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Matching Grant Offered for Purchase of Conservation Land

Matching Grant Offered for Purchase of Conservation Land

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Arnolds Park, IA (Northwestiowanow.com) — The Iowa Natural Heritage Foundation has until the end of the month to exercise it’s option on 73 acres on East Lake Okoboji.
Director of Philanthropy Abby Hade Terpstra says one family is offering a matching grant until Friday to put the fundraising effort over the top.

The land is currently a campground. If efforts to purchase it are successful it would be deeded to the city of Arnolds Park and managed by Dickinson County Conservation.

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