Building Skills at Summer Camp
No Comments
For many children who attend Creek Camp at Indian Creek Nature Center, a highlight is building dams with their fellow campers in Bena Brook. While this may look like nothing more than play and fun,…
Posts by Eric Hart
Creekside Forest School Garden
What’s Happening in the CFS Garden Creekside Forest School students and teachers, in collaboration with Etzel Sugar Grove Farm and The Iowa Farm to Schools and Early Care Coalition, have planted their own garden. Updates…
The Truth Behind No Mow May
What is No Mow May? While a chemically-treated lawn isn’t good for pollinators, letting your yard go wild for all of May isn’t the best approach either. Imagine Jerry Seinfeld did a stand-up routine at…
The Stories A Yard Can Tell
Planting a New Tradition The Cole Family has made visiting the Spring Plant & Art Sale to buy native plants a family tradition. “Anyone who’s on our deck, they’ve heard the stories about the Indian…
2024 Cicada Double Hatching
The Buzz About These Bugs by Jen Rowray I am so excited for the upcoming double cicada hatching in the spring of 2024! On an average year we get tens of thousands of cicadas per…
New EV Charging Station at ICNC!
Charge Your Electric Vehicle at Indian Creek Nature Center A parking spot at the Nature Center is now reserved for electric vehicles using the charging station. Indian Creek Nature Center has been a leader in…
Visitors Becoming Volunteers
Frequent Nature Center Visitors Several times per month, To The Rescue transports individuals in their Adult Day Programs to Indian Creek Nature Center to get out on trails and see what Indian Creek Nature Center…
Bluebird Monitoring
Volunteers Encourage Return of the Bluebirds In spring 2023, we started back up bluebird monitoring at Indian Creek Nature Center with the support of a handful of dedicated volunteers. The monitoring season ran from April…
Crafting a Win-Win Relationship
James Klein, President of Cedar Rapids Bank & Trust, had the honor of the first maple tree tapping of the 2023 syruping season. “I got to tap the first tree last year. That was fun.”…
Who Loves a Warmer Winter?
Ups and Downs of Early Spring Temperatures in early February 2024 (dark bars) have consistently been above normal (green), which can cause chaos and opportunity for local plants and animals. It’d be fair to say…