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Jan 7, 2025 | 
pantagraph.com | Olivia Cohen
As the number of freshwater mussels continues to decline across North America, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is seeking to designate critical habitat areas to protect the species. The service is proposing 3,974 river miles of the Mississippi River be designated as a habitat zone for four species of mussels: the rayed bean, sheepnose, snuffbox and spectaclecase.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
wcfcourier.com | Olivia Cohen
As the number of freshwater mussels continues to decline across North America, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is seeking to designate critical habitat areas to protect the species. The service is proposing 3,974 river miles of the Mississippi River be designated as a habitat zone for four species of mussels: the rayed bean, sheepnose, snuffbox and spectaclecase.
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Jan 6, 2025 | 
thegazette.com | Olivia Cohen
The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. Agricultural services company Heartland Co-Op has launched a first-of-its-kind loan with CoBank that will allow the co-op to receive an interest rate reduction if it meets multiple conservation goals.
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
snark.is | Olivia Cohen
When the PlayStation 5 debuted, its 1TB storage quickly proved to be insufficient for avid gamers, especially with the massive size of contemporary game installations. Fortunately, a software update introduced within a year allowed users to enhance their gaming experience significantly by adding up to a whopping **8TB** of storage.
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Nov 24, 2024 | 
thegazette.com | Olivia Cohen
Blanding's turtles wearing a transmitters were released into Swan Pond north of the Highway 100 extension project and the Rock Island Botanical State Preserve in Cedar Rapids on June 17, 2014. (The Gazette) The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced.
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
thegazette.com | Olivia Cohen
A monarch butterfly feeds during a dedication of the Orlan Love Prairