Editor’s note: Here is your chance to tell your story about your team, your school or your favorite player. If you’d like to join The Gazette’s growing list of high school contributors, contact J.R. Ogden at jr.ogden@thegazette.com By Jacob Doyle, Monticello senior MONTICELLO – Imagine a place you can be truly free. Imagine paradise. For [...]
continue »
Editor’s note: Rick Hollis of rural North Liberty, is past president and newsletter editor for the Iowa City Bird Club. By Rick Hollis, community contributor Some days this year, when the snow was falling, it seemed spring was not coming. But it is if one looks for the right things. Geese pour north on days [...]
continue »
The Iowa House approved a measure Wednesday to expand crossbow hunting of deer by allowing residents to use crossbows during the late hunting season, from Dec. 17 to Jan. 10. They would not be required to purchase a separate crossbow hunting license. Under current law, only muzzleloader and archery hunters can hunt deer during that [...]
continue »
Cutting trees to save forests may seem paradoxical, but biologists are doing just that on islands in the Upper Mississippi River. “By cutting trees on the edges of islands, we hope to save the islands themselves and all the other trees growing on them,” said Rich King, manager of the McGregor District of the Upper [...]
continue »
Planting radishes could be the key to boosting pheasant numbers in Iowa, according to a wildlife researcher who spoke to lawmakers Thursday. It likely will take more than farmers planting a winter cover crop of radishes to increase pheasant numbers to where they were 50 years ago, but it’s one of the strategies Willie Suchy [...]
continue »WILLIAMS, Minn. — You’d hate to think that experiencing ambient air temperature of 40 degrees below zero would be the highlight of four days’ ice fishing in the “Walleye Capital of the World.” But for me and six fishing buddies, the memory of our unprecedented exposure to such frigid air will outlast our recollections of [...]
continue »One month into 2013, it’s time for a checkup. As in, how are those New Year resolutions going? You know the ones — losing a few pounds gained over the holidays, getting back in shape, starting a new challenge? I’ve discovered a couple of things during my recent excursions on some frigid mornings, always a [...]
continue »CEDAR RAPIDS — Dan Solomon’s beagles, who bark only when they smell a rabbit, bayed nonstop for four hours Sunday morning in the Cedar River badlands just southeast of town. Barreling at full cry through horseweeds and multiflora rose, Sadie, 11, the leader of the pack, and her proteges, Storm and Jasmine, hounded scores of [...]
continue »
Problem: Johnson County has 24 acres of dead and dying invasive species-infested pine trees and little if any money to clear the environmental wasteland for productive use. Problem: The University of Iowa’s Sustainability Office is well short of its goal to meet 40 percent of the institution’s energy needs through sustainable sources by 2020. Solution: [...]
continue »
Editor’s note: Rick Hollis of rural North Liberty, is past president and newsletter editor for the Iowa City Bird Club. By Rick Hollis, community contributor Winter bird-watching can be very exciting. Last year we saw a snowy owl irruption (yes that is spelled right). An irruption is the unusual occurrence of higher than normal numbers [...]
continue »
