In this edition of the Morning Lift, 3 News Now’s Zach Williamson heads out to Crescent, Iowa to ride shotgun with Pottawattamie County Conservation Executive Director Jeff Franco.
Franco takes us for a ride in through the Loess Hills at Hitchcock Nature Center and Crescent Hill in the Loess Hills. Pottawattamie County owns both places.
There’s only two places in the world that have a Loess Hills land form. The other is in China along the Yellow River, but they’ve been degraded to the point where they no longer posses any of their natural characteristics – making the Loess Hills in western Iowa truly one-of-one…