w/ Ric Hanson
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Cass County Conservation Department Director Micah Lee provided the Board of Supervisors with a quarterly report on his department’s activities, during the Supervisor’s meeting Wednesday morning, in Atlantic. Lee said he’s checking prices and trying to obtain additional information, with regard to the installation of a pit-style toilet facility at the Outdoor Classroom site southeast of Massena. If they don’t prove to be too costly, the latrine would be similar to what can be found at Lake Anita.
Lee reported also County Environmental Education/Naturalist Lora Kanning saw 2,152 people last quarter, and worked to acquire a Resource Enhancement and Protection-Conservation Education Program (or, REAP/CEP) grant from the Iowa Department of Education. The $6,000 grant will allow the conservation department to purchase bird watching equipment, such as spotting scopes and binoculars, for the Outdoor Classroom. There will also be another “Trunk” with trail and tracking information added to the classroom building for students and teachers to look at the utilize.
Lee said progress has been made also on signage used to identify the southernmost trailhead for the T-Bone Trail in Cass County. He said new ID signs have been installed along Olive Street to point people in the direction of the south trail head location along Dunbar Road. Additional signs are being ordered to further mark the parking site for the south trail head, which is kind of obscured by brush and trees.
And, Micah says they’re working with the Iowa DNR to provide another campground entrance for Cold Springs State Park near Lewis, to alleviate congestion with campers trying to maneuver in the area. The entrance would be from the south, off of Park Road. He says there wouldn’t be any major changes to the park to accommodate the entrance, other than modifying an old gate.
Info from the Atlantic Animal Shelter.
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w/ Dr. Keith Leonard. Info on what to have in your pet’s first aid kit.
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Jim Field talks about getting enough good sleep.
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – Iowa has reached an agreement with a New York City-based online music retailer to refund a total of $40,000 in subscription fees to people who most likely didn’t know they’d enrolled. The Des Moines Register reports that eMusic agreed to make its enrollment procedures more transparent and will pay the state $3,000 for consumer fraud enforcement
Attorney General Tom Miller says in a news release that some Iowans had been paying monthly fees for several years, including one person whose fees amounted to $1,600. The agreement doesn’t indicate exactly how eMusic customers may have inadvertently signed up for the service.
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Mason City
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Ankeny
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Des Moines East
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10-1
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Southeast Polk
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8-3
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5
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Dowling Catholic
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9-1
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5
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6
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Iowa City High
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12-2
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7
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7
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Muscatine
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10-1
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8
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8
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Cedar Rapids Washington
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9-3
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10
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Waukee
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8-2
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10
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Waterloo West
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8-4
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Bishop Heelan
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Benton
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Western Dubuque
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9-1
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Waverly-Shell Rock
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10-1
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Dallas Center-Grimes
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8-3
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Indianola
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Perry
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10-1
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Cedar Rapids Xavier
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7-6
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6
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Washington
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10-2
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11
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Lewis Central
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7-1
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12
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11
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Harlan
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9-1
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10
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12
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Winterset
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9-2
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9
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13
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Charles City
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7-3
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14
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North Scott
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15
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Oskaloosa
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9-2
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Estherville-Lincoln Central
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Mid-Prairie
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Cascade
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Spirit Lake
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Bondurant-Farrar
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6-3
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North Polk
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Central Lee
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10-2
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Mediapolis
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11-1
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Mount Vernon
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12
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Center Point-Urbana
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10-3
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Waukon
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11
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14
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Unity Christian
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Nevada
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Western Christian
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Lawton-Bronson
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North Linn
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Aplington-Parkersburg
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Panorama
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North Butler
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9-1
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8
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North Mahaska
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12-0
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9
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9
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Des Moines Christian
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10-1
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6
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Manson-NW Webster
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Hinton
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Maquoketa Valley
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Hudson
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Iowa City Regina
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Central Lyon
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Colo-Nesco
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West Sioux
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9-2
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10
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Moravia
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10-0
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Bellevue Marquette Catholic
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7-3
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Preston
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8-2
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North Iowa
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10-2
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15
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There’s a big fuss being made over four tiny, fuzzy critters at one of the region’s largest tourist attractions.
Four lion cubs are being seen by the public for the first time at the Henry Doorly Zoo in Omaha. Zoo director Dennis Pate says a total of five lion cubs were born there late last month. “It’s exciting for us because it’s been 18 years since we’ve had (newborn) lions, 1994,” Pate says. “It’s been a long, long time and a lot of work on the part of the animal department to get the right male in, bring two females in. The females came from Idaho. Not sure where the male came from — Mr. Big — he’s a really big African lion.”
Four of the cubs are on display in the zoo’s Cat Complex with their mother. One female cub was smaller and is receiving extra care. So far, she’s thriving in the zoo’s hospital and will be introduced back with her mother and siblings once she is strong enough. Pate says the litter of five cubs — three females and two males — were born on December 29th. “They’ll be here for quite a while,” Pate says. “As they grow, I imagine we’ll move them over so they have the outside yard, a lot of room to run and play. They should be a lot of fun to watch as they grow up. By the time they’re 16 weeks old, they’re going to be moving around a lot. Come spring, summer, it ought to be the joy of Omaha to come down and watch these cubs play.”
The four cubs that are on public view now are very healthy, Pate says, as is the new mother. The zoo also has four African lion adults, one male and three females. African lions are listed as “vulnerable” by the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources. More information is available on-line at www.omahazoo.com
(Radio Iowa)