Preparing Newly Planted Trees for an Iowa Winter
We’ve been lucky to have warmer weather so far this winter, but with colder temperatures in the forecast this week, take a few minutes to ensure newly planted trees are prepared for the rigors of…
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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…
Turn the Derecho Disaster into Opportunity
By Director of Education Kelli Kennon-Lane Published October 24, 2020 in the Cedar Rapids Gazette Many property owners in Linn County are seeing the light — literally. With trees and shrubs downed or damaged,…
Fall prescribed burns starting next week
Fall prescribed burns on the Nature Center’s property are planned beginning Thursday, October 29 and continuing on the following dates: October 31 and November 1, 2, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15, 17, 18, and…
Introducing The Fresh Air Academy to “Fill the Gap” in Education
This fall Indian Creek Nature Center will begin offering a new educational program, The Fresh Air Academy, to area preschoolers through fifth graders to “fill the gap” in education and supplement virtual learning this school…
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…
The Sunny Side of the Derecho: Ecological Advantages
By Director of Land Stewardship Jean Wiedenheft If you had asked me in July what the biggest problems facing our forests are, I would have said: Lack of sunlight. There are too many trees…
Preschool Trail Trekkers: September At-Home Activities — Insects!
Our Preschool Trail Trekkers programs offer children and accompanying adults a chance to explore the Nature Center and the outdoors with our Naturalists. To accomodate physical distancing and closures due to storm clean-up, we’ve created…