Tag: Iowa

Free Download Sylvan T. Runkel, "Wildflowers and Other Plants of Iowa Wetlands, 2nd edition "
English | ISBN: 1609382854 | 2015 | 400 pages | PDF | 158 MB
Originally published in 1999, Wildflowers and Other Plants of Iowa Wetlands was the first book to focus on the beauty and diversity of the wetland plants that once covered 1.5 million acres of Iowa. Now this classic of midwestern natural history is back in print with a new format and all-new photographs, just as Iowa’s wetlands are getting the respect and attention they deserve.

Free Download Dean M Roosa, "The Raptors of Iowa "
English | ISBN: 1609381661 | 2013 | 118 pages | PDF | 2 MB
This long-awaited collection of James LandenbergerOCOs paintings of Iowa birds of prey presents thirty-two full-page, full-color species, from the common turkey vulture to the red-shouldered hawk of Mississippi River woodlands to the little northern saw-whet owl. Four naturalists who have devoted their lives to conserving wilderness habitats and species have written essays to complement the paintings.

Free Download Peter J. van der Linden, "Shrubs and Vines of Iowa "
English | ISBN: 1609383974 | 2016 | 232 pages | EPUB, PDF | 49 MB + 24 MB
Shrubs and vines, often literally overshadowed by trees, also receive much less attention than their taller neighbors, and yet they are very important elements of the region’s natural landscape. A guide to these interesting and useful plants, this book identifies all 150 shrubs and vines native to Iowa, along with frequently seen naturalized ones. Here you’ll find the widely distributed buttonbush, the distinctive pagoda dogwoods, sumacs with their striking fall foliage, the adaptable ninebark, the attractive grape honeysuckle, the many species of Rubus and wild grapes that provide food for birds and animals, willows with their graceful promise of spring, and the diverse viburnums.

Free Download Peter J. van der Linden, "Forest and Shade Trees of Iowa Ed 3"
English | ISBN: 1587299941 | 2011 | 456 pages | PDF | 26 MB
Back in print at last in a third edition, the classic Forest and Shade Trees of Iowa now has a wealth of full-color photographs and updated, reorganized information that will please both new and returning readers.

Free Download Carl Kurtz, "A Year of Iowa Nature: Discovering Where We Live "
English | ISBN: 1609382404 | 2014 | 148 pages | PDF | 8 MB
Every Sunday evening for almost ten years, Iowa photographer and naturalist Carl Kurtz has e-mailed a photo and an extended caption to hundreds of outdoor enthusiasts. Engaging and informative, the photos focus on the world around and away from his tallgrass prairie homeplace: snow buntings in a blizzard, maple leaves in fall, migrating snow geese and red-winged blackbirds and monarchs, prairie spiderworts in spring bloom, leopard frogs loafing on waterlily leaves, northern flickers feeding young, and all the inhabitants and moods of the passing seasons. Now, in A Year of Iowa Nature, he presents fifty-five of his favorite photos along with an evocative introduction that urges us to go forth and discover the beauty in our own backyards.

Free Download Cornelia F. Mutel, "Tending Iowa’s Land: Pathways to a Sustainable Future "
English | ISBN: 1609388739 | 2022 | 301 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 1468 KB
2023 Midwest Book Awards in Nonfiction – Nature, winner

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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Free Download High Ground Coward (Iowa Poetry Prize) By Alicia Mountain
2018 | 100 Pages | ISBN: 1609385454 | PDF | 1 MB
Alicia Mountain’s urgent and astonishing debut collection maps a new queer landscape through terrain alive and sensual, defiant and inviting. With a voice that beckons while it howls, Mountain nimbly traverses lyric, confessional, and narrative modes, leaving groundbreaking tracks for us to follow. High Ground Coward offers fists full of soil, leftovers for breakfast, road trip as ritual, twins of lovers and twins of ourselves. This world blooms with hunger-inducing detail, its speakers asking us to consider what it will take to satisfy our own appetites while simultaneously trying to nourish one another. "Ferocious, even the softest part," Mountain shows us "a way to fall in love with wanting," leaving us "ravenous, but gradually."Bearing witness to identity formation in solitude and communion, High Ground Coward is an almanac of emotional and relational seasons. Mountain’s speakers question the meaning of inheritance, illness, violence, mythology, and family architecture. Whether Mountain is at work revealing the divinity of doubt, the entanglement of devotion, or the dominion that place holds over us, High Ground Coward heralds a thrilling poetic debut.From "Scavenger"We three eat food and are in love. This is the easy way to saythere are stores beneath the floor.Potatoes and shallots,hard-necked garlic streaked purple,jars beside jars, themselveseach staving globes of suction.Preservation, a guardian hunger.In the evening I whisper to the boiled beet,like a naked organ in my flushed hand:You are ground blood,you are new born,you have never been nothing-thawfruit seedflower greenstart rootbulbhandpull shedscrub mouthsweetand again.