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Vote “Yes” on November 2

Diagonal Pond at Swamp White Oak Preserve in Muscatine County © Jen Filapiak/TNC

Close your eyes for a moment. Think about taking a moments due to a lack of investment in conservation practices.
refreshing dip in a lake on a hot summer afternoon. The “We think of Iowa as an inherently clean place,” says Filipiak,
sunrise on the Cedar River. Trekking across the corn stubble but the facts tell a different story. She cites scientific studies
with your yellow ‘Lab’ on a crisp fall day in search of a bird. showing that:

On November 2, Iowans will have a historic opportunity to • Over 500 bodies of water in
ensure that these special moments and the places where we can all 99 counties are polluted.
experience them are preserved for our children, grandchildren
and countless generations yet to come. On the ballot will be the • Iowa loses an average of 5
Iowa’s Water and Land Legacy Amendment, which will provide tons of soil per acre each
an important means to protect drinking water and provide year due to erosion.
funding to clean up our lakes and rivers.
• Iowa will lose more than
Jen Filipiak, the Conservancy’s Iowa director of conservation 230,000 acres of habitat by
science, states that Iowa is at serious risk of losing these special 2012, reducing
opportunities for
conservation and hunting.

(continued on page three)

From the
State Director

Sharp-eyed Update readers will Otter family along Cedar River in Muscatine County © Ryan Rasmussen
notice that my photo often
includes my daughter, Marley Grace. I began my ride by dipping my back tire into the Missouri
There is a reason for this. I’m trying River. Seven days later, I dipped my front tire into the
to point out that conservation is Mississippi. Together, these massive rivers reach from Alberta
really about the future and our in western Canada to upstate New York and drain 41 percent
children’s and grandchildren’s legacy. of the continental U.S. The rivers flow past Iowa gaining more
volume, but much of the water we are adding to these great
That’s why The Nature Conservancy rivers isn’t clean. So important is this issue downstream from
us, that the Conservancy chapters in Louisiana and Mississippi
Sean McMahon and his is leading the Iowa’s Water and Land have pledged financial support to Iowa’s Water and Land
daughter, Marley Grace © Legacy campaign, the largest Legacy, which would provide millions in new funding for water
Rebecca McMahon conservation ballot initiative in the quality each year. Despite the ongoing crisis surrounding the
Gulf oil spill, these states understand how important our
nation this year. We chair a coalition of more than 120 efforts to improve water quality in Iowa are to the entire
Mississippi River Basin and Gulf of Mexico.
organizations representing more than 300,000 Iowans
If we’re successful, Iowa’s Water and Land Legacy would triple
dedicated to increasing funding for conservation and outdoor existing state funding for conservation. That would be nothing
short of transformational for our work to conserve prairies and
recreation here in Iowa. restore rivers in this state. It would also help to ensure that
future generations are able to enjoy nature and outdoor
Back in August, I rode my bike across Iowa as part of the recreation opportunities in much the same way we did when we
RAGBRAI event to help promote the Iowa’s Water and Land were kids. Our children and grandchildren’s future is in your
Legacy campaign. Iowans have a chance to make history this hands. I urge you to support and vote “Yes” for the Iowa’s
November 2 by voting for this constitutional amendment. If Water and Land Legacy ballot initiative.
we’re successful, it will lead to $150 million in new funding each
year for clean water, soil conservation, enhancing fish and Sean McMahon,
wildlife habitat and restoring wetlands and floodplains to help State Director
protect against future flooding. Flooding, as we all know, was a
serious issue again this year.

Conservancy, Alliant Energy Continue Leah Rodenburg and Terry Harmon of Alliant Energy present a check to Matt Fisher,
Cedar River Efforts to Ease Flooding Sean McMahon and Jan Glendening of The Nature Conservancy © Mark Hainey/TNC

Alliant Energy Foundation representatives presented a
second check for $100,000 to The Conservancy on Aug. 6
at the Board of Trustees meeting. This generous gift will
help fund ongoing efforts to restore floodplains and help
reduce the unnatural flooding Eastern Iowa has
experienced in recent years. Matt Fisher, the Conservancy’s
eastern Iowa project director, said the increasing frequency
of flooding can in part be attributed to land use changes
that increased the volume of water in Iowa rivers.

