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Iowa's charming lakeside city near Des Moines is a fast-growing Midwest escape for outdoor fun

This Des Moines-area destination offers two lakes, multiple biking and hiking trails, golf courses, and more outdoor fun fit ...
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Paddlefish to be reintroduced to Iowa Great Lakes

SPIRIT LAKE, Iowa (KCAU) — The Iowa Department of Natural Resources has been working to reintroduce what biologists call a living fossil: the paddlefish. “They appeared in the fossil record about 25 ...
The Journal

Iowa awards $450,000 to help state lakes

The Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship and the Iowa Department of Natural Resources announced Aug. 5 that nine Iowa soil and water conservation district partners will receive $451,176 ...
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If you have a fear of deep bodies of water, don't visit these 9 Iowa lakes

One of Iowa’s deepest lakes is nearly as deep as a football field is wide. But which? Summers in Iowa mean beating the heat through splash pads, water parks and cooling off at the beaches of Iowa ...
KTIV

Iowa Great Lakes businessman Butch Parks dies at 81

SPIRIT LAKE, Iowa (KTIV) - The Iowa Great Lakes community is remembering Leo “Butch” Parks, a longtime lakes-area businessman and founder of Parks Marina. He died Tuesday, Jan. 6, at the age of 81.