From the Iowa Department of Natural Resources:
Mark your calendar to help shape the future of Iowa!
Your opportunity to shape Iowa’s future is right around the corner. Iowa’s premiere outdoor recreation and conservation funding program (Resource Enhancement and Protection, REAP) is holding the biennial regional assemblies to hear what Iowans have to say about the future of outdoor recreation and conservation. So mark your calendar because an assembly will be near you between September 20th and October 27th! For a full schedule, please visit the REAP Assembly webpage.
This year we will be having a REAP Open House ahead of each assembly from 5:30-6:30 where you can learn about the many ways REAP positively impacts your region and mingle with those that are responsible for making REAP projects happen in your area. The REAP Assembly will then be held from 6:30 -8:00.
The REAP Assembly enables you to work with your neighbors and friends to recommend improvements to make REAP (and Iowa) better. You will also elect delegates to the REAP Congress in Des Moines on January 7th. Please plan to join us and continue to help make REAP the premiere outdoor recreation and conservation program for Iowa.
In its 22 year history, it has funded over $260 million worth of parks, soil, water and habitat improvements, roadside prairies, historical development and conservation education.
The famous REAP formula distributes funding to farmers, conservation organizations, educators, cities, counties, historians, and state projects. Funding comes from gaming revenues and sales of natural resource license plates.
I look forward to seeing you all there and please encourage others to join you!
2011 REAP Assembly Schedule
Open House with Displays at 5:30-6:30, 6:30-8:00 Assembly
CITY DATE LOCATION COUNTIES IN REGION Cedar Falls 9/20 Hartman Reserve Nature Center 657 Reserve Drive, Cedar Falls 3 blocks north of Rainbow Drive
REGION 7: Black Hawk, Bremer, Buchanan, Butler, Chickasaw, Grundy Monona 9/21 Community Center 104 S Egbert St. 1 block east of N Main Street
REGION 1: Allamakee, Clayton, Fayette, Howard, Winneshiek Coralville 9/22 North Ridge Pavilion 2250 Holiday Rd. Coralville, IA 52241 REGION 10: Benton, Iowa, Johnson, Jones, Linn, Washington Maquoketa 9/27 Hurstville Interpretive Center 18670 63rd St., North of Maquoketa on Hwy 61 REGION 8: Cedar, Clinton, Delaware, Dubuque, Jackson Mason City 9/28 Lime Creek Nature Center 3501 Lime Creek Road, less than one mile north of Mason City on Hwy 65, then take Nature Ct. Rd REGION 2: Cerro Gordo, Floyd, Franklin, Hancock, Kossuth, Mitchell, Winnebago, Worth Marshalltown 9/29 Grimes Farm and Conservation Center 2349 233rd St., West of Marshalltown From the west, take Exit 181 from Highway 30. Turn left at Highland Acres Road and head north for about half a mile. Turn left again on 233rd Street. From the east, take Exit 182 (Highland Acres Road) and turn right. The road will make a peculiar little jog as it goes over Iowa Avenue, but keep on going north for another half a mile or so. Turn left on 233rd Street. REGION 6: Hardin, Marshall, Poweshiek, Tama Correctionville 10/4 Correctionville Community Center 312 Driftwood (Hwy 31) REGION 4: Cherokee, Ida, Monona, Plymouth, Woodbury Spencer 10/5 Clay County Regional Events Center 800 W. 18th REGION 3: Buena Vista, Clay, Dickinson, Emmet, Lyon, O’Brien, Osceola, Palo Alto, Sioux Fort Dodge 10/6 Bob Heuen Shelter at Kennedy Park 1415 Nelson Ave., approximately 5 miles north of Fort Dodge on 15th street or County Road P56 REGION 5: Calhoun, Hamilton, Humboldt, Pocahontas, Webster, Wright Muscatine 10/10 Environmental Learning Center 3300 Cedar St. REGION 9: Muscatine, Scott Burlington 10/11 City Auditorium – Banquet Room 200 North Front Street REGION 16: Des Moines, Henry, Lee, Louisa Fairfield 10/12 Fairfield Library 104 West Adams Avenue REGION 15: Davis, Jefferson, Keokuk, Mahaska, Van Buren, Wapello Shenandoah 10/18 Shendoah Chamber and Industrial Association 100 S. Maple REGION 13: Fremont, Mills Montgomery, Page Council Bluffs 10/19 Council Bluffs Public Library 400 Willow Avenue REGION 17: Pottawattamie, Harrison, Shelby, Cass Carroll 10/20 Conservation Center at Swan Lake State Park Southeast of Carroll REGION 12: Audubon, Carroll, Crawford, Greene, Guthrie, Sac Moravia 10/24 Honey Creek Resort State Park 12194 Honey Creek Pl. REGION 18: Appanoose, Lucas, Monroe, Wayne Creston 10/25 Southwestern Community College Performing Arts Center/Multipurpose Room 1201 W. Townline St.
REGION 14: Adair, Adams, Clarke, Decatur, Madison, Ringgold, Taylor, Union West Des Moines 10/27 Raccoon River Park Lodge 2500 Grand Avenue REGION 11: Boone, Dallas, Jasper, Marion, Polk, Story, Warren