2 Iowa Update

Our Historic Opportunity

Official Ballot
Summary Language

Adopts Iowa’s Water and Land
Legacy Amendment which
creates a dedicated trust fund for
the purposes of protecting and
enhancing water quality and
natural areas in the State
including parks, trails, and
fish and wildlife habitat and
conserving agricultural soils in
this State.

Merganser along Pike Run Creek © Ryan Rasmussen

Protecting Iowa’s Future (continued from page one)

Filipiak notes that Iowa ranks 47th “The amendment couldn’t come at a Bald eagle in Muscatine County © Ryan Rasmussen
out of 50 states in conservation more urgent time,” says Filipiak. “We
spending. “It’s terribly short-sighted need to protect the natural resources Vote “Yes” on Question 1
but what happens too often is that that fuel our economy – such as soil to protect our land and
conservation budgets are an easy place and water – to attract top businesses for future development
to cut spending in difficult economic and keep Iowa as one of the best
times. The long-term cost of low places in the nation to live.” How You Can help!!
conservation funding means • Vote!
conditions will continue to get worse, “When you consider that agriculture • Call your Holiday greeting card
not better and Iowa can’t afford that.” is the backbone of Iowa’s economy, it’s
absolutely vital that we begin to solve list and urge your friends to
Iowa’s Water and Land Legacy our erosion issues,” said Filipiak. vote “Yes.”
Amendment will protect the forests, “Trust fund revenue will be dedicated • Donate to the campaign at
grasslands and wetlands that provide to soil conservation and watershed yesiowa.org.
critical wildlife habitat and vital protection programs administered • Drive people in your
services such as floodwater storage to by such neighborhood to their
Iowa cities. “Our land-use change to organizations polling place.
annual row crops – coupled with as the Iowa
increased precipitation at the very Department Fall 2010 3
time Iowa fields are empty or ‘black’ – of Agriculture
has made annual flooding an and Land
increasing problem.” She points to Stewardship,”
this summer’s devastating flooding in she adds.
Northern Iowa as an example.

A Lesson from History

Recapturing a Priceless Heritage

Tallgrass prairie is the most decimated Some wonder about the fuss over prairie Daryl Smith ©TPC photo
ecosystem in North America. loss. They say, “It is really pretty simple,
States with large areas of tillable soils, we destroyed Iowa’s prairie so people sustenance for humankind. The Nature
like Iowa and Illinois, have lost nearly all could eat “It had to be, so what.” They Conservancy’s prairie projects in Loess
of their pre-settlement prairie. are unaware that prairie is a part of our Hills, Grand River Grasslands and the
The conversion of tallgrass prairie to biological, cultural, and economic Little Sioux River Valley provide an
cropland was extensive and rapid. In heritage, a multi-faceted national excellent opportunity to return prairie to
Iowa, the transition of the landscape treasure. Obviously, a greater the landscape. These areas contain a
from prairie to agriculture took 70 years, understanding and appreciation of number of prairie remnants of varying
one lifetime. tallgrass prairie is needed. degrees of quality. Public and private
Society was slow to realize that we had groups can re-create prairie on a
so modified the landscape that tallgrass To ultimately really know and landscape scale by working together to
prairie could not recover without human understand prairie wilderness, members preserve and manage high quality
assistance. When prairie preservation of our society must walk in it and remnants, restore remnants in different
began in Iowa near the middle of the experience it. How then, can we increase stages of degradation, and then
twentieth century, conservationists the availability and accessibility of these reconstruct prairie corridors through
believed that preservation alone was essential examples of tallgrass prairie to intervening areas to connect remnants.
sufficient to recover and retain members of our society? Prairie Funding from Iowa’s Water and Land
tallgrass prairie. restoration activities must be increased Legacy will be of tremendous help.
By 1970, it was obvious that if we were and pursued more vigorously. We must
to retain tallgrass prairie, humans would reconstruct prairie on land that was once In spite of the many challenges associated
have to become responsible for restoring prairie and restore degraded prairie with restoring this historic ecosystem,
the remaining prairies or reconstructing remnants. Prairie that provides food for the ecological, economic, educational
new ones. the soul will flourish on marginal and cultural rewards make it well worth
farmland without diminishing our the effort. We need to retain and increase
Waterman Creek prairie © Dave DeGeus society’s capacity to continue to provide this national treasure as an investment
for the future. The prairie is a part of
our biological and cultural heritage and
it needs to be made available for more
people to visit, experience and
understand. Furthermore, there is a
certain redemptive value in spending
time on a prairie. My friend Arnold
Webster once commented to me as we
walked off The Nature Conservancy’s
Cedar Hills Sand Prairie late on a
Sunday morning, “After spending an
hour or so on the prairie, I can begin to
feel the cussedness run out of me.”

