National Public Lands Day Sites
11 Sites in Iowa - Search for a site
Centennial Park
Remove debris from park and along river edge.
Contact: James Patten
Agency: Quad Cities Kite Club & North Scott Rotary Club
Phone: (563) 650-4143
On the Web: www.QCKiteClub.org
Location: 1112 W. Beiderbecke Dr. | Davenport, Iowa 52801
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Coralville Lake
Remove debris; mountain bike, snowmobile and hiking trail work; day use recreation area and disc golf course maintenance.
Contact: Jeffrey H. Peck
Agency: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Phone: (319) 338-3543X6310
On the Web: www.coralvillelake.org
Location: 2850 Prairie Du Chien Rd. NE | Iowa City, Iowa 52240
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DeSoto National Wildlife Refuge
Collect prairie seeds and participate in the nation’s largest hands-on volunteer effort to improve and enhance public lands.
Contact: Kenneth Block
Agency: US Fish and Wildlife Service
Phone: (712) 642-5403
On the Web: www.fws.gov/midwest/desoto/
Location: 1434 316th Lane | Missouri Valley, Iowa 51555
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Effigy Mounds National Monument
Pick up trash.
Contact: Maria Wenzel
Agency: NPS
Phone: (563) 873-3491
On the Web: www.nps.gov/efmo
Location: 151 Hwy. 76 | Harpers Ferry, Iowa 52146
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Fourmile Creek
Volunteers may choose to cleanup trash from along the trail, streambanks, or in Fourmile Creek.
There are 3 differant sites that volunteers can choose from. They are in Ankeny, Berwick, and Pleasant Hill. For more information on site locations contact Zach DeYoung at 515-964-1883 x3.
Contact: Zach DeYoung
Agency: Polk Soil & Water Conservation District
Phone: 515-964-1883 x3
On the Web: www.polk-swcd.org
Location: 610 NE 36th Street | Ankeny, Iowa 50023
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Alternative Start Date: 2010-09-18
Alternative End Date: 2010-09-18
Herbert Hoover National Historic Site
Restore the 81-acre native tallgrass prairie: a great opportunity to work hands-on with our natural resources!
Contact: Adam Prato
Agency: National Park Service
Phone: (319) 643-7855
On the Web: www.nps.gov/heho/
Location: 110 Parkside Drive | West Branch, Iowa 52358
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Lake Red Rock
"Cache In - Trash Out" during "The Biggest Geocaching Event at Iowa's Biggest Lake" on September 18! Stop by the Lake Red Rock Visitor Center to pick up a garbage bag along with your GPS coordinates, and pick up litter while you search for approximately 100 geocaches hidden around the lake! Event runs from 10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. Celebrate National Public Lands Day early!
Contact: Tracy Spry
Agency: US Army Corps of Engineers
Phone: (641) 828-7522
On the Web: www.lakeredrock.org
Location: Lake Red Rock | Knoxville, Iowa 50138
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Alternative Start Date: 2010-09-18
Alternative End Date: 2010-09-18
Locks and Dam #14 Day Use Recreation Area
On the 15th, students from Pleasant Valley High School, (Pleasant Valley, Iowa) will be on site to do a couple of projects: 1. Working on a praire plot. Students will be cutting and removing overgrown/tall praire plants and non native growth from this site. 2. Collecting praire seed from another praire plot located close to the plot specified above (that the high school students last year planted). This seed will be planted/dispersed in another section of praire located by the project's entrance road. This will be a "closed" event since volunteers are proveded by the high school. No recruitment of help/public assistnce is needed.
Contact: Steven Vacek
Agency: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Phone: (309) 794-4301
On the Web: www.missriver.org
Location: Mississippi River Project | Pleasant Valley, Iowa 52767
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Alternative Start Date: 2010-09-15
Alternative End Date: 2010-09-15
Macbride Nature Recreation Area
Garlic Mustard Removal
Contact: Rob DuBay
Agency: University of Iowa
Phone: (319) 353-5565
On the Web: recserv.uiowa.edu
Location: 2095 Mahaffey Bridge Rd. NE | Solon, Iowa 52333
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Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge
Hand collect native seed from prairie plants.
Contact: Cheryl Groom
Agency: U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
Phone: (515) 994-3400
On the Web: www.tallgrass.org
Location: 9981 Pacific Street | Prairie City, Iowa 50228
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Saylorville Lake
Help "spruce" up the outside of the Saylorville Lake Visitor Center. Volunteers will help with landscaping, brush clearing and trail work.
Contact: Leah Deeds
Agency: US Army Corps of Engineers
Phone: (515) 276-4656 ext.6509
On the Web: www2.mvr.usace.army.mil/Saylorville
Location: Saylorville Administration Office | Johnston, Iowa 50131
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