Summer is by definition in the Midwest a time for very warm weather. Included in the mix will be intense sunlight due to longer daylight hours, and always with the possibility of pop-up rain showers and thunderstorms. Depending upon how Midwest and Continental high and low pressure systems ...

Summer arrived on Thursday. Hurray! While we celebrate this milestone of Earth’s orbit position around the Sun, the longest day of the year has been “averaged” and is set as June 20. Our longest daylight hours began on June 18th and will continue through June 24. The day length is, for ...

Coyotes are wild canines, dog-like predators on the landscape, and a vital component of the interplay between predator and prey. Hunters know that coyotes are always present somewhere. Hunters hear their barks and yelps usually during early evening hours. All major prey for coyotes must ...

The weather was our significant natural history moment this past week. A strong low pressure system wound itself into a tight ball of unstable air masses over the Midwest. Iowa took its share of severe storms that brought heavy rains, strong winds and several tornadoes last Tuesday. In the ...

Green Castle is a jewel of a park, nestled away in the rolling Southern Iowa Drift Plain hills of Marshall County. The park is located one mile south of Ferguson or about 11 miles from downtown Marshalltown. The land area is 116.5 acres and the lake surface has 16 acres of impounded water. ...

Wild turkeys can cast a spell upon dedicated spring gobbler hunters. The hunt can be easy, look easy, especially if all the conditions of time and place melt together flawlessly. Boom, the hunter shoots his or her turkey. Now the time comes to snap a few images for the record and head home, ...