By Vance Polton Eighty- two years ago back on February 15,1942 the Iowa Conservation Commission published the first edition of the “Iowa Conservationist”. The Conservation Commission’s purpose for creating this monthly publication or as they called...
By Vance Polton Today, I thought we would take note of the anniversary of the passing of John Boepple. On January 30, 1912 John Boepple, founder of the pearl button industry in Muscatine and...
By Vance Polton I thought, today, we would head on up to Dickinson County and back to 1916 and take a look at the new fish hatchery under construction there. It’s just about finished...
By Vance Polton Today we are headed back to January of 1897 and the opening of the Manchester National Fish Hatchery. While for the most part the construction of the hatchery was completed in 1896, it...
By Vance Polton I thought today we would travel back to October 1874 and take a little trip across the Wapsi River to visit the new Hatching House just upriver of Anamosa. Attached is a poster...