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To kill a sandhill crane


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On Wednesday, May 26, the full moon rose over Chicago at 8:55 p.m. It took ten minutes to clear the horizon, but I spotted it before then as it gave the night sky a pink-orange glow.
As I watched the moon rise through a pair of 40-year-old binoculars, I felt a deep inner calm. I needed that sense of calm to balance against a sense of despair I had felt that morning, a point I’ll come back to.
I have favorite “moon times,” in fall and spring, because I associate the moon and its phases with the migration of sandhill cranes. Growing up in the 10th Ward on Chicago’s Southeast Side, I could step out into my backyard on a cold March morning and watch with those same binoculars as waves of cranes, sometimes by the thousands, flew north from the Jasper-Pulaski Wildlife Refugee in Indiana. ....

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Giant kayak flotilla planned for Big Hollow Recreation Area


Des Moines County supervisors and department heads hear plans for Jamboree substitute.
Bob Saar
for The Hawk Eye
A summer highlight in Des Moines County is the annual Outdoor Youth Jamboree at Big Hollow Recreation Area, but COVID-19 sidelined that for this year.
No worries: conservation director Chris Lee told county supervisors and department heads the event will be replaced with an open house including a scavenger hunt May 15.
We re going to have canoe rentals, we ll have some fishing poles you can borrow, Lee said.
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May 15 will include the new Fill the Lake Flotilla, which Lee said is similar to a flotilla in the Quad Cities area. ....

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Tips on how, when, where to find morel mushrooms by Iowans


The Hawk Eye
As the soil grows warm with spring s arrival, Kayla Schier and Ethan Jones look forward to taking their two children to their favorite spot to scour the earth for nature s delicacy. 
The Burlington couple grew up hunting morel mushrooms with their families, Jones in Burlington and Schier in rural Mediapolis. 
I grew up on a farm and we d always go mushroom hunting when the season hit me, my mom and my brother, Jones said. We d spend hours out in the woods just picking mushrooms.
While Jones morel experience took place in wooded areas, Schier s family turned to the cow pasture.  ....

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