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7 groups found for the search criteria: Field AdoptSiteHUC Contains 07080206

Group Name: Cedar River Float Foundation
Contact: Jim & Laura Hughes
Contact Address: 3135 140th St.
Charles City, IOWA 50616
Contact Phone: 515-228-7855
Contact Email: jlhughes@myclearwave.net
Activity: Watershed Alliance/Council
Description: Conducts annual 100 mile canoe float in June and ongoing education.

Group Name: Iowa Association of County Conservation Boards
Contact: Don Brazelton
Contact Address: 405 SW 3rd St., Ste 1
Ankeny, IOWA 50021
Contact Phone: 515-963-9582
Contact Email: iaccb@ecity.net
URL: http://george.ecity.net/iaccb
Activity: Watershed Alliance/Council
Description: State association of member county conservation boards (CCBs) that have direct contact with the public they serve in each county. CCBs are established under Iowa Code Chapter 350. The IACCB focuses on member information exchange, education, public relations and legislative development. We have a magazine, the "Board Member", regular and legislative newsletters, a directory of facilities, "Outdoor Adventure Guide", and a "Board Member Handbook".

Group Name: Iowa Citizen Action Network (ICAN)
Contact: Betty Ahrens, Executive Director
Contact Address: 3520 Beaver Ave, Suite D
Des Moines,, IOWA 52240-4003
Contact Phone: (515) 277-5077
Contact Email: BettyAhrens@IowaCAN.org
URL: http://www.iowacan.org
Activity: Watershed Alliance/Council
Description: ICAN is Iowa's largest grass roots consumer and environmental watchdog organization, with more than 13,000 individual members across the state. ICAN is also an alliance of community, religious, labor, senior, farm, environmental and civil rights organizations - a coalition that is working together to raise the living standards and improve the quality of life for all people in Iowa. We are involved year round in research, lobbying, grass roots organizing, public education, and community outreac......More...

Group Name: Izaak Walton League - Linn County Chapter
Contact: Norm Fluegel
Contact Address: 6329 Eastview Ave. S.W.
Cedar Rapids, Iowa 52404-
Contact Phone: 319 396-8675
Activity: Volunteer Monitoring
Description: Linn County Save Our Streams sponsors countywide monitoring using the adopt-a-waterway model. Our League also does its own monitoring of a 5-mile stretch of the Cedar River. Our reports go to the Federal EPA, State DNR, County Health and Conservation departments. Nine other groups make up our county wide monitoring program. They consist of a college, a high school, a boat club, 4 businesses, and individuals. They have 2 to 5 mile sections of the county streams and river adopted. We have been d......More...

Group Name: Marion High School Field Biology/Composition Class
Contact: J. Bates R. Sloan
Contact Address: 675 S. 15th St.
Marion, Iowa 52302-
Contact Phone: 319 377-9891 1165
Contact Email: RSloan@Marion.k12.ia.us
Activity: Volunteer Monitoring
Description: Marion High School monitors a small stream and sends the results to the Iowa Rivers Project. In the last 3 years we have also joined the Natural Resources Conservation Service, and are one of five groups monitoring the two freshwater streams in Linn County

Group Name: North Cedar Middle School Stream Team
Contact: Margaret Sadeghpour-Kramer
Contact Address: 400 Ball St.
Clarence, Iowa 52216
Contact Phone: 319 452-3179
Contact Email: MSKandMK@aol.com
Activity: Volunteer Monitoring
Description: North Cedar Middle School Stream Team takes 6th grade students to Mill Creek monthly during the school year. Students do water quality monitoring, habitat studies, graphing of results, stream and stream bank clean-up, streambank restoration, and tree planting.

Group Name: Watershed Land Trust - Iowa
Contact: Frank Austenfeld
Contact Address: 7211 W. 98th Terr.
Overland Park, KANSAS 66212
Contact Phone: 913-685-4600
Contact Email: frank@watershedinstitute.biz
URL: http://www.WatershedLandTrust.biz
Activity: Restoration/Conservation Project
Description: The Watershed Land Trust (WLT) Is a nonprofit charitable organization which was formed to hold land in fee simple and/or conservation easements in perpetuity. Most Land Trust's mission is to hold vast areas of land typically in large sections. With the ability and expertise to work with any Mitigation Bank or In Lieu Fee arrangement, the WLT is unique in that its mission and focus is to preserve watersheds, waterways, streams, rivers, lakes, wetlands, and adjacent (riparian) corridors and ......More...

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