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Hickory Hill Park : ウィキペディア英語版
Hickory Hill Park

Hickory Hill Park is a large natural area in northeast Iowa City, Iowa consisting of of forest, abandoned fields, reconstructed prairie, wetlands, and parkland centered on Ralston Creek and its tributary drainages. It is owned and administered by the city,〔Iowa City website: http://www.icgov.org/default/?id=1011〕 with help from Friends of Hickory Hill Park.〔(Friends of Hickory Hill Park Home Page )〕 The park is popular with day hikers, dog walkers, cross-country skiers, sledders, and picnickers.
Iowa City’s Hickory Hill Park should not be confused with Hickory Hills Park near Waterloo, or Hickory Hills Park in Tama County.〔(IA DNR: Clean Water Starts With You: Hickory Hills Lake Watershed )〕
==Park history==
Hickory Hill Park traces its origins to 1927 with a parcel of wood lots and farm fields purchased for expansion of the adjacent Oakland Cemetery. Oakland expanded slowly, leaving much of the land to naturalize. An area of was added in 1952 and the area was formally dedicated as a park in 1968, thanks to efforts of Dee Norton and other citizens.〔S. Walz, ''Iowa City Press-Citizen'': http://mypc.press-citizen.com/story.php?id_stories=776〕 The park was expanded to in the 1980s as part of a storm water control project.〔See the Sierra Club guide, http://www.cs.uiowa.edu/~jones/natural/hickory.html〕 In April 2008, Friends of Hickory Hill Park raised $160,000 to purchase a parcel that abuts the northwest edge of the park.〔''Iowa City Press-Citizen'', 8 April 08, http://www.press-citizen.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080408/NEWS01/804080321/1079〕 The parcel includes wooded and open areas. The remains of an ice dam and an ice house may be found on the property.

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