Interested in Iowa’s enduring landscapes? Join us on Thursday, August 6th, at 6:00PM for a walking tour of Lois Tiffany State Preserve. As this event will be outdoors, attendees are encouraged to dress appropriately for weather.

Lois Tiffany Prairie is an 80-acre preserve nestled in the heart of the Little Sioux Valley, dedicated to the memory of Dr. Lois Tiffany—a renowned professor of mycology and field botany at Iowa State University. Dr. Tiffany’s deep passion for the natural world and her lifelong commitment to education left a profound impact on her students and the broader field of botany.

The Little Sioux Valley, a priority conservation landscape in Iowa, is ecologically rich and diverse. The Little Sioux River begins in southern Minnesota and winds its way south, skirting the Iowa Great Lakes and flowing through ancient glacial deposits before joining the Missouri River. This northwestern Iowa watershed is a dynamic mosaic of prairie, river, lake and wetland ecosystems. Once dominated by tallgrass prairie, the region still supports rare native remnants, including pothole wetlands, calcareous fens, hill prairies and oak woodlands.