For anyone curious, Big Sand Mound is a private preserve and is not open to the public.

How the hell did you post a KZbin short in 2017

Great bit of history I wasn’t aware of. Kevin M. Jewett son of Kelsey H. Jewett (Joe side of the brothers)

when u just have to show off you have better whiskers than an opossum

Thanks for posting. Got to see how their tracks would essentially overlap each other in one straight line

0:22 did that grow though the leaf?

WOW! amazing story--thanks for sharing Kristine

George Anson Jewett is related to me through his immigrant ancestor Maximilian Jewett . Maximilian’s brother Joseph Jewett was my 10th great grandfather. I guess their father would be George and I’s common ancestor. ❤

He's my great great great grandpa

Thank you for this. Finding information on this brave woman isn't easy.

I'd like to see an old photo of Southtown swimming pool - before the remodel

I have worked for EMC for 32 years and I’m proud to be associated with them. EMC rocks!

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*Promosm*

Adorable animals 🖖

It is a pleasure to find this video!

Such important work :)

Why is this a video? its literally a single picture

Again, thank you all so much for getting his grave marked. He is buried next to his infant son, Arthur (1881), and his wife Jennie (d 1885), also unmarked. At least something is finally in place. A little more history, Elijah was born in Red River Settlement, MB, Canada in 1837. His father, Thomas, emigrated from Scotland under contract with the Hudson Bay Company. His Mother, Barbara [Spence] was Métis (possibly of Nakota tribe decent). In case it comes up again, it's pronounced "wish-ert" rhymes with "Stewart," or some say "wish-art".

Thx excellent video and many good details. The variety of trees make nature so beautiful

Great Video! Greetings from distant relatives Germany😘

He’s my great great grandpa lol

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Seems corny but I applaud your efforts. And the chief is right in it. That's leadership.

The reunion of veterans in 1875 including then sitting 18th President Grant had to be linked to the dedication of the Crocker Elementary school at 6th and Crocker Street. The building headstone over the front double doors up a set of wide steps facing south reading 1875. Then President Grant had to have stood on these steps speaking to his veteran army. Crocker Elementary school was razed in the mid 1960's to make a path for the freeway US235 roadway. The Des Moines river bridge on Euclid Ave. bears his name in commemoration of this great Iowan. The school was located approximately two blocks to the south of Mercy Hospital on the westside of 6th ave. Attended Crocker Elementary school k-5 in the late 1950's. Roy M.Jones buried in Glendale Cemetery, Des Moines, Iowa Section 36A dated August 22, 2021

A lot to be proud of!

Great view of the salt and pepper shakers

Another educational moment. 😊

Pretty! Just don't dig them up from your local park!

So educational. Thanks.

So interesting!! Thank you from northern Illinois!!

Enjoy these so much 🤠

Kris Kringel

SANTA ISN’T REAL

Why is there a playground it should be more of a park, as a 9th grader I dont see how it could be useful, no offense but, middle and high school you just hang out and play sports no need for playgrounds

Nice work stay safekzbin.info/door/9sHCQZsBTSFQ-QZlLF-KOg?_confirmation=1

Wonderful! Emily B is a favorite! The guy who ran up to give you flowers made me laugh :)

Wonderful! Thanks for the great start to the day. ✌️

I wish I had that much knowledge to use on my property, but I'll keep researching and learn as much as I can. Thanks for sharing.

"Tar Des Moines" - did anyone really read the sign?? The subtality is missed. This whole thing must have sounded much better in someone's head.

