DIXON, IOWA (August 29, 2024) — On Saturday, September 14, 2024, 11AM, there will be a Sixth Annual Monarch Festival held at the Wapsi River Environmental Education Center in Dixon, Iowa.
Join the Wapsi River Center Staff and the Friends of the Wapsi Center as we celebrate Monarch Butterflies during this festival. There will be a monarch presentation at 11AM, followed by activities including butterfly crafts, seed ball-making, photo booths, a story corner, education stations, and monarch butterfly-catching, -tagging, -testing, and -releasing, 12-2:30PM.
Ms Mariposa’s Monarch Butterfly Bus will be at the Festival all day! Wolfe It Down Wood-Fired Pizza Food Truck will also be available from 11AM–2:30PM.
Capping off the festival 2:30–3:30PM will be a screening of Moved by Waters, which won the award for Best Documentary Short from the Iowa Motion Picture Association by Fourth Wall Films. The film showcases local partners in support of watersheds including Dave Murcia from the Wapsi River Center.
This event is FREE and fun for the entire family.
Free-will cash donations are welcomed for the Friends of the Wapsi Center.
Online registration is required. To register, go to:
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The Wapsi River Environmental Education Center can be found six miles south of Wheatland or one mile northwest of Dixon, Iowa by taking County Road Y4E. Then turn north at 52nd Avenue and follow the signs for about one mile.
