This is great news!!! Hopefully, this long process will end soon and the 1000 acres will be protected. Thanks for the good news, Charlie Jane Clark ---------- > From: Charlie Winterwood <[log in to unmask]> > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Ferguson-Kistler Tract > Date: Tuesday, August 17, 1999 2:35 PM > > The Telegraph Herald reported this AM that the Iowa Natural Heritage > Foundation > has agreed to a deal with the Kistler family to purchase the 1000 acre > Ferguson- Kistler tract. This will form a contigous wild area of 3000 acres > including portions of Yellow River State Forest and Effigy Mounds National > Monument. If Congress approves the proposed plan, this will be sold to and > become part of the monument. Otherwise it will probably be bought by the Iowa > DNR. > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > To get off the IOWA-TOPICS list, send any message to: > [log in to unmask] > ----------------------------------------------------------------- To get off the IOWA-TOPICS list, send any message to: [log in to unmask]