MCCB History
Named after a chief of Ioway Indian tribe.
What is Mahaska County?
This park once had a coal mining railroad intersect the property and now has 18 new holes.
What is Caldwell Park?
This animal is found on the center of the MCCB logo.
What is a wood duck?
What is the name of MCCB's quarterly newsletter?
What is the Prairie Star Newsletter?
Manages 21 separate areas in the county
What is Mahaska County Conservation Board?
This park lies in the flight path of numerous migratory birds including the rarely seen Yellow-crowned Night Heron.
What is Maskunky Marsh?
Mike Coulter once had this position with MCCB.
What is the director?
In 1987, MCCB held an open house for this facility.
What is the Conservation Center at the Russell Wildlife Area?
Headquarters for MCCB and home of many nature exhibits.
What is the Environmental Learning Center?
This 111-acre wilderness area is named after the Latin word for "oak".
What is Quercus?
The first MCCB office was located in the basement of this building.
What is the court house?
Governor Tom Vilsack proclaimed this day on May 25, 2000.
What is John F. Lacey Day?
(This date was the 100th anniversary of the Lacey Bird Act).
A place to camp next to the Des Moines River.
What is Eveland Access Campgrounds?
The Eddyville Dunes Sand Prairie is a 55-acre park that has been a home for this threatened Iowa animal species.
What is an ornate box turtle?
He was the governor in Iowa when the citizens of Mahaska County voted to create the Mahaska County Conservation Board.
Who was Robert D. Ray?
In 1844, William Edmundson became Mahaska County's and Iowa's first person to hold this position.
MCCB was established in this year.
What is 1975?
This park was once a rock quarry and now has 5 fishing ponds.
What is Russell Wildlife Area?
These two water access properties (former county bridges) were MCCB's first land acquisitions.
What were Glendale Access and Cedar Creek Access?
In 1999, an archeological survey was done by the Office of the State Archeologist at this Mahaska County area.
What is Cedar Bluffs State Preserve?
Found artifacts from Early Archaic Period (10,500 yrs ago) and Late Prehistoric period (300 yrs ago).