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From a bunch of sticks and grass. . . to a 5-by-5 foot osprey nest! This is just one of the many exhibits being created inside the Dickinson County Nature Center in Okoboji. If you haven’t been here for a while, make sure to stop by and see all the progress that ...

The Dickinson County Nature Center will be closed Thursday, March 13. The conservation board is hosting the Iowa Association of Naturalists conference March 12-14 and will have in-house seminars and programs Thursday, so it will be closed to the public. We apologize for the inconvenience but hope you will come on another ...

The Dickinson County Conservation Board welcomes community relations coordinator Kiley Roth. Roth will act as volunteer coordinator, office manager and will assist in environmental education. “I’m joining the conservation board at an exciting time as exhibits, programming and offerings are expanding at the nature center,” Roth said. “I am looking forward to ...

Exciting changes are underway at the Nature Center! Our naturalists have been hard at work designing and producing an entirely new and exciting array of interior displays to inspire and educate our visitors as we wait for spring to arrive. On Monday these designs began the transition into reality as ...

The winter sport facility (tubing hill) at Horseshoe Bend County Park near Milford, Ia will not be open this weekend. Even though there has been some recent snow in the area, there is still not enough to run the lift systems for the tubes and there is still grass showing ...

Tallgrass Prairie Display at the Nature Center GRAND OPENING EVENT February 7th, 2014 at 6:30PM Dickinson County Nature Center invites visitors to experience the story of our prairie heritage through the exhibit “Tallgrass Prairie – Past, Present and Future”; on display at Dickinson County Nature Center from February 4th – March 27th 2014. Hands-on displays and interactive components will engage ...