PhiLANDthropy
December 20, 2008 | Business Record (IA)
By: Kent Darr
Ask Cindy Hildebrand how many acres of land she is preserving in Story County, and she replies: "I tend not to think of number of acres; I tend to think of it in terms of the amount of honeysuckle I need to pull."
Hildebrand and her husband, Roger Maddux, are land philanthropists of the purest sort.
Over the last several years, they have purchased land with the sole intent of saving its remaining stands of prairie vegetation, native woodlands and oak savannas, the transition zone from prairie to timber most often populated with native bur oaks.
Hildebrand and Maddux are not alone in their attention to what remains of native Iowa landscape.
