Ellen Carman

Director of Iowa Wildlife Camps

Authored by Ellen Carman

A Lesson from the Macbride Nature Recreation Area

Monday, February 20, 2023
I grew up visiting Iowa’s field campus, the Macbride Nature Recreation Area, home to my earliest memories of exploring outdoors. It is the place with the “little house” in the forest, in which my sister and I would peer out the window at the bird feeders, counting the songbirds and making up names for each one we saw.