Get Outside, Iowa.

Join the upcoming Client Contact and Environmental Protection Commission (EPC) meetings.

The Iowa DNR will host Take It Outside camps for families living near Walnut Woods, Maquoketa Caves and Ledges state parks.

Naturalists, youth group leaders and others who take people out on the water in canoes and kayaks are encouraged to attend one of the Iowa DNR paddling school.

Crews with the Iowa DNR placed fyke nets in the outlets of the sloughs that flow into Big Spirit Lake on March 1 to start collecting northern pike.

A mild winter followed by timely spring rains has Iowa forests and woodlots leafing out ahead of spring turkey season.

MORAVIA – The late night, annual walleye collection has begun at Rathbun and Storm lakes and will begin in the next few days at East Okoboji and Spirit lakes.