Eastern Iowa Wildlife Rescue & Rehabilitation is partnering with local businesses and community volunteers to design, build, and deploy custom enrichment structures for wildlife undergoing rehabilitation as well as for some of our local animal shelters.
Enrichment structures—such as climbing platforms, foraging puzzle boxes, perches, and shelter hideouts—are crucial for helping recovering animals maintain natural behaviors, build muscle strength, and reduce stress while in care, ensuring higher success rates upon release back into the wild.
Climbing & Agility Platforms
Foraging & Puzzle Boxes
Waterproof Hideouts & Dens
1725 East Maple St. Hrs: Monday-Friday
Maqouketa, Ia 52060 9:00am-5:00pm
We are proud to collaborate with repurposedMATERIALS (Iowa Inventory), who is generously donating build materials and reclaimed supplies to make this initiative possible.
By utilizing industrial supply cast-offs, lumber, fire hoses, canvas, and repurposed hardware, this partnership not only supports native wildlife and shelter animals but also promotes environmental sustainability by keeping usable materials out of landfills.
"Giving second life to materials while helping give a playground for shelter animals and a second chance to local wildlife "
Interested in partnering on this project? Contact our team to see how your organization can contribute materials, tools, or volunteer hours.
We built 2 structures this weekend using donated materials and drift wood that was collected from the Mississippi River. All the wood was pressure washed and inspected. We would like to Thank Clark boats in Bellevue for the use of their electricity and floor space. Another thanks to the Kettman family of Bellevue for donating the carpet and for repurposedMATERIALS in Maqouketa for the firehose and plywood.
Another shoutout to all the volunteers that showed up to add ideas, materials, and tools.
We look forward to building more this weekend.
Drift wood collecting
Going for something different here!
We walked the river banks and found some amazing pieces of drift wood, worked on sewing the canvas hammocks, and started building another structure. Throughout next week this one will get finished up and we will start building a couple of Iowa Hawkeye themed structures to sell at the vendor fair next month to raise more money. Even with using drift wood and donated materials, we still are spending significant amounts on hardware and tooling.