Friday, April 18, is the final of three events focused on the Iowa River, declared endangered by the organization American Rivers.  Each event is a guided bus tour of the river with site visits along the way, followed by a reading/lecture.  

The guided bus tour leaves at 3 p.m. from the south side of the UI Main Library. This tour will head south to a farm and nature preserve in Louisa County as well as the University of Iowa’s Lucille A. Carver Mississippi Riverside Environmental Research Station. Learn more about the Mississippi Riverside Environmental Research Station in a feature article by Sara Epstein.

Connie Mutel, author of The Emerald Horizon: The History of Nature in Iowa, will act as guide. A box supper will be served. At 7 p.m., Nancy Langston, professor in the Gaylord Nelson Environmental Institute at the University of Wisconsin and author of Where Land and Water Meet, will read and lecture at the high school in Columbus Junction, where the Cedar and Iowa Rivers meet. The bus will return to the UI Main Library.

All events are free and open to the public. Bus tours require registration by emailing Cory Sanderson cory-sanderson@uiowa.edu or calling 319-353-1021.