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Saturday, October 01, 2005

Environment - Some stories today

Brownfields. "Wabash gets grant to clean brownfield" is the headline to this story today in the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette. A quote:

Mayor Robert Vanlandingham announced Friday the city will receive up to $250,000 to remediate the Swinger Shell gas station site.

The Swinger site was one of four sites selected statewide by the Indiana Finance Authority’s Petroleum Reserve Grant Initiative, according to a written statement from the city of Wabash.

Wild animals. "Breeder gives away most animals: 2 tigers, mountain lion allowed on property" is the headline to this AP story. A quote:
As part of the new agreement with the state, Hill withdrew his court challenge to the removal of the animals and will give away most of them, the DNR said Friday.
Unfortunately, this may not bode that well for the animals. I happened to ask a game warden in upstate NY last week whether they had deer farms like we have in Indiana. Not only that, he said, they also had "hunting" resorts stocked with former (old or ill) zoo and circus animals.

Forests. Marty Lucas, lawyer and conservationist from North Judson, had a thoughtful piece on Indiana's state forest and wildlife policies in his blog, BigEastern, yesterday (9/30). I recommend it - access Marty's blog here.

Posted by Marcia Oddi on October 1, 2005 07:17 AM
Posted to Environment