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Resource Center in Mills County, transferred by the The Archaeological Conservancy, a national orga- For those who wander the Loess Hills National Sce-
Iowa State Legislature from the Department of Hu- nization dedicated to acquiring and preserving the nic Byway, the end of this study is only the beginning
man Services to the Iowa Department of Natural best of our country’s remaining archaeological sites, of a new visitor experience—time travel. The plans
Resources, was dedicated as Iowa’s ninety-sixth— became a new partner for the Loess Hills and Iowa. established for the future protection, management,
and largest—archaeological preserve. Since 1965 the Early in 2010, it announced plans to acquire the and interpretation of the area’s extraordinary cultural
Iowa Preserves System has offered the highest level of Woodfield Earth Lodges site (13ML102)—the twin heritage promise to draw the past well into the future
state protection for Iowa’s natural and cultural heri- lodges first excavated by the project in 2009. This for decades to come.
tage. The new preserve contains 109 archaeological would be Iowa’s very first Conservancy-protected
sites, 27 of them prehistoric Glenwood earth lodges. site! 43

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