A rare event is scheduled in central Iowa tomorrow, the grand opening of an 1,100-acre wildlife area, the single largest park acquisition in Polk County Conservation history.
Jessica Lown, the agency’s community outreach supervisor, says the vast landscape known as the Brenton Slough, north of Grimes and near the Dallas County border, has been privately owned by the Brenton family since the 1880s.
“I think the family collectively had some conversations,” Lown says, “and eventually came to the decision that it was a really special place for them and they wanted it to remain a special place that was nature-based and they wanted that to continue on into perpetuity.”…