As Iowa State students walk throughout campus each day, they often cross paths with wildlife such as geese, chipmunks, deer, bats and even an occasional fox or raccoon. In previous years, students would pass by familiar swans Lancelot and Elaine, swimming in campus’ notorious Lake LaVerne. However, the swans have not been seen on LaVerne.
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Iowa State professor Janette Thompson said she had a visceral reaction upon seeing a riverside forest destroyed along Ioway Creek. I drove over the bridge and I just thought I was gonna lose my breakfast, Thompson said. It was like a gut punch.
The city felled trees along the Ioway Creek, near the Duff Avenue bridge in Ames, this spring as part of a $4.9 million flood mitigation project 10 years in the making.
While the city plans to create wetlands in the area, Iowa State Natural Resource Ecology and Management professors Thompson, Timothy Stewart and Michael Rentz say the project removed established habitat incomparable to anything manmade.