Is this Part 2? See part 1 here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mqTVZYmoZpqdrqc You have excellent teaching ability. Thank you and Des Moines P&R! Wish you had more videos besides these two and the wildflower one. I am an amateur dendrologist/arborist who was raised in Chicago, along the Little Calumet River. My wife and I live in Phoenix, AZ now (eh), and have friends here from Des Moines, the Wilders. I mentioned Gray's Lake to them, and they gushed about its beauty. For no particular reason, here is some info I collected regarding an occasionally maligned tree which you refreshingly seem to respect, the Cottonwood. (I love all trees.) Many people deplore these trees, for little reason, but those of us who "get them" are like movie fans who understand the cult classic that most dopes fail to comprehend. One huge misconception is the "short-lived" lifespan often applied to the tree. Some sources declare an age past 75 years is impossible. More accurately, it is a "medium-lived" tree. ~Wiki: "Eastern Cottonwoods typically live 70 to 100 years, but..have the potential to live 200 to 400 years if they have a good growing environment." ~A naturalist at North Dakota Outdoors Magazine told me he has seen felled Cottonwoods exceeding the age of two centuries. ~I personally counted over 150 growth rings in an Eastern Cottonwood that had been stupidly (as usual) cut down. It grew at 7751 W Myrtle, Chicago, and had been estimated in 1976 to be 135-years-old by Dr George Ware of the Morton Arboretum. ~"A majestic 300-year-old cottonwood tree greets visitors crossing the Granite Creek Bridge entrance into Prescott Mile High Middle School in Prescott, Arizona. This great tree symbolizes growth, tradition, and adaptation. In 1867, a small log cabin, the first school in Arizona, was built in the shade of this great cottonwood..." -Prescott Mile High School site. ~"Located at the west end of Harriet Island Regional Park...stands one of the largest trees in the city, a beautiful eastern cottonwood. Many of the trees in Harriet Island’s flood plain are cottonwoods...When Harriet Island became a park in 1900, the tree had already established itself as a stately shade tree. It’s estimated the tree dates back to the 1620’s. Growing in ideal conditions, cottonwoods have a maximum life span of 200-400 years." -online site ~"A park in Fernie, B.C., protects some of the biggest, oldest black Cottonwoods in the world, interspersed in an old-growth western red cedar forest. Towering as high as a 10-storey building, these trees provide homes for many species, including dens for black bears, nests for the endangered Western Screech-Owl, and habitat for many other songbirds and insects. "In 2003 this grove of Cottonwood trees was discovered that rival Canada's famed coastal cedars and firs in both age and girth. Scientists confirmed the ages of the trees, putting the oldest at more than 400 years old, and measuring up to 10 metres around. They are by far the oldest known Cottonwoods in the world. Fernie is located in southeast British Columbia, Canada." -online site ~Landscaping With Native Trees (Sternberg & Wilson): "...(Cottonwood trees) are so resilient that some live to take their place among the largest of our deciduous trees. A few of the venerable Cottonwoods that shaded Lewis and Clark on their Journey of Discovery in 1804 are still growing along the Missouri River." (This would estimate their age at about 250 years old.) ~Chicago Sun-Times, April 28 2018: "An eastern cottonwood (Populus deltoides) growing in the Byron Forest Preserve District’s new Bald Hill Prairie Preserve is the Illinois Big Tree Champion. It’s estimated to be 200 years old, making it a bicentennial tree, which probably started growing when Illinois became the 21st state in 1818." (This replaced the 175-year-old specimen at Gebhard Woods.) ~Knowing Your Trees (Collingwood and Brush) approximates the lifespan of Cottonwood at about 150-years. ~You can research the prematurely destroyed Cottonwood of William (RIP) and Beatrice Carmel. It was over 200 years old. (We call these longer-lived specimens "exceptions" when we really need to increase the average estimated lifespan to perhaps 75-120 years; considerably more when favorable genetics and environs come into play. I've quoted a few sources on this, but will now instead share the stirring words of Charles S Sargent, first director of Harvard's Arnold Arboretum: "With its massive pale stem, its great spreading limbs and broad head of pendulous branches covered with fluttering leaves of the most brilliant green, Populus deltoides is one of the stateliest and most beautiful inhabitants of the forests of North America." Indeed. This species (often disheveled in some older specimens) can rival more "aristocratic" trees in terms of beauty and luxuriant foliage. Author Kathleen Cain rightly calls the Cottonwood an "American Champion". Thanks.

Thank you! I've never noticed the seed pods on sycamore. They're beautiful!

Thank you for this informative video!

This is why I love living in Des Moines. Thank you Des Moines Parks Department

That's some good firewood to that Locust

Thanks for going the SPOTLIGHT games this year!

great information but the traffic noise is unbearable

This is really

I am so proud of the Des Moines Park Board/Staff - parks are so important to the quality of life in our community and we are blessed with the best staff ever! Thanks for all you do!

Does she keep saying "leafs"?