Sycamore Land Trust‘s mission is to preserve the beauty, health, and diversity of southern Indiana’s natural landscape through strategic land conservation and environmental education. Sycamore Land Trust wants you to know more about the wildlife communities that depend on the land they protect. In 2021, they set up 15 motion-triggered wildlife cameras at locations they know are frequented by animals. …
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In this week’s radio rundown of ecological news, WFHB’s Glenn and Linda Lightner report on Researcher at the University of Portsmouth using plant fibers as a manufacturing material in cars, scientist developing drought- resistant crops and the Indiana Department of Natural Resources announcing that people can expect to see more coyotes through the winter. Also in this week’s news will …
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City of Bloomington administrators seem set on replacing the downtown Fourth Street parking garage, but the idea of repairing the structurally-unsound garage is resurfacing; City of Bloomington Utilities customers will likely see a $5.15 increase in their utility bills, next year; The Indiana State Teachers Association is pushing for teacher raises to be brought up, when the state legislature reconvenes, in January; The …
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Indiana’s Department of Natural Resources withdrew two controversial rule changes, which would have created a bobcat hunting season and would have required state-approved animal control workers to euthanize captured raccoons, coyotes and opossums; The General Assembly approved an oversight committee yesterday, to investigate issues plaguing Indiana’s Department of Child Services; Bloomington Public Works Director Adam Wason reports a rapidly changing, …
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