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I am going to give you information on the animals that were once native to Iowa. The Alces Moose was native to Iowa back in the 1970’s is they were knew of returning. There was only about 15 Alces Moose that came back down into Iowa in a time-span of 30 years. They came down from Minnesota We are the reason they are not here …show more content…

Wolves were once also native from Iowa. They remain on the endangered species list because of their low numbers. We have records saying that the last wolf that lived here was all that way back in 1925. There has only been one wolf seen since then and it was shot all the way down in Buchanan County. That was the first wolf seen and killed since 1925 that we have on record. The wolves are no longer here because in the 1900’s people were killing them off for their pelts that they used for currency or trade. We also killed them because people were very scared of them because they were mean and they usually run in numbers, known as “Packs”. There’s also a little creature from Iowa. The river otter once was full in this river. They weren’t just killed off here it was large parts of central and western part of The United States. That took place during the Mid-twentieth century. The otter’s were abundant during the European settlement. We killed them off again only for their pelts. After about 1890 in iowa they only existed on the mississippi river of

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