List of Iowa State Preserves
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Iowa State Preserves tend to be small parcels of land with some historic or environmental significance. The arrangement is alphabetic. This is based on information found at a website maintained by the Iowa Department of Natural Resources
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Iowa Department of Natural Resources
The Iowa Department of Natural Resources is a department/agency of the U.S. state of Iowa charged with maintaining state parks and forests; protecting the environment; and managing energy, fish, wildlife, land resources, and water resources of Iowa.The Mission Statement: To conserve and enhance...
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- A.F. Miller State Preserve
- Ames High Prairie State Preserve
- Anderson Prairie State Preserve
- Behrens Pond and Woodlands State Preserve
- Berry Woods State Preserve
- Bird Hill State Preserve
- Bixby State PreserveBixby State PreserveBixby State Preserve is located in southwestern Clayton County, Iowa, about three miles north of Edgewood, Iowa. It is operated by the Iowa Department of Natural Resources....
- Bluffton Fir Stand State Preserve
- Brush Creek Canyon State Preserve
- Brushy Creek State Preserve
- Cameron Woods State Preserve
- Casey's Paha State Preserve
- Catfish Creek State Preserve
- Cayler Prairie State Preserve
- Cedar Bluffs State Preserve
- Cedar Hills Sand Prairie State Preserve
- Cheever Lake State Preserve
- Clay Prairie State Preserve
- Claybanks Forest State Preserve
- Cold Water Spring State Preserve
- Crossman Prairie State Preserve
- Decorah Ice Cave State PreserveDecorah Ice Cave State PreserveDecorah Ice Cave State Preserve has one of the largest glacières in the Midwestern United States. It consists of a parcel of land at the edge of Barbara Barnhart VanPeenen Memorial Park in the northern portion of the city of Decorah, in Winnesheik County, Iowa.Ice caves are one characteristic of...
- Dinesen Prairie State Preserve
- Doolittle Prairie State Preserve
- Fallen Rock State Preserve
- Fish Farm Mounds State PreserveFish Farm Mounds State PreserveFish Farm Mounds State Preserve is a archaeological mound group containing Native American burials in Iowa. It is located within the larger Fish Farms Mounds Wildlife area, a state owned hunting area a few miles south of New Albin, just inland from the Upper Mississippi River in Allamakee...
- Five Ridge Prairie State Preserve
- Fleming Woods State Preserve
- Fort Atkinson State PreserveFort Atkinson State PreserveFort Atkinson State Preserve is a state preserve of Iowa, USA, containing the remnants of Fort Atkinson, a U.S. Army frontier post created to keep the peace between various Native American tribes as well as prevent white settlers from encroaching on Indian lands.-History:The 1830 Treaty of Prairie...
- Freda Haffner Kettlehole State Preserve
- Gitchie Manitou State PreserveGitchie Manitou State PreserveGitchie Manitou is a small nature preserve in Lyon County, in the extreme northwestern corner of Iowa just northwest of Granite, Iowa, or just southeast of Sioux Falls, South Dakota...
- Hanging Bog State Preserve
- Hardin City Woodland State Preserve
- Hartley Fort State PreserveHartley Fort State PreserveHartley Fort State Preserve is a Iowa state preserve located on the Upper Iowa River in the Driftless Area, in Allamakee County of Iowa.-Geography:...
- Hayden Prairie State PreserveHayden Prairie State PreserveThe Hayden Prairie State Preserve is a tallgrass prairie located in Howard County, Iowa. The nearest towns are Chester and Lime Springs, both close to the northern border of the state of Iowa...
- Hoffman Prairie State Preserve
- Indian Bluffs Primitive Area State Preserve
- Indian Fish Trap State Preserve
- Kalsow Prairie State Preserve
- Kish-Ke-Kosh Prairie State Preserve
- Lamson Woods State Preserve
- Liska-Stanek Prairie State Preserve
- Little Maquoketa River Mounds State PreserveLittle Maquoketa River Mounds State PreserveThe Little Maquoketa River Mounds State Preserve is an Iowa state owned archaeological site and natural area located within the city of Sageville on U.S. Highway 52....
- Malanaphy Springs State Preserve
- Malchow Mounds State Preserve
- Manikowski Prairie State Preserve
- Mann Wilderness Area State Preserve
- Marietta Sand Prairie State Preserve
- Mericle Woods State Preserve
- Merrill A. Stainbrook State Preserve
- Merritt Forest State Preserve
- Montauk State Preserve State Preserve
- Mossy Glen State Preserve
- Mount Pisgah Cemetery State Preserve
- Mount Talbot State Preserve
- Nestor Stiles Prairie State Preserve
- Ocheyedan Mound State Preserve
- Old State Quarry State Preserve
- Palisades-Downs State Preserve
- Pecan Grove State Preserve
- Pellett Woods State Preserve
- Pilot Grove State Preserve
- Pilot Knob State Preserve
- Retz Woods State Preserve
- Roberts Creek State PreserveRoberts Creek State PreserveRoberts Creek State Preserve is located in rural Clayton County, Iowa, in Wagner Township, near St. Olaf, Iowa, and a few miles north of Elkader, Iowa...
- Rock Creek Island State Preserve
- Rock Island State Preserve
- Roggman Boreal Slopes State Preserve
- Rolling Thunder Prairie State Preserve
- Saint James Lutheran Church State Preserve
- Savage Woods State Preserve
- Searryl's Cave State Preserve
- Sheeder Prairie State Preserve
- Silver Lake Fen State Preserve
- Silvers-Smith Woods State Preserve
- Slinde Mounds State PreserveSlinde Mounds State PreserveSlinde Mounds State Preserve contains ancient Indian mound burials in some hill prairie. About in extent, it is on a terrace above Canoe Creek, a tributary of the Upper Iowa River, and is approximately six miles from Waukon, Iowa in Hanover Township, in Allamakee County.The state acquired the land...
- Starr's Cave State Preserve
- Steele Prairie State Preserve
- Stinson Prairie State Preserve
- Strasser Woods State Preserve
- Sylvan Runkel State Preserve
- Toolesboro Mounds State Preserve
- Turin Loess Hills State Preserve
- Turkey River Mounds State Preserve
- White Pine Hollow State Preserve
- Williams Prairie State Preserve
- Wittrock Indian Village State Preserve
- Woodland Mounds State Preserve
- Woodman Hollow State PreserveWoodman Hollow State PreserveWoodman Hollow State Preserve is located in Webster County, Iowa, miles southeast of Fort Dodge and northwest of Lehigh. The preserve is a satellite area of Dolliver Memorial State Park, located 2 miles to the south...
- Woodthrush State Preserve