preservation and conservation of the state's and the nation's natural heritage.

In the first half hour of the program, Dan Kaercher takes viewers around the state to learn about people who have made and are making a difference to Iowa’s environment, in the past, the present and the future. Kaercher introduces viewers to four early Iowa conservationists: John F. Lacey, Charles Reuben Keyes, Ada Hayden, and Margo K. Frankel.

He also travels the Loess Hills in western Iowa and learns what people are doing to save the unusual topographical formation there. The program also visits Lakeside Lab on West Lake Okoboji. Founded in 1909 to teach students about “nature in nature,” Lakeside Lab offers opportunities students can’t find anywhere else.

Documents:

• Transcript of Iowa's Natural Heritage - Half-Hour Version (RTF)

• Iowa
• national parks
• nature
• parks
• preservation

Post Date: October 9, 2009