Don’t forget your year-end donation!
This time of year is notoriously busy, and the new year is sneaking up fast. Before 2022 gets here, don’t forget to send in your tax-deductible donations. Donate online or mail a check to 5300…
Fundraising
Giving Tuesday: Become One of 30 New Sustainers
This Giving Tuesday (Nov. 30), our goal is to gain 30 new ICNC Sustainers. Will you be one of them? What’s an ICNC Sustainer? Sustainers are monthly donors who provide critical funding to the Nature…
Nature’s Noel returns in-person on Saturday, Dec. 4
ICNC’s Friends group, acknowledged with AFP award, beginning preparations for annual holiday fundraiser following Thanksgiving holiday Indian Creek Nature Center’s signature holiday fundraiser, Nature’s Noel, is returning in-person this year on Saturday, Dec. 4 after…
We need nature, and nature needs us! Make a donation today.
Do you find that you need nature more than ever before? If so, you’re not alone. Research shows that time spent in nature reduces stress hormones and anxiety, lowers blood pressure, enhances immune function, increases…
Support early environmental education in Iowa — CFS Wishlist
Can you believe it’s already time to head back to school?! At Indian Creek Nature Center that means we’re gearing up for regular field trips and fall programs, but this year is extra special. On…
Earth Day – Arbor Day “Rooted & Resilient” Fundraiser
If you visit the Nature Center, the devastation of the August 2020 derecho remains a very visible, not-so-distant memory. The winds tore apart the trees in August, leaving debris and hanging limbs that are still…
Help us reach our goal: 20 new sustainers in 2020
This year has no doubt had its challenges, but now we have a challenge for YOU: This Giving Tuesday (Dec. 1), we’re striving for 20 new ICNC Sustainers (20 in 2020!). What’s an ICNC Sustainer?…
Opportunity in Disaster: Sowing Seeds of Change
By Executive Director John Myers Published October 21, 2020 in the Cedar Rapids Gazette Troubling events like the pandemic and derecho challenge us all, but they also provide a major opportunity. Change is nature’s…
Finding Beauty in Tragedy — Tree Art Inspired by the Derecho
Jamie and Kyle Morrissey will tell you they “aren’t artists.” But the prints piling in their dining room and garage full of tree cookies would suggest otherwise. Since the August 10th derecho, the Morrisseys have…
What makes a tree the “right tree?” — Our take on native trees
By Director of Land Stewardship Jean Wiedenheft People keep telling me how great catalpas are, but in my neck of the woods, quite literally, they are not great because they are not native. What constitutes…