Leaf colors are primed to begin their autumn ‘best of show’ right on schedule for the middle of October. The color show is free. Effort is required on your part to find a location where the maximum brightness and abundance of colors will be in full force. This author highly recommends ...

Iowa River low flow rates have dominated during the month of September. A check on the data from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers website shows a flat line of water discharge rates. A week ago, the flow rate was about 62 cubic feet per second. At the end of September, the rate was about 80 ...

Travel is an adventure, and since my interests take in a broad pallet of interesting natural history related subjects, I often pursue backroad excursions to find interesting places. It has worked well for me over many decades of time. South Dakota never disappoints, and, I might add, all of ...

The Mann Wetland site south of Albion and just east of Timmons Grove (north) is slated for its makeover habitat enhancement work beginning this fall. I highlighted this project about one year ago in my Outdoors Today story of Oct. 30, 2022, when news was received by the Marshall County ...

Fall officially arrives on Sept. 23, the autumnal equinox. Birds that migrate do not have to consult a calendar to figure that out. Their brains are hardwired to interpret day length/night lengths, and the azimuth of the sun overhead as our planet earth orbits around it. In addition, little ...

OTTER CREEK MARSH is a river bottom wetland complex totaling over 3,500 acres near the Iowa River in Tama County. During normal times, that is during years when ‘normal’ rainfall events happen throughout the year, water levels in the various pools at the marsh can be controlled via gate ...