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 was emplaced in the early 1850’s, earthen burial mounds were built by the […]
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 flatlands of this upper Midwest, what comes to mind […]
Spring has sprung in the Midwest, and we’ve been on the receiving end of our yearly scheduled deluge of rains that help turn a brown world, hanging on from a long, cold winter, into a land of greenery. It’s something close to the heart of any born-and-raised Midwesterner; we trade the ice and snow for […]
Most people would walk right past this place without ever knowing what happened here. Hidden along the Boone River in Iowa sits an old cemetery… and a story that feels more like a frontier nightmare than Midwest history. This is the story of Henry Lott. A settler. A conflict with the Sioux. A boy who […]
The transition from fall to winter is a special and enjoyable time in Iowa. The first few snowstorms have come and gone, and those green monsters have gobbled up the endless plains of corn and soybeans. It’s quite a different world from the hot and steamy days of summer. The land lies bare, almost naked, […]
This, my friend, is a story as old as time, and anyone with some critical thinking skills can read the writing on the wall. Hopefully, history proves me wrong, that would be nice, but very doubtful. The Iowa DNR and the Governor’s office have been the bane of Iowa Outdoors for a long time, and […]
Tired of all the politics and hubbub of Des Monies life? Need to be reminded that some of Iowa’s water is less polluted than others? If so, then you should head to NE Iowa in search of beautiful fall hiking down in the valleys where the cold clear streams run clean and the trout are […]