Posted on 08/26/2017 12:03:08 PM PDT by Aliska
RAGBRIE went through my home town again this year. Folks have a couple of lots on the south side that were full of tents again this year. Cresco.
Is that first photo link in your post the Gulf of Iowa?
Yep.
Lots of fun.
Until the Potato Buzzards came.
I still remember my cousin Moe screaming as the Potato Buzzards carried him away and made a nest out of him and some baling twine.
We found him next morning.
Just yell “Is that a Potato Buzzard?”, and he runs off screaming.
It’s kind of fun.
So you must also be privy to carrot trolls?...
Men get lost?? Please!
Men are never lost. We are exploring.
Take a ride over 441 and just head off exploring towards 129.
I would never let a Carrot Troll in my privy.
They can stink up a bathroom worse than Obama.
LOL! Probably true to some extent. We love you, regardless.
Thinking that there is wilderness in Iowa was there first mistake.
Iowa and wilderness does not compute
You live in Toadsuck?!
The missus and I have long dreamed of vacationing there!
They are MORONS.
So it seems:
Ecology and environment
Main article: Environment of Iowa
Iowa’s natural vegetation is tallgrass prairie and savanna in upland areas, with dense forest and wetlands in flood plains and protected river valleys, and pothole wetlands in northern prairie areas.
Most of Iowa is used for agriculture; crops cover 60% of the state, grasslands (mostly pasture and hay with some prairie and wetland) cover 30%, and forests cover 7%; urban areas and water cover another 1% each.
There is a dearth of natural areas in Iowa; less than 1% of the tallgrass prairie that once covered most of Iowa remains intact; only about 5% of the state’s prairie pothole wetlands remain, and most of the original forest has been lost.[25] As of 2005 Iowa ranked 49th of U.S. states in public land holdings.[26] Threatened or endangered animals in Iowa include the interior least tern, piping plover, Indiana bat, pallid sturgeon, the Iowa Pleistocene land snail, Higgins’ eye pearly mussel, and the Topeka shiner. Endangered or threatened plants include western prairie fringed orchid, eastern prairie fringed orchid, Mead’s milkweed, prairie bush clover, and northern wild monkshood.
The explosion in the number of high-density livestock facilities in Iowa has led to increased rural water contamination and a decline in air quality. Other factors negatively affecting Iowa’s environment include the extensive use of older coal-fired power plants, fertilizer and pesticide runoff from crop production, and diminishment of the Jordan Aquifer.
Wikipedia
Unfortunately, no.
Oh, how I long to be at Grandpa’s Catfish House, stealing their posters and making the floor wet.
They have great Hush Puppies and Grandpa does an impression of Queen Elizabeth that cracks everyone up!
“I’m Queen Elizabeth! Look at me! I’m walking around!”
I guess it’s funnier in person.
Have a very SF day.
Doodie!
Remember the group of Women that thought a natural River they were floating in went in a circle like a Lazy River at a Water Park?
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On the “yellow River?
Where was I.P.Freely?
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They obviously had no concept of map scale.
They probably had a small copy of the map...
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