For anyone interested in the current upsurge of new-flat-water mania in  
Iowa, the story below may be of interest.   It's also bad news  for anyone who 
hoped that 250-plus fake lakes might be enough for  Iowa, and that we might be 
through using tax dollars to drown prairie  remnants, oak savannas, and sedge 
meadows.  
 
Cindy
 
_http://www.dmcityview.com/cover.shtml_ 
(http://www.dmcityview.com/cover.shtml) 
 

Cindy  Hildebrand
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Ames, IA  50010

"The heaviest  timber land can be purchased for from $5.00 to $12.00 per 
acre. There are black  and white walnut, basswood, different kinds of oaks, elms, 
etc....Of the  fertility of the soil -- it can't be excelled. The prairie is 
rolling, a most  magnificent sight." (Arden B. Holcomb describing Boone County, 
Iowa, in  1855.)

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