FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                   CONTACT:
April 19, 2002                                      Erin Jordahl, 515-277-8868


Iowa Earth Day Activities Planned
Help Take Care of Everyone's Favorite Planet

Des Moines, IA:  The Iowa Chapter of the Sierra Club has several Earth Day
activities planned throughout the state.  Iowans are encouraged to get
outside April 20 through 22 and help take care of everyone's favorite planet.
 Although Earth Day is officially on Monday, April 22, most activities are
planned for Saturday, April 20.

In Northeast Iowa, the White Pine Group of the Sierra Club is hosting a
prairie rescue at the Mines of Spain Recreation Area in Dubuque.  A coalition
of Iowa conservation groups will help "rescue" prairie sites from 9 AM to 1
PM on Saturday, April 20.  Volunteers are asked to meet at 9 AM at the E.B.
Lyons Nature Preserve and to bring tools for brush cutting.  For more
information, call Charles Winterwood at 563-588-2783.

In the Quad Cities, the Eagle View Group of the Sierra Club will clean up its
River Mile of the Mississippi River in Moline, IL.  Volunteers are asked to
meet at the Celebration Belle parking lot at 9 AM on Saturday, April 20.  For
more information, call Jerry Neff at 563-332-5373.

In Central Iowa, the Central Iowa Group of the Sierra Club will participate
in several events sponsored by the Iowa Department of Natural Resources
(DNR).  Earth Day Prairie Rescue events are scheduled from 9 AM to 1 PM on
Saturday, April 20, in various locations in Polk, Jasper, Webster, Guthrie,
Warren, and Marion counties.  Go to the Iowa DNR website at
www.state.ia.us/dnr/volunteer/prairie.html  or call 515-281-5918 for more
information.

For more information about Earth Day events sponsored by the Iowa Chapter
Sierra Club, call 515-277-8868 or go to
www.sierraclub.org/earthday/action/ia/

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Erin Jordahl
Director, Iowa Chapter Sierra Club
3839 Merle Hay Road, Suite 280
Des Moines, IA 50310
515-277-8868
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