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April 22, 2021
th graders helping the ecosystem sounds a bit fishy… have we got a story for you.
Students from Benzie Central Middle School have been raising Chinook salmon in their classroom since this past fall. It’s part of the DNR’s “Salmon in the Classroom” program, where students learn about the Great Lakes watershed. They’ll be releasing the salmon into the Platte River this weekend.
Seventh Grade Science Teacher Marc Alderman says, “By connecting our students to their home place it really helps develop that love and caring of their environment and wanting to care about the ecological things we talk about…. invasive species, climate change, really being able to see that in their own backyard and having that connection of raising these salmon helps them connect to their local watershed.”
The initial spark of the idea came after Frazier attended a meeting with Summit, an event company that offers trips to beautiful destinations for recreational activities and discussions about wellness and global enlightenment. However, Frazier found the biggest challenge with Summit events was their price point. A ticket could cost thousands, and those interested must apply to attend. It s quite expensive, she affirms. I wanted to have those kinds of conversations but on a smaller, more affordable scale so it was accessible to more people.
New Thinkers aims to bring together like-minded individuals who want to make a difference and create change in the world. The group includes members who pay an annual fee of $137 to participate in conversations around problem-solving and to plan events that bring together local leaders and creatives who are making an impact.
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ZACH HAMMACK
Lincoln Journal Star
Listen to the predawn sounds of the sandhill cranes roosting on the Platte River in Nebraska. First, a murmur. Then wild chatter. And finally, takeoff!
The filing cabinets in Jon Farrar s Nebraskaland Magazine office were impeccably organized â full of images, articles and research sorted by subject, compiled over four decades spent working for the outdoors publication.
An accumulation of beauty Farrar discovered in the field through patient, meticulous work â like building an enclosure fitted with silkweed to photograph kangaroo rats in the Sandhills. Or capturing a grebe atop a muskrat s home on a pond. Photographing and studying myriad wildflowers of the Great Plains.
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In spring 2019, floodwaters spilled over the top of the Ditch 6 levee and submerged most of Hamburg, Iowa. There wasn t enough time to build the levee higher before the 2019 flood, like the Corps of Engineers did in 2011.
Two years ago, parts of the Missouri River and its tributaries reached record crests, and many levees failed. Now there’s a rare effort to build a levee higher to better defend one southwest Iowa town.
Hamburg, Iowa, sits five miles from the Missouri River, sandwiched between it and the Nishnabotna River. Just outside of town, the Ditch 6 levee stretches for a mile and a half, shielding the town of 1,100 people from runoff from the Loess Hills to the north and east. Built in 1998, it also serves as a secondary line of defense for Hamburg’s industrial buildings and homes if a main levee along the Missouri River is overtopped or breached.