Meeting Inforrmation

Lanny Haldey with the Amana Trails Association gave a brief report about the trail efforts in the Amana’s. Construction for the trail through the Village of middle Amana to Hwy 220 is slated for late summer/early fall of 2007.

Tom Christoffer with the STC Recreational Trail Committee gave an update of their trail efforts they are working on building the next mile of trail the summer of 2007. Tom led the group in a special song he developed for the Ioway Trail project. Tom will work with Mark McFate our Ioway Trail webmaster to get the lyrics on our website. Thanks very much for Tom’s artistic efforts in developing this great inspirational song!!

Harry Graves, Laura Hawks, and Terry Dahms gave a report on the trail efforts of the Clear Creek Watershed board. Plans are underway to develop a trail from Coralville to Kent Park along Clear Creek. Initial meetings with Landowners have been conducted and Terry highly recommended letting Landowners sell the trail to their neighbors rather than having a trail committee member sell the different landowners on trail development. Laura mentioned she would forward a digital copy of their trail map to our webmaster Mark McFate.

Rod Scott with the Iowa River Greenbelt Resource Trust gave a presentation with regard to the efforts in Hardin County to develop a watertrail. He shared his dream to develop a watertrail from Bellmont (SP?)all the way to the Mississippi River.

Christa Perkins and Julie Ohde with Geode RC&D and the Louisa CCB discussed their interest in pursuing a water trail to the Mississippi.

The group thought there was a great deal of potential and interest to have a planning session with the different partners involved in developing a watertrail to the Mississippi. The next Ioway Trail meeting is scheduled for March 7^th at 10:00 AM at the Johnson County Conservation Center at Kent Park we will specifically plan a strategy to develop the Iowa River Watertrail to the Mississippi.