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Animal ambassador conservationists: Aldo Leopold

By kiley | May 4, 2020

The great plains toads at the Dickinson County Nature Center are named Al and Wally. Photo of Great Plains toad Wally is named after Alfred R. Wallace (read more about him here), and Al is named after Iowa-born conservationist Aldo Leopold. Leopold was born in 1887 in Burlington and spent much of his youth in Read More »

Tell apart Iowa toads

By kiley | August 21, 2019

Al and Wally, named for conservationist Alfred Wallace, are two Great Plains toads (Anaxyrus cognatus) that live at the Dickinson County Nature Center. Four different toads live in Iowa — Great Plains toad, American toad, Fowler’s toad and Woodhouse’s toad — and they can be difficult to tell apart. Here are a few key ways Read More »