Preserves Project

An Exploration of Iowa

Iowa is home to 80+ state preserves, and I'm on a quest to visit all of them. Below you'll find a gallery of snapshots from my travels and snippets of the essays that accompany them. My state preserve quest is multi-fold: to get to know this beautiful, fragmented, diverse landscape, to discover what these places mean to me, and to learn stories about the people who study, love, and protect these "wild" places. If you have a story about a state preserve, want to take me on a tour, or know someone who would, please don't hesitate to contact me.