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Educational Materials
Learn all about Iowa's natural resources with these great informative books. From birds and salamanders to deer and groundwater, there is something for everyone! Profits from the Iowa Nature Store go directly to the improvement of our Iowa state parks.
Woodland in Your Pocket
- To assist your exploration and enjoyment of the woodlands, artist and botanist Mark Müller has provided common and scientific names, blooming dates, heights, and color illustrations for fifty-nine common native midwestern species.
Our Price: $12.00
Prairie in Your Pocket
- By focusing on one ecosystem, Prairie in Your Pocket is perfect for amateurs as an introduction to prairie plant identification. It is the only guide of its kind for identifying tallgrass species. The guide provides color illustrations along with common and scientific names, plant heights, and blooming periods for 114 species.
Our Price: $12.00
Iowa Sportsman’s Atlas
- Complete set of Iowa county maps with locations of all public lands in red. All hard surface, gravel and dirt roads, and railroads, rivers, creeks and lakes are shown. The most accurate guide to all outdoor recreation opportunities in Iowa, including names and phone numbers of all outdoor public officials for each county. Large format 13 1 x 11 1 inches, spiral bound makes easy to use. Updated summer 2006.
Our Price: $21.95
Bicycling Guide
to the Mississippi River Trail- From Itasca State Park in Minnesota, to the southernmost point in Louisiana, on the Gulf of Mexico (a 2000-mile journey!), Bob Robinson guides you along the designated route of the Mississippi River Trail, turn by turn. Whether you are planning on cycling the entire trail across the country or just looking for a weekend adventure, this guidebook includes the services, route directions, bike shops, and maps you need to plan your adventure.
Our Price: $16.95
Capturing Iowa's Seasons
- Renowned Iowa nature photographer Ty Smedes puts the best of his Iowa images together in this beautiful book. Capturing Iowa's Seasons follows the common and uncommon visitors to Iowa's landscape throughout the year. Spring features adorable wildlife babies and migrating songbirds. Summer showcases images of wildflowers and other native prairie inhabitants. Fall features the great snow goose migration, and Winter the bald eagle spectacular. In the final chapter, Ty shares his considerable knowledge and tells us how to take our own great nature photos.
Our Price: $18.95
Iowa Lizards and Turtles
- 20 pages, color photos, habitats and habits by the state's leading experts; softbound.
Our Price: $4.00
Iowa Wildlife Viewing Guide
- 96 page softbound guide will ID and help you get close to, and learn more about all sorts of Iowa critters. Well illustrated and easy to use.
Our Price: $6.00
Iowa - Portrait of the Land
- 90 page coffee table reference book, beautifully featured - describing Iowa's natural history from the beginning to today; referenced for further reading; softbound.
Our Price: $6.00
The Salamanders and Frogs of Iowa
- Learn your "wet" critters. 24 pages, color photos and descriptions; softbound.
Our Price: $4.00
Whitetail - Treasure, Trophy or Trouble?
- Brilliant writing by Larry Stone of Elkander, expert photography by Roger Hill. This 80 page full color softbound history of deer in Iowa is a great read, providing everything you ever wanted to know about whitetails in Iowa.
Our Price: $11.00 $7.00
Iowa's Groundwater Basics
- Beautifully designed geological guide to one of Iowa's most precious resources. 84 fully colored pages; educational and entertaining; softbound.
Our Price: $4.00
The Snakes of Iowa
- 6 page color guide to all the snakes of Iowa.
Our Price: $4.00
Iowa Trout Fishing Guide
- Large, fold-out map providing a detailed guide to trout fishing in northeast Iowa.
Our Price: $2.00
A Guide to the Bats of Iowa
- A guide to the bats of Iowa.
Our Price: $4.00
Billy Goes Hunting
- Billy Goes Hunting by Matthew N. Butler is the story of a young boy whose hunting beliefs have been challenged by his peers.
Our Price: $9.95
Hiking Iowa
- Hiking Iowa features forty-one of the finest trails in the Hawkeye State-from easy day hikes to overnight adventures. With this comprehensive guide, Elizabeth Corcoran Hill provides all the information you need to get the most out of hiking the hills and valleys of Iowa. In this book you'll find hikes suited to every ability, plus detailed descriptions of 41 trails and brief write-ups of 38 more. You'll also find mile-by-mile directional cues and approximate hiking times, hazards, and canine compatibility.
Our Price: $15.95
Deep Nature
- Photographers Linda and Robert Scarth have an incredible eye for that magic moment when small becomes beautiful. Matched with patience and skill, their eye for magic produces dazzling images of Iowa nature up close. Revealing the miniature beauties hidden among the patches of prairie, woodland, and wetland that remain in Iowa's sadly overdeveloped landscape, the seventy-five color photographs in Deep Nature give us a breathtaking cross section of the state's smallest inhabitants.
Our Price: $29.95
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Iowa Outdoors Magazine Recipe Book
- The Iowa Outdoors Magazine recipe book features fish, game and camping recipes from Iowa chefs. From dutch oven pheasant pot pie, venison lasagna, pecan-encrusted catfish, walleye fingers, hunter's pizza, wild sumac lemonade and dozens more, you'll stay satisfied with 42 pages of color photos and recipe ideas. 5" x 8".
Our Price: $5.00
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Birder's Guide to the Iowa and
Cedar River Valleys -
This 62 page full color book features information on dozens of birding sites in Benton, Iowa, Johnson, Linn, Poweshiek and Tama Counties.
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Our Price: $9.95