IOU Meeting Notes 5/15/06
Introductions
Announcements
Devonian Fossil Gorge Trip – next weekend. If you would like to go please contact shollerich@peoplepc.com.
Devils Lake State Park – 5 spots remain for the weekend of June 1st or 2nd to June 4th. If you would like to go please email iowaoutdoorunlimited@yahoo.com.
Loess Hills and Desoto National Wildlife Refuge – Some of the group will be leaving for the western side of the state on the 9th and return on the 11th.
Boundary Waters Canoe Area – 4 spots open for the week of August 5 – 12th. If you would like to go please email iowaoutdoorunlimited@yahoo.com. The first $100 deposit will be due at the June meeting (June 19th at 7:00 p.m. at Grays Lake Park swimming peninsula). Second deposit of $100 will be the July meeting (July 17th). The remainder of cost will be due upon leaving for the trip (around $50 to $75).
IOU Amazing Race – June 17th most of the afternoon. If you are interested please contact Emily Vaughn at eev23@hotmail.com by June 5th. If we don’t have 4 teams (8 people) the event will be cancelled.
Next meeting is June 19th at 7:00 pm on the Gray’s Lake swimming peninsula. Look for the tent. This meeting we will be learning about bicycle maintenance so please bring your bike if you would like.
July meeting will be held on July 17th at 7:00. During the meeting we will be discussing how to hang a bear bag and water treatment practices. More to come.
Meeting:
The group met with Chris Adkins and Reba Reddick (IOU member) at the Dallas County Conservation Board. The weather threatened to ruin our fun but as we pulled onto the road to Kuehn Conservation Area the rain stopped.
Chris eagerly awaited out group and upon arrival he talked to us for a bit about what Dallas County parks can offer our group and invited us to come to many of their special events.
After our talk we went over and learned about spear throwing and throwing spears with Atlatls. It was really neat to see how far and fast a spear could be thrown with an atlatl vs without and atlatl. Several members actually hit our deer target. Only a couple probably would have really injured the deer had it been real. It had a couple of pains in the butt, a shot to the hoof and a couple of stomach shots. All in all I think our group did pretty well.
Here are some links to Dallas County Conservation Boards Homepage.
Current Events/ Calendar - http://www.co.dallas.ia.us/conservation/Events_Cal/Events_Cal.html
Dallas County Conservation Board Homepage -
http://www.co.dallas.ia.us/conservation/DCCD.html
Learn more about AtlAtl’s at the following sites.
http://www.atlatl.com/
http://www.worldatlatl.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlatl
The throwing was concluded by dinner at Cracker Barrel.
Announcements
Devonian Fossil Gorge Trip – next weekend. If you would like to go please contact shollerich@peoplepc.com.
Devils Lake State Park – 5 spots remain for the weekend of June 1st or 2nd to June 4th. If you would like to go please email iowaoutdoorunlimited@yahoo.com.
Loess Hills and Desoto National Wildlife Refuge – Some of the group will be leaving for the western side of the state on the 9th and return on the 11th.
Boundary Waters Canoe Area – 4 spots open for the week of August 5 – 12th. If you would like to go please email iowaoutdoorunlimited@yahoo.com. The first $100 deposit will be due at the June meeting (June 19th at 7:00 p.m. at Grays Lake Park swimming peninsula). Second deposit of $100 will be the July meeting (July 17th). The remainder of cost will be due upon leaving for the trip (around $50 to $75).
IOU Amazing Race – June 17th most of the afternoon. If you are interested please contact Emily Vaughn at eev23@hotmail.com by June 5th. If we don’t have 4 teams (8 people) the event will be cancelled.
Next meeting is June 19th at 7:00 pm on the Gray’s Lake swimming peninsula. Look for the tent. This meeting we will be learning about bicycle maintenance so please bring your bike if you would like.
July meeting will be held on July 17th at 7:00. During the meeting we will be discussing how to hang a bear bag and water treatment practices. More to come.
Meeting:
The group met with Chris Adkins and Reba Reddick (IOU member) at the Dallas County Conservation Board. The weather threatened to ruin our fun but as we pulled onto the road to Kuehn Conservation Area the rain stopped.
Chris eagerly awaited out group and upon arrival he talked to us for a bit about what Dallas County parks can offer our group and invited us to come to many of their special events.
After our talk we went over and learned about spear throwing and throwing spears with Atlatls. It was really neat to see how far and fast a spear could be thrown with an atlatl vs without and atlatl. Several members actually hit our deer target. Only a couple probably would have really injured the deer had it been real. It had a couple of pains in the butt, a shot to the hoof and a couple of stomach shots. All in all I think our group did pretty well.
Here are some links to Dallas County Conservation Boards Homepage.
Current Events/ Calendar - http://www.co.dallas.ia.us/conservation/Events_Cal/Events_Cal.html
Dallas County Conservation Board Homepage -
http://www.co.dallas.ia.us/conservation/DCCD.html
Learn more about AtlAtl’s at the following sites.
http://www.atlatl.com/
http://www.worldatlatl.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlatl
The throwing was concluded by dinner at Cracker Barrel.
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