Biodiversity

Monarch Fest

A Deeper Dive into Monarch Fest

2025 was Indian Creek Nature Center’s 10th annual Monarch Fest, and with over 1600 people, the largest one to date. Having the Iowa Children’s Museum present, caterpillar adoptions, native plant […]

Reflecting on Derecho

Reflecting on Derecho

Warning sirens sounded across Linn County on August 10, 2020 as a rare derecho wind storm approached Cedar Rapids with wind speeds as high as 140 miles per hour. The […]

Native Plant Giveaway

Native Pollinator Plant Giveaway

Helping pollinators, like the monarch butterfly, by restoring their habitat is easier than ever, thanks to Indian Creek Nature Center volunteers who organize a native plant giveaway at Monarch Fest. […]

Aldo Leopold Book Review

Aldo Leopold Book Review

Celebrating Aldo Leopold’s Legacy Before Buddy Huffaker, Executive Director of the Aldo Leopold Foundation, comes to speak at Indian Creek Nature Center on April 25, we want to take a […]

Why Burn A Prairie

Why Burn a Prairie

On a cool spring day, the preschoolers at Creekside Forest School noticed part of the Stimple Prairie, which held their beloved labyrinth, looked different. The tall grasses were gone and […]

The Truth Behind No Mow May

What is No Mow May? Imagine Jerry Seinfeld did a stand-up routine at an ecology conference. He might begin, in his iconic style, with a joke like “What’s the deal […]

Etzel Sugar Grove Farm

Permaculture: an alternative to the status quo

What is permaculture? The term “permaculture” was coined by a pair of Australian environmentalists in 1978 by condensing the phrase “permanent agriculture,” but the term speaks to concepts that are […]

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