Daryl Smith is Director of the Tallgrass Prairie
Center and is Professor of Biology at The
University of Northern Iowa, a former
Conservancy in Iowa trustee and active
Conservancy member

4 Iowa Update

Science With Impact

Changing Iowa’s Effect on Gulf Waters

What does the 103-mile Boone agriculture watershed projects
River have to do with the Gulf
of Mexico located some 1,200 miles the Conservancy is using to
away? The Boone has a lot to do with
the Gulf, says Eileen Bader, the demonstrate ways to reduce
Conservancy’s Webster City-based
freshwater specialist. nutrients locally and help to

address the dead zone in the Arlo Van Diest ©Dave DeGeus/TNC
Gulf of Mexico.

The scientific lessons the Conservancy Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack in
learns along the Boone can be replicated announcing the funding.

The Boone, Bader

explains, flows in other agricultural areas. The Boone River Watershed was awarded

into the Des $4.4 million over four years through
MRBI for implementing practices
Moines River, Earlier this year, the U.S. Department of applying cover crops, no-till, strip-till
Agriculture (USDA) announced a and installing bio-reactors. Bader is
which flows into groundbreaking program called the working with partners such as the Iowa
Mississippi River Basin Healthy Soybean Association and the Hamilton
the Mississippi, Watersheds Initiative (MRBI). The County Natural Resources Conservation
object is to improve the health of the Service to sign up farmers like Arlo Van
which, in turn, Mississippi River Basin, including water Diest for the MRBI program.
quality and wildlife habitat. “The
empties into the funding will help producers implement a

Gulf. The runoff

Eileen Bader © TNC from the Boone
and other rivers in

the Mississippi Basin led to the creation

of huge “dead zones” in the Gulf. Iowa’s system of conservation practices that will Van Diest has been farming for some 50

Boone River Watershed is one of four control soil erosion, improve soil quality, years on 2,300 acres that drain into the

and provide wildlife habitat,” said Boone River. Concerned about the

nutrients entering the watershed from

his family farm, Van Diest installed one

of Iowa’s first “bioreactors.” It’s designed

to remove nitrates from field runoff

before the water flows into the nearby

Boone River. Likewise, he uses a strip till

conservation system that allows for a

more precise application of nutrients.

This precise nutrient application means

less fertilizer is applied, which in turn,

means less runoff.

“One of the really exciting things about
the Boone River Watershed and MRBI
is that it is measurable and quantifiable,”
says Bader.

Boone River © Kristen Blann/TNC

About the Mississippi River Basin Initiative

To improve the water quality and wildlife habitat along the Mississippi River, the Natural Resources Conservation Service
(NRCS) developed the Mississippi River Basin Healthy Watersheds Initiative (MRBI). The NRCS and its partners,
including The Nature Conservancy, help farmers in selected watersheds voluntarily implement conservation practices that
avoid, control, and trap nutrient runoff and improve wildlife habitat while maintaining high agricultural productivity.
Participating growers manage and optimize nitrogen and phosphorous within their fields to minimize runoff, thus
improving downstream water quality. Twelve states, including Iowa, participate in the program.

