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(Des Moines, IA) -- With spring on the horizon, the Iowa Department of Natural Resources is scheduling a series of prescribed burns in Eastern Iowa.
The goal is to restore native plants, get rid of invasive ones, all while improving the natural habitat.
The burns are planned in the Iowa River Unit in Benton, Cedar, Iowa, Johnson, Linn, and Tama counties.
Here are a list of dates and locations:
- Clinton County
- Barber Creek
- Goose Lake
- Syracuse
- Wapsi
- Clayton County
- Bloody Run
- Cow Branch
- Ensign Hollow
- Volga
- Leonard
- Sny Magill
- Big Springs
- Delaware County
- Buffalo Creek
- Backbone State Park
- Manchester Hatchery
- Ram Hollow
- Dubuque County
- Whitewater
- White Pine Hollow
- Jackson County
- Big Mill Creek
- Green Island
- Jones County
- Muskrat Slough
- Oxford Junction
- Scott County
- Crow Creek
- Lost Grove Lake
- McCausland
- Princeton
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