Title of episode from disc label. Original broadcast: 11/27/09. Program host and interviewer, Paul Yeager. In-studio guests: Dan Kaercher. Video segment appearances: Mike Gipple, Director, Mahaska County Conservation Board; Deborah Lewis, Curator, Ada Hayden Herbarium, Iowa State University; Susanne Hickey, The Nature Conservancy; Ted Smith, President, Earth Lodge Society; Jim Baylor, Thurman, Iowa resident and Loess Hills landowner; David Carter, USDA, Natural Resources Conservation Service; Rich Maaske, Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship; Ed Cambridge, Woodfield subdivision manager/builder; Mark Shoemaker, Executive Director, Pottawattamie County Conservation; Peter J. van der Linden, Executive Director, Iowa Lakeside Lab; Jelena Andrejic, student from Belgrade, Serbia; Sarah Spaulding, U.S. Geological Survey; Daryl Smith, University of Northern Iowa; Mike Lannoo, Indiana University School of Medicine; Bill Norris, Western New Mexico University.
Summary:
Video profile of John F. Lacey, Iowa congressman of the late 19th century who was "one of the nation's founding fathers of conservation"; Charles Reuben Keyes, Iowa archaeologist who was instrumental in having Effigy Mounds declared a national monument; Ada Hayden, Iowa naturalist and the first woman to earn a PhD at Iowa State University; Margo K. Frankel, first chairwoman of the Iowa Conservation Commission. Second video segment on the Loess Hills in western Iowa. Third video segment on Iowa Lakeside Laboratory.
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