Fall 2010 5

On the Job

Conservancy Utilizes Volunteer
Fire Departments to Burn More Acres

Kyle Lapham is an unusual My job is show Kyle Lapham at TNC’s Folsom Pt. and with new
salesman. He sells fire. More landowners how fire daughter, Lena Jane © TNC photos
precisely, as the Conservancy’s Loess might be a tool for them
Hills fire coordinator, he sells the to consider.” firefighters, conservation agencies and
concept of fire as a conservation and landowners in conducting prescribed
land management tool to farmers and The approach to each fires. It’s basic math: as more fire
landowners in western Iowa. Likewise, burn may depend on the departments become qualified to
he “sells” the fire management landowner’s interests, conduct prescribed fire, more acres can
techniques and skills to the volunteer Lapham says. For be burned and in more places. “This
fire departments that conduct the burns. example, a landowner model has sticking power,” explains
might want to enable the return of cattle Susanne Hickey, director of conservation
Currently, there are four volunteer fire grazing by eliminating invasive Eastern programs. “Prescribed fire will be
departments in the Loess Hills that red Cedars. Or, a landowner might be sustainable for years to come.”
assist with prescribed fires; a number the interested in making his property
Conservancy hopes to double thanks to attractive to pheasants. The purpose of
Iowa West and Gilchrist Foundation the burn would be to help re-introduce
grants that fund Lapham’s efforts. native plants whose seeds will sustain the
young chicks. “You may not necessarily
“We’re going to be coming into our busy have more birds,” says Lapham, “but the
season soon,” says the Council Bluffs birds you do have will be healthier.” And
native. “So what I’ve been doing so far is although insects are the bane of the
meeting with landowners, maybe taking picnic, they are an important food
a group of them out to dinner, talking to source for wildlife, and their breeding
them about how a prescribed, controlled area will be taken into account in
burn could fit into their plans for the land. Lapham’s burn plan.

For city dwellers, it’s easy to imagine Part of Lapham’s job is to work with the
prairie fires as something runaway and various volunteer fire departments
terrifying. But Lapham notes that fire involved, whose members are often
has always been an important part of the landowners themselves. That’s why the
prairie ecosystem. In fact, it’s lack of fire Conservancy and partners, such as the
that is the problem. “The area might be Loess Hills Alliance, sponsor workshops
overgrown with brush or invasive weeds. in the Loess Hills to assist volunteer

Anatomy of a Prescribed Fire

Ever wonder how fire experts like Kyle Lapham or Scott Moats, the
Conservancy’s Fire Manager for Iowa and Nebraska, conduct a prescribed fire?
Here is a greatly simplified methodology.

Essentially, the managers work back to front.
• Fire managers will create a firebreak, taking into account wind, terrain and

other factors.
• A “blackline” is burned downwind well before the prairie fire is to begin. The

idea is to make the firebreak bigger, and, thus, safer. These are carefully
expanded by “flank fires” perpendicular to the wind.
• Later, when the blackline is cool, and the crew is safely accounted for, the
“burn boss” will set a series of ignitions to begin the “headfires.” Meanwhile,
fire crews guard the firebreaks and the sides of the burn area to prevent the
fire from escaping.

Prescribed Fire © Carl Kurtz

6 Iowa Update

Supporting Conservation

The Nature Conservancy would like to thank all our members for their commitment to Iowa’s natural areas.
The following members contributed $1,000 or more from July 1, 2009 to June 30, 2010.

