Tag: Iowa

Free Download Kathleen Woida, "Iowa’s Remarkable Soils: The Story of Our Most Vital Resource and How We Can Save It "
English | ISBN: 1609387503 | 2021 | 256 pages | EPUB, PDF | 64 MB + 21 MB
Sometimes called "black gold," Iowa’s deep, rich soils are a treasure that formed over thousands of years under the very best of the world’s grasslands-the tallgrass prairie. The soils are diverse and complex and hold within them a record not only of Iowa’s prehistoric past, but also of the changes that took place after settlers utterly transformed the land, as well as the ongoing adjustments taking place today due to climate change. In language that is scientifically sound but accessible to the layperson, Kathleen Woida explains how soils formed and have changed over centuries and millennia in the land between two rivers.

Free Download James J. Dinsmore, "Iowa’s Changing Wildlife: Three Decades of Gain and Loss "
English | ISBN: 1609389255 | 2023 | 294 pages | PDF | 7 MB
Much has changed with Iowa’s wildlife in the years 1990 to 2020. Some species such as Canada goose, wild turkey, and white-tailed deer that once were rare in Iowa are now common, and others like sandhill crane, river otter, and trumpeter swan are becoming increasingly abundant. Iowa’s Changing Wildlife provides an up-to-date, scientifically based summary of changes in the distribution, status, conservation needs, and future prospects of about sixty species of Iowa’s birds and mammals whose populations have increased or decreased in the past three decades. Readers will learn more about familiar species, become acquainted with the status of less familiar species, and find out how many of the species around them have fared during this era of transformation.

Free Download Robert F. Sumrall – USS Iowa (BB-61)
Pictorial Histories | 1986 | ISBN: 0933126778 | English | 64 pages | PDF | 108.09 MB
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