The black bear is native to Iowa but was hunted to extinction in the mid-1800s. Nearly 200 years later, the tide is turning as Wisconsin and Minnesota black bear populations expand southward.

The research also suggests that deer and earthworms have played a key role in helping garlic mustard thrive by turning up the ...

Your Grampa and Gramma’s Farm” program, presented by Humanities Iowa speaker Rich Tyler, will be hosted by the Blakesburg Historical Preservation Society at 1:30 p.m. Sunday, June 1 at the ...

Black bear sightings used to be a lot more common around here, as they used to be native to Iowa, but were about wiped out by the late 1800s as Iowa was being settled. However, over the past five ...