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The Midwest Has Secrets: Exploring Boneyard Hollow

Hidden deep in the rolling landscape of Central Iowa, just far enough away from the buzzing cities to get overly crowded, lies a place that has been visited by humans since 1000 BCE. Long before the first hardened settlers and Fort Dodge…
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America’s Biggest Steel Mill Is Coming to Iowa. Is That a Good Thing?

This is probably one of the strangest things I've seen in Iowa in .... well ... my lifetime? Some things are hard to swallow, but no surprise, like our sordid tale of water quality; but this? Didn't see it coming. When you think of the rolling…
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Exploring the River on a Rainy Day | 2 Minutes of Peace in the Wild

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