Eddyville Dunes Cited as Area in Need of Protection

Eddyville Dunes Update 11/99

Sierra Club Announces Plan to SPARE America's Wildlands

The Sierra Club's plan to protect our national and neighborhood wild places and open spaces includes stories and snapshots of the America landscape, including six national treasures and 52 special, wild places closer to home, including Iowa's Eddyville Dunes. The aim of the report is to educate people about what can be done to save open spaces, leave trees standing, keep communities intact and connect concerned citizens with neighbors who are working to protect our wildlands.

The SPARE America's Wildlands program includes five common sense approaches that would stop the destruction of our wild places and open spaces, and rescue what remains. They are:
Smart growth - managing suburban sprawl
Preservation - designating lands as permanently protected parks, refuges, and wilderness
Acquisition - purchasing lind to protect it, both in urban areas and remote wild regions
Restoration - recovering what's been lost and rebuilding healthy natural systems
End commercial logging - stopping timber industry logging of National Forests and other federal public lands

The Iowa Chapter's campaign to protect the Eddyville Dunes is well underway. The following links will help you learn more about our conservation efforts to protect the Eddyville Dunes.

How the Campaign Began - with links to some photos of affected species

Eddyville Dunes a Brief Description

Eddyville Dunes Area Map with Routes from FEIS - Loads Slowly

Photos of W-25 Acris Pond area

Photos of Teno Pond area

Photo by Pat McAdams