Iowa Governor Chet Culver presents Pikes Peak State Park interpreter Jessica Rundlett with a proclamation making Pikes Peak the capitol of Iowa for a day. "It was sweet," said Rundlett of the experience. |
Cherob Opfer, Pleasant Creek interpreter, and Spirit prepare for an educational program: "I used a horse in one of my Native American programs and researched symbols to paint on her. I brought her around the campsite and then did a story time with the children. It was beyond what many people have experienced and I really think the people learned a lot." |
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Ann Cannon and Christine Bates attack invasive plants at the Big Creek State Park service project before fall orientation. |
The full-year AmeriCorps members attended their orientation in January at Springbrook Conservation Education Center. |
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DNR Director Rich Leopold discusses the importance of environmental ethics with seasonal members at summer orientation |
Christy Madsen, conservation educator, and Henry Narigon, wildlife member, prepare to band birds at fall orientation |
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Woodbury Co. NRCS member Andrea Blong allied with a travelling AmeriCorps NCCC team and local volunteers to remove invasive shrubs and trees from Sertoma Prairie in Sioux City, a rare native prairie remnant |
Christy Madsen teaches young women to shoot bows and arrows at Outdoor Journey for Girls event at Springbrook |
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Luke Wright, water trails member, makes friends with the locals during a "Fish for the Ospreys" event. All fish caught were donated to SOAR (Save Our Avian Resources) for raptor rehabilitation |
Ryan Friedrich, conservation educator, helps fill food packets bound for Africa during the Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service |
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Scott Frieden of the Prairie Resource Center learns to test for Chronic Wasting Disease at fall orientation |
Members Brenda Vargas, Kelly Redding, and Kari Fisher attended the Iowa Women In Natural Resources (IWINR) Conference in February. |
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Trail Crew members Nate Wieting, Eric Earnhardt, and Amber Leasure-Earnhardt pose after completing a tree-planting project |
Pat Weber, water trails member, assists volunteers from the Iowa Department for the Blind and the Izaak Walton League in constructing nesting boxes on Inclusion Day |
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Trail crew members and volunteers plant hackberry trees in the camping area at Pleasant Creek State Recreation Area |
Wildlife member Ron Moore cradles a sedated bobcat kitten found in a Boone resident's back yard. Such an opportunity to interact with wildlife "is definitely a rare, once in a lifetime opportunity," according to Moore. |
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Melissa Keenan, wildlife member at Dubuque Co. NRCS, prepares to release a rehabilitated swan into the wild |
Members of the trail crew enjoy the fruits of their labor after rennovating a stone stairway at Dolliver Memorial State Park |
