FOSSILS tell us stories. Fossils tell us of many types of life forms of long ago. Fossils help interpret past conditions of life on the land or life under water in once vast shallow oceans. Marshall County’s contribution to fossil discoveries is a chapter of our local history that needs to be ...

SNAPPING TURTLES are a common reptile in Iowa. Their scientific name is Chelydrda serpentina. Adults have a big head, a long spiked tail and a nasty disposition to defend itself from all takers. The potentially damaging part of a snapper’s head is its strong jaws, lightning fast ability to ...

OCTOBER IS HERE. Yippee. This is a special month every year when cooler air will arrive in due time. Oct. 1 had a day length for central Iowa of 11 hours and 46 minutes. By the 31st, day length will have shortened by 1 hour and 21 minutes to just 10 hours and 25 minutes. Earth’s orbit ...

Oct. 1 is the traditional start date for the regular deer hunting season for archers. However, youth hunters age 15 or younger do have an earlier time frame that began on Sept. 20. If they do not fill a tag early, the opportunity to use the tag during later seasons remains valid. As the ...

GREAT IMAGE opportunities sometimes fall into your lap. They seem to shout “here I am” and wait for you to admire those special moments, with your eye, or your cell phone camera or a higher end 35 mm camera. No matter how that mixture of the subject and lighting came to be, you were ...

PHEASANTS are a huge deal for Iowa upland bird hunters. This year marks the 100th anniversary of pheasant hunting in Iowa. It is one case of an introduced species from Asia that adapted very well to its release in 1925 across much of the United States. Many states jumped on the bandwagon ...