Iowa West Boys & Girls Club of Omaha Ranch

      This day camp in Carter Lake, IA serves boys and girls throughout
      the Omaha/Council Bluffs area. To provide the campers with a
      fun, learning activity, the sand play area hides artifacts important
      to the historic and cultural legacy of the river. The camp has
      two sets of artifacts, with an accompanying interpretive exhibit
      that describes the buried items and their importance. 

      
The first set theme highlights animals and people who traveled
      along the river and their tools. The travelers include Native
      Americans, gold miners, wooly mammoths and today's campers. The
      artifacts for this theme are buried tools include pottery, tusks,
      binoculars and powder horns. The second theme features animals
      that live in and along the river, including otters, turtles,
      least terns, and sturgeon. Cast stone replicas of the animals
      are buried within the sand.


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