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[Fwd: [iowa-native-plants] IPN Silent Auction]

  • To: i*@list.uiowa.edu
  • Subject: [iowa-native-plants] IPN Silent Auction
  • From: "mark mcadams" rockman49@hotmail.com>
  • Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 04:58:49 PDT
  • Approved: tolkien
Posted by Glenda Buenger for the Iowa Prairie Network:

The Iowa Prairie Network is sponsoring a silent auction Monday, July 17 at 
the North American Prairie Conference in Mason City.  Donations for the 
auction are needed and will be much appreciated.  Items small and large, 
from caps to art prints, are welcome.  Proceeds will be donated to the Iowa 
Nature Conservancy to help pay for the Lineberry Tract, part of the 
Conservancy’s Broken Kettle Grasslands Preserve in Iowa's Loess Hills.

To donate items, please send them to or contact Sue Irving, 1308 160th Ave., 
Knoxville, Iowa 50138, 515-828-7839, <irving@harenet.net>

In the Mason City/Clear Lake area, please contact Dave and Patty Hansen, 
20230 Cardinal Ave., Clear Lake, Iowa 50428, or call them at 515-357-3665 to 
arrange to have them picked up.

Items can also be hand-delivered to the conference by Monday morning, July 
17.

We hope the silent auction will be fun, as well as raise a lot of money for 
a worthy cause!  Thanks for your help!

About the Lineberry Tract:

The 600-acre Lineberry Tract, located in Plymouth County, makes up the 
northwestern-most part of Broken Kettle, and is a major part of this 
high-quality natural area.  At over 2000 acres, Broken Kettle is the largest 
prairie remnant known in Iowa.  An additional 1100 acres of privately-owned 
land adjacent to the Lineberry Tract is protected through a conservation 
easement with the Knapp Family.  Larger habitat areas can support more 
species of plants and animals, and are more likely to survive natural and 
man-made disasters.

As you know, our Loess Hills prairies are unique because they provide 
habitat to many plant and animal species that typically live much further 
west.  Broken Kettle is home to the most eastern population of the prairie 
rattlesnake (Crotalus viridis) in the United States.  The Loess Hills 
provide refuge to many species of native plants found nowhere else in Iowa.  
The Nature Conservancy’s acquisition of the Lineberry Tract helps protect a 
handsome part of our Hills from development, fill dirt mining, and lack of 
management, while benefiting the local economy via cooperative grazing 
agreements.

For more information about the Lineberry Tract, please call the Iowa Field 
Office of The Nature Conservancy at 515-244-5044.


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