Major restoration effort to improve Black Hawk Lake nearing completion 6/20/2023 2:38:00 PM View Count 2909 LAKE VIEW – A second and final season of dredging on Black Hawk Lake, located in Sac County, is scheduled to end the week of June 18th. An additional two to three weeks of site clean-up and contractor demobilization will follow the dredging work.
Major restoration effort to improve Black Hawk Lake water quality 4/5/2023 9:13:00 AM View Count 3652 DES MOINES – A second and final season of dredging on Black Hawk Lake, located in Sac County, will start this week and is scheduled to end in early June. An additional two to three weeks of site clean-up and contractor demobilization will follow the dredging work.
Black Hawk Lake restoration efforts receive national recognition 12/6/2022 8:56:00 PM View Count 5180 DES MOINES – Project partners behind a major restoration effort to improve water quality in Black Hawk Lake, located in Sac County, received national recognition for their achievements.
Tomahawk Marsh is returning to its prairie and wetland heritage 10/18/2022 1:01:00 PM View Count 3522 Tomahawk Marsh is undergoing a facelift of sorts. Parts of the 428-acre wildlife area just north of Lake View in central Sac County, has been reshaped to create small seasonal wetlands, and many of the trees have been removed to reclaim the prairie and to emphasize the grassland and wetland ecosystem.
Iowa DNR to begin annual spring burning 3/18/2019 12:42:00 PM View Count 2573 The Iowa Department of Natural Resources will be conducting prescribed burns this spring on wildlife management areas managed by the Iowa DNR’s Black Hawk Wildlife Unit in Sac, Buena Vista, Calhoun, Crawford and Ida counties.
Iowa DNR to begin annual spring burning 3/27/2018 1:05:00 PM View Count 3749 The Iowa Department of Natural Resources will be conducting prescribed burns this spring on wildlife management areas managed by the Iowa DNR’s Black Hawk Wildlife Unit in Sac, Pocahontas and Cherokee counties.
Quietly wild, there’s more to Black Hawk Marsh than meets the eye 8/8/2017 1:38:00 PM View Count 10272 Lake View, Iowa - Lake View is a small town with a big outdoors reputation. Case in point: the Black Hawk Marsh Wildlife Management Area (WMA).
Fertilizer release in Sac County city of Odebolt 4/21/2017 2:40:00 PM View Count 2900 ODEBOLT – A tanker carrying ammonium thiosulfate, a liquid fertilizer, tipped over in Odebolt this morning.
Two injured in personal watercraft explosion on Black Hawk Lake 7/6/2016 3:55:00 PM View Count 5024 LAKE VIEW – A personal water craft exploded Tue on Black Hawk Lake in Sac County sending two people to the hospital.