Roberts Creek State Preserve

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Roberts Creek State Preserve is located in rural Clayton County, Iowa, in Wagner Township, near St. Olaf, Iowa, and a few miles north of Elkader, Iowa. is a tributary of the Turkey River.

The Preserve contains algific talus slopes, a rare ecosystem unique to the Driftless Area and hosts a threatened wildflower.

The preserve is not open to the public, in that it is a rare ecosystem that contains a threatened species, Aconitum noveboracense, also known as Northern Blue Monkshood or Northern Wild Monkshood, a saxifrage, (a buttercup).

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Protected areas of Iowa

Federal

National monument	Effigy Mounds
National Historic Site	Herbert Hoover
National Wildlife Refuges	DeSoto Driftless Area Neal Smith Northern Tallgrass Prairie Port Louisa Union Slough Upper Mississippi River

State

State Parks	Ambrose A. Call Backbone Badger Creek Banner Lakes at Summerset Beeds Lake Bellevue Big Creek Black Hawk Brushy Creek Cedar Rock Clear Lake Dolliver Memorial Elk Rock Elinor Bedell Emerson Bay Fairport Fort Defiance Geode George Wyth Memorial Green Valley Gull Point Honey Creek Lacey-Keosauqua Lake Ahquabi Lake Anita Lake Darling Lake Keomah Lake Macbride Lake Manawa Lake of Three Fires Lake Wapello Ledges Lewis and Clark Maquoketa Caves Marble Beach McIntosh Woods Mines of Spain & E.B. Lyons Mini-Wakan Nine Eagles Okamanpedan Palisades-Kepler Pikes Peak Pikes Point Pilot Knob Pillsbury Point Pine Lake Pleasant Creek Prairie Rose Preparation Canyon Red Haw Rice Lake Rock Creek Springbrook Stone Templar Trapper's Bay Twin Lakes Union Grove Viking Lake Volga River Walnut Woods Wapsipinicon Waubonsie Wildcat Den Wilson Island
State Forests	Backbone Pilot Mound Shimek Stephens White Pine Hollow Yellow River
State Preserves	Bixby Brushy Creek Cameron Woods Cayler Prairie Cold Water Spring Decorah Ice Cave Fish Farm Mounds Fort Atkinson Gitchie Manitou Hanging Bog Hartley Fort Hayden Prairie Indian Fish Trap Little Maquoketa Montauk Mount Talbot Old State Quarry Pilot Grove Pilot Knob Roberts Creek Slinde Mounds Toolesboro Mounds Turkey River Mounds White Pine Hollow Wittrock Indian Village Woodman Hollow

County

State Parks (Leased)	Lake Icaria

Iowa Department of Natural Resources

Coordinates: 42°54′58″N 91°23′02″W / 42.916°N 91.384°W / 42.916; -91.384

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