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tonwood, almond-leaved willow, black 

 willow, soft maple, rare plants for 

 Iowa like buffalo grass, mesquite, prickly 

 pear, flameflower, common prairie plants 

 as woolly thistle, blazing star, purple 

 flowered onion, asters and goldenrods. 

 Sioux Falls, 12 mi. southwest, 0. R. 

 I. & P. C. M. & St. P. 



*Iotva River. (C3.) The meandering 

 portion of the stream with its islands 

 are a part of the park system of the 

 state. Cottonwood, sycamore, soft 

 maple, swamp white, bur and pin oaks, 

 black, sandbar and almond-leaved wil- 

 lows, green ash, box elder, black walnut, 

 mockernut hickory lower part of stream, 

 American elm, cardinal flower, aster 

 and goldenrod. American lotus, water 

 lilly, spatter dock, wild rice, arrow head, 

 rice cut grass, reed grass. 



Iowa City, C. R. I. & P., Cedar Rapids 

 & Iowa City Interurban. 



*Cedar River. (C3.) The meandering 

 part of the stream a part of the park 

 system. The meandered portion ex- 

 tends to Waterloo; cottonwood, Ameri- 

 can elm, almond-leaved, black and 

 sandbar willows; green ash, soft maple, 

 black birch, pin oak, swamp white oak, 

 bur oak, honey locust, big or mockernut 

 hickory, cardinal flower, rice cut grass, 

 blue or greater lobelia, monkey flower, 

 asters, goldenrods, etc. 



C. & Gt. W., 111. Cent. Waterloo, C. 

 R. I. & P. Iowa City. 



*Wapsipinicon River. (C3.) The 

 meandered part of the stream extends 

 into Jones County beyond Anamosa. 

 Cottonwood, almond-leaved, sandbar 

 and black willow, yellow birch, syca- 

 more, pin oak, swamp white, bur and red 

 oaks, American elm, black birch, dog- 

 wood, button bush, greater lobelia, 

 cardinal flower, monkej'^ flower, asters, 

 goldenrods, rice cut grass, Spanish 

 needles, iris, wild rice, American lotus, 

 spatter dock, Potamogeton, etc. 



Anamosa, C. M. & St. P. Ry., C. & 

 N. W. Ry. 



*Wapsipinicon Park. (B2.) On the 

 Wapsipinicon River; 168 acres adjacent 

 to the City of Anamosa, limestone bluffs, 

 caves and an abundance of fine springs. 



Dutch creek flows through the tract; 

 limestone bluffs rising 60 to 100 ft. from 

 the flood plain of the stream; lowan 

 drift sheet. Raccoon, gray squirrel, 

 quail, hawks, brown thrasher. Morning 

 dove, humming bird, etc. Trees; white, 

 black, red and bur oaks, sycamore, 

 sugar maple, soft maple, hickory, blue 

 beech, ironwood, yew, red cedar; Dutch- 

 mans breeches, Indian pipe, Virginia 

 creeper, wild grape, poison ivy, bitter 

 sweet, Solomon's seal, bladder fern, 

 maiden hair fern, blood root, etc. 



C. M. & St. P. Ry., Anamosa. 



*Iowa Lake. (C4.) Emmet County, 

 native grove, bathing, banks high and 

 well timbered; bur oak, slippery and 

 American elms, basswood, pignut hick- 

 ory, red osier, shiny leaved willow, red 

 cedar, cottonwood, sand bar, beaked 

 and almond-leaved willows, hepatica, 

 blood root, wild rice, vallisneria, pond 

 weeds (Potamogeton), arrowhead, skull 

 cap, etc. Fishing. 



Area 832 acres. Area in Minn. 478 

 acres, meander 433; in Iowa 354 acres, 

 meander 308. 



Armstrong C. R. I. & P. Ry. 



Dolliver C. R. I. & P. Ry. Roads 

 9-43. 



*Medium Lake. (C4.) Palo Alto 

 County, area 991 acres, meander 945 

 acres. 



Narrow fringe of trees, bur oak, 

 green ash, cotton-wood, pignut, sand 

 bar, almond-leaved willow, pond weeds, 

 wild rice, water lily, spatter dock, etc. 



Large variety of birds. 



Emmetsburg adjacent C. M. & St. 



P. Ry. 



Highways 17-19. 



*Twin Lakes, Calhoun County. (C4.) 

 Two small lakes in Calhoun County, 

 North Twin Lake with an area of 509 

 acres, meander encloses 569 acres. 



Narrow fringe of timber of basswood, 

 American and slippery elm, bur oak, 

 box elder and red haws, acquatic 

 plants ' like Potamogeton and marsh 

 plants like Carex and Scirpus. 



South Twin lake connected with 

 the North Lake, a narrow strip of 

 timber. 



