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Have you ever lost something? How long do you search for your lost item before giving up? In 1980, Terry Frest found a snail that scientists had lost (knew only from fossils) for 400,000 years! Where? Living in the cold air caves of North East Iowa. Today, these snails and many other species of plants and animals are protected at the Driftless Area National Wildlife Refuge. Listen to the audios below to learn more about what makes this part of Iowa like almost no place else on Earth!

Driftless Area National Wildlife Refuge – Not so Driftless (4:53)

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Geology of Driftless Area Wildlife Refuge Cold Air Caves (3:01)
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Conservation of the Driftless Area National Wildlife Refuge – Past and present (6:36)
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Driftless Area National Wildlife Refuge All Tracks (12:30)
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Bedrock Geology of Driftless Area

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Bedrock Geologic Map of Iowa, 1998. Natural Resources, Department

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More on Driftless Area

Driftless Area NWR Homepage

Friends of the Upper Mississippi River Refuges

The Driftless Area Initiative

The Iowa Pleistocene Snail

Northern Wild Monkshood

Weather Forecast for Driftless Area NWR and Surrounding Area

Quotes from Driftless Area

"All of Iowa was once glaciated but only the central part of the state was covered by ice in the last advance of glaciers ending about 12,000 years ago. Most of the rest of Iowa, including the northeast corner, was last glaciated in the order of a half million years ago."

-Lynn Brant

"Human-caused disturbances including overgrazing, logging, road construction, and quarrying have reduced and compromised the remaining algific ecosystems of the Iowa Pleistocene land sail. This snail species has existed for approximately the past 400,000 years.”

-Chad Heinzel

Iowa Academy of Science

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Link to weather forecast for Driftless Area National Wildlife Refuge.

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Funding provided by the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation.

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