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Overall, populations appear to have increased in Iowa during the Archaic, despite a changing climate. During this time American Indians transitioned from highly mobile hunters and gatherers with large ranges towards a focus on local resources and ecosystems. Domesticated plants appeared in Iowa towards the end of the Archaic. [1]
The historic district encompasses the buildings, farm fields, and cemetery associated with the home. The first burial in the cemetery, located on the southwest corner of the property, was in 1877. The graves are marked with simple stone markers. The last burial was in 2008. Farm fields surround the buildings and extend to the north.
Plesiosaurs lived in this sea and left behind fossils in several regions of Iowa. [11] Northwestern Iowa's quartzite rocks may have attracted long-necked elasmosaurs as a source of gastroliths. [12] Outside of Iowa the same deposits have preserved animals like mosasaurs and pterosaurs. [11]
Fish Farm Mounds State Preserve is a 3-acre (12,000 m 2) archaeological mound group containing Native American burials in the U.S. state of Iowa.It is located within the larger Fish Farms Mounds Wildlife area, a state owned hunting area a few miles south of New Albin, just inland from the Upper Mississippi River in Allamakee County.
The historic district is 1.2 acres (0.49 ha). The Feller family farm was once 350 acres (140 ha) but most of it has been sold to other farmers and the current farm is 40 acres (16 ha). [3] Feller sold the farmstead in 1955 and it is currently owned by Dr. Jose Angel since about 1994. [4] [5]
The whale's remains suggest it's a smaller relative of Basilosaurus cetoides, which lived along Alabama's coast 34-40 million years ago.
"provides 3-year land use agreements to area farmers with different farming experiences and scales. The use agreements include land, irrigation water, and storage. LAP tenants sell their produce at local farmers markets, grocery stores, and through Community Supported Agriculture (CSA)." - Official Johnson County Historic Poor Farm website. [8]
The Iowa Farmers Union — along with 18 national ag and policy organizations — is calling on Iowa and federal officials to block the pending sale of OCI Global's nitrogen fertilizer plant at ...