By Mary Fairchild Maquoketa River Trail; 6/15/14. In June my two daughters joined me for a river clean-up and local archaeology paddle on the Maquoketa River with Iowa archaeologist Elizabeth Reetz. There are two forks of the Maquoketa River that meander through Jackson County for about 50 miles and meet up just north of the…
Category: Iowa
Mid-America Paleontology Society Annual Fossil Show Moves to Iowa
By Mary Fairchild Is it dinosaur? This fossil was found in gravel in northwest Iowa. Flickr Picture Set The huge continental glaciers that advanced and retreated across Iowa during the Ice Age picked up large volumes of rock and other sediments as they moved across the continent. Today, reworked and transported Cretaceous fossils, which underlie large areas of the…
Paddling Lake Okoboji: Once Considered One of Only Three Blue Lakes in the World
(Arnold’s Park; Set on Flickr) West Okoboji Lake is located to the south and west of the City of Okoboji and northwest of the City of Arnold’s Park in northwest Iowa. Last week I was able to paddle some of my favorite areas of the lake where we frequently vacation with my husband’s family. Vacation…