In that era, original hunters were pursuing big game into oblivion, and taking birds for their meat and feathers. Conservationists are to stand at floridas pelican island. In 1903, president Theodore Roosevelt established this tiny 5. 5 acre island as americas First National wildlife refuge. And soon, the refuges followed. The Wichita Mountains refuge was created in oklahoma in 1905. To provide a haven for the american bison. Although these great shaggy beasts had once numbered in the millions, by the earliest 20th century, so few bison remained that the government had to ship 50 survivors from the new york zoo to form a starter heard for the new refuge. Other sanctuaries were decreed for from one and the open bighorn sheep. And after 10,000 elk starved to death by striking wintering grounds in wyoming, the government established the National Elk Refuge in 1912 and launched a winter feeding program. In the 1930s, the devastating droughts of the dustbowl years dealt another blow to wild
Washwhy its going to be shortlived. A lot of people and wildlife were outside today especially around the Jordan Creek Area to bask in the nice weather that broke a record good evening and thanks for joining us, im brooke bouma. And the record we broke . Today was the warmest february 27th on record in iowa. Although the weather was the talk of the day well see cooler temperatures this week. Lets check in with meteorologist Amber Alexander for a first look today couldnt have been nicer for Drake University the school held a groundbreaking ceremony for its first New Academic Building in 20 years. Collierscripps hall is a 15Million Dollar 50thousand square foot facility that will house the universitys school of education and the mathematics and computer science. Drakes dean of the school of education says this represents a seven year project of fundraising, program building, collecting, connecting, and counting on people all over the country. Janet mcmanhill, dean, Drake University schoo
Reno but i go back and help my brothers campaign for them. Laureen andrews i think it was wonderful. I think hes wonderful and that shes even more wonderful and of course he took out time to greet the crowd as he left. Raaahhhh from here hes headed back to las vegas where hillary is. For tomorrows caucus. Covering campaign 2016 erin breen channel 2 news. And Hillary Clintons opponent, Bernie Sanders, held a rally at the nugget in sparks today. Being the last night before the caucus, bernie didnt waste any time getting to what he considers the key issues of his campaign. Such as fixing a rigged economy he says with a corrupt financial system. Bernie sanders i am absolutely confident that nevada is going to say yes to moving this country in a direction where we represents all of us. Not just wealthy campaign contributors. Sanders spoke about the rights of women, gays, and the middle, working class. The crowd especially got fired up when he promised the Younger Generation free tuition for
Rubios 2013 water sipping state of the Union Response speech. Do you remember that and hes like this. And we will ah, ah and i need water, help me. Help poured it on. Its rubio [ applause and cheers ] as for whether christie wants a job in a trump administration, the governor ducked the question. He did say for once in his life he would like to make more money than his wife when he leaves office. She makes a lot of money on wall street. This is an unbelievable afternoon. I have to think all the years we have covered american politics, races for dog catcher, races for mayor, city council, president , secretary we have never seen this kind of language this kind of attack this kind of comedy routine going on. I cant imagine usually said to be orchestrated by donald trump he seems to be a master but if thats any indication, super tuesday still not until tuesday. So even more harshness perhaps on the way. More to come. This is just the beginning. More at 6 00. Definite change in game plan,
Side tonight. Officers were called to the 27 hundred block of boston avenue just after four this morning. When they arrived, they found a man in his 20s had been stabbed. Following whats believed to be some kind of fight at a party. Police say he was in stable condition when he went to the hospital. No word on any arrests in the case. Polk county says it has a problem on its hands. It needs an extra 7 million more dollars next year to keep its Current Mental Health and Disability Services. And its looking to state lawmakers to help them get this money. Channel 13s Reid Chandler is following this story and joins us in the studio with more. Organizers are asking lawmakers to take action this year to allow counties to levy up to 47 dollars per person in property taxes for local Mental Health and Disability Services. Right now, counties can only levy up to about 30 dollars. And thats been the case since the funding formula was passed in 1996. Thats why organizers with Mental Health and Dis