Last Great Places Richard Bowers, Jr. Iowa Foundation for Education, Pheasants Forever - Donated Conservation
Gayle Boyd Environment & the Arts
Society ($10,000+) Megan Brown & Tony Allou O’Brien County Chapter Easement
Anonymous (4) Nancy Brown Carl & Carol Jacobson Pioneer Hi-Bred Richard & Debby Baker
Alliant Energy Foundation Steve & Beth Bruening Irving & Tigger Jensen, Jr.
Don & Barbara Brown William & Barbara Buss Joseph & Peggy Jester Community Investment
Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust Butler Family Foundation Craig & Joan Johnson
DuPont Dennis Byron Ann & Marlyn Jorgensen Marlys Young Potter Bargain Sale
Selma Duvick Robert Carstens James Kasper & Lucy Hansen
Evergreen Foundation Simon & Patricia Casady Joyce & John Kelley Robert & Linda Railey Conservation Easement
Michael Feiss & Cathy Cole, Cerro Gordo County Mary K. & Daniel M. Kelly Family Justin Ray & Cristi Downs Craig & Cathy Bobier
Nancy Roberts
In Honor of Barbara Cole & Community Foundation Foundation Sara Rynes-Weller Larry & Carol Farmer
In Memory of Margaret Feiss Sally Chai Louis Kirchhoff Renee & Steve Schaaf Bison in corral © Chris Helzer/TNC
Max and Helen Guernsey Dan & Diane Cloutier William & Judith Klink Ron & Barb Schaefer
Charitable Foundation Marge Coahran Barry & Carolyn Knapp Michael Schaeffer In-Kind Gifts
John K. & Luise V. Hanson Community Foundation of Richard & Judy Kreiter JG’s Old Furniture Systems
Foundation George & Marlys Ladd
Fred & Charlotte Hubbell Northeast Iowa Phillip & Mary Margaret Lainson William Scheible
Iowa Natural Heritage Foundation John & Carole Cotton Inger & Ian Lamb
Iowa West Foundation Donald & June Current Timothy Leeds & Janet Schlechte Estate Gifts
John Deere Classic Mark & Kay DeCook
Krause Gentle Foundation Renate & Dieter Dellmann Barbara Sohner-Leeds Lee & Nancy Schoenewe The following individuals have
Lola Lopes & Gregg Oden Delphine Douglass & Jim Werbel Robert & Nancy Lewis
Marilyn & Frank Magid David Drury Lois Lowenberg Ralph Schultz Family Foundation made a permanent impact by
Fred Maytag Family Foundation Don & Marian Easter Marilyn Luebe
Richard & Deborah McConnell Stan Eilers Roger Maddux & Karen Shaff & Steven Jayne making a bequest in the name
Barbara & Walter Mendenhall Essex Meadows
Susan Murty Charles & Marilyn Farr Cindy Hildebrand Gary & Anne Shaner of conservation. We are
Muscatine Prairie Endowment Karen & Matt Fitzsimmons William & Nancy Main
O’Brien County Sportsman’s Club Judy & Larry Foote William Main & Cindy Ohmart Fawn & John Shillinglaw privleged to carry on our work
Principal Financial Group Robert & Rhonda Foster Edward & Elizabeth Mansfield
Foundation, Inc. Joseph & Anne Frankel Steve & Sara Marquardt Toby & Sylvia Shine in their names.
Bob & Kay Riley Glen & Elizabeth Fredrickson Lloyd & Janice Mattoon
Stan & Dotty Thurston Christopher French McIntyre Foundation Rebecca & David Sidney Leon Bryan
Vermeer Charitable Foundation Dolores Garst John Menninger Stanley Consultants Freda Rebelsky
Young Family Foundation Roswell & Elizabeth Garst Don Merryman Margaret Emmons
Mills County Charitable Foundation LeRoy Pratt
Conservation Partners Foundation J. P. & Tamara Stein Mary Waterman-Gildehaus
Julia Gentleman Community Foundation Daniel & Beth Holden Stence
($1,000-$9,999) Dick & Deb George Virginia & Lee Molgaard Mary Stilson
Anonymous (2) Tom & Mary Gildehaus Roy & Christine Molina
Bobette Ash Ray & Patti Hamilton Lois Morrison Elizabeth Stroud New Legacy Club
Calvin & Kristine Atwell Joseph & Mary Herriges Carylann Mucha Submittal Exchange, LLC
Joni & John Axel Rudy & Deborah Herrmann Michael & Johanna Muench Keith & Nancy Sutherland Members
Terry Besser Lores & Orlin Hochstetler Richard & Sally Muller Ruth & Clayton Swenson Life income gift or
John & Mary Ellen Bickel James & Helen Hubbell, Jr. Michael Mundt John & Betty Syverud Conservancy as beneficiary in
Bill & Dianne Blankenship James & Cathy Murdock Bradley TePaske will, retirement plan or life
John Blocher Foundation Helen Murphy Daniel Terlouw & Bonnie Melville insurance policy.
Rebecca & Daniel Boscaljon Ronald Huhn Kelli & Tim Oswald Donna & John Thalacker Lois Albrecht
Dave & Barb Hurd Elizabeth Owens & William Brock
Pete & Jane Peters Dennis & Cecille Thompson Richard Bowers, Jr.
Ted Townsend Holly Carver & Lain Adkins
Sylvia & H.W. Trumbull, Jr. Nancy & Randall Frakes
Mary Ann Van Beek Susanne Hickey
Tom & Rosella Van Duzee Edward Klausner &
Robert & Connie Van Ersvelde
Doug & Jean Vickstrom Elizabeth Miller
Linda & John Vredenburg Laura Olberding
Charles & Donna Walker Don Puffett
Fred & Emily Weitz Byron & Julie Tabor
Wells Fargo Lori Ziegenhorn

Community Support Campaign

Grant to Improve Nature and Young Lives

In his spare time, Conservancy member and volunteer Dana Livingston, a
professor at Loras College, works with the Conservancy’s college-age Anna
Beal interns and inner-city teens from the Future Talk Youth Program on
maintaining Kauffman Avenue Prairie in Dubuque. The Dubuque Racing
Association made his job a little easier this summer, awarding the
Conservancy a $2,000 grant to buy a professional-grade brush cutter and
herbicides for the removal of invasive species on the preserve. Kauffman
Avenue Prairie features spectacular displays of bird’s-
foot violet, Great Plains ladies’-tresses, lead plant,
shooting stars and other traditional prairie plants.

Anna Beal intern with Brush cutter ©TNC photo

Fall 2010 7

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Tercek on Why Iowa Matters
Jennifer Filipiak
Director of Conservation Iowans will vote this November on the largest nutrients to the land while
Science conservation ballot initiative in the country – also preventing damaging
Iowa’s Water and Land Legacy. runoff from entering the
Matt Fisher Mississippi River and ending
Eastern Iowa Project This initiative will strengthen local economies, up in the Gulf of Mexico.
Director support our farmers, protect threatened species, help
shield communities against flooding and ensure the In the Lower Cedar Valley,
Mark Hainey incredible landscapes that make Iowa great will be we’re studying how diverse
Communications Specialist here for our children and grandchildren. native plant species can
strengthen degraded
Susanne Hickey But as the head of The Nature Conservancy, I have
Director of Conservation to say that Iowa’s Water and Land Legacy is not Mark Tercek © Mark Hainey/TNC
Programs only important to Iowa. It’s important to the nation
as a whole. floodplains, increasing water
Kyle Lapham storage in soils and helping shield local communities
Loess Hills Fire Coordinator Iowa’s lands not only serve as America’s breadbasket, against damaging floods in the future.
but the state’s rivers lie at the heart of the country,
Scott Moats pumping water across the entire United States. The Nature Conservancy is taking the scientific
Fire Manager & Director of data and knowledge gathered over the years to
Stewardship The Missouri River drains nearly one sixth of the expand protection to additional watersheds like the
area of the United States. Cedar River Basin.
Laura Norian
Operations Manager And the Mississippi River feeds directly into the Our goal is to use these new target sites as a
Gulf of Mexico, carrying tons of sediment and ‘springboard’ for strategic management plans for
Justin Ray nutrient runoff into the Gulf. the entire basin. This work will be important to
Associate Director of influence policy and conservation strategies at the
Philanthropy For the good of Iowans who rely on clean and highest levels in the state.
flowing water – as well as for the good of the
Taryn Samuels nation – we must take immediate action. Just as we depend on Iowa’s lands and waters for
Philanthropy & Executive food, shelter and income, these lands and waters
Coordinator For more than a decade, The Nature Conservancy depend on us to keep them healthy and productive.
has worked in the Mississippi River Basin, along the
Nick Walters Boone River and in the Lower Cedar Valley Iowa’s Water and Land Legacy is a vital part of
Conservation Data Manager collaborating with farmers, government agencies the solution.
and conservation groups.
Board of Trustees Protecting Iowa’s land and waters is not only
Along the Boone River, we’ve partnered with important to Iowa. It’s important to the entire nation.
Robert Riley, Jr. farmers to take steps to reduce soil erosion – saving
Chair, Des Moines them the cost of having to constantly replenish Mark Tercek is President and CEO of
The Nature Conservancy. These are his prepared remarks
Joan Axel for a Des Moines press conference.
Vice Chair, Muscatine

Michael Myszewski
Vice Chair, Des Moines

Lee Schoenewe
Vice Chair, Spencer

John Bickel
Cedar Rapids

William Blankenship
Sioux City

Richard Bowers, Jr.
Rapids City, IL

Dennis Byron
Urbandale

Therese Goodmann
Dubuque

Ann Jorgensen
Garrison

Lola Lopes
Iowa City

Richard McConnell
Grimes

Barbara Mendenhall
Okoboji

Nancy Roberts
Honey Creek

Thomas Rosburg
Colo

Ron Schaefer
Omaha, Neb.

Lisa Schulte Moore
Ames

John Syverud
Pleasant Valley

Stan Thurston
Des Moines

Advisors

Jason Andringa
Pella

Donald Brown
West Des Moines

Elizabeth Garst
Coon Rapids

Carl Kurtz
St. Anthony

Marilyn Magid
Cedar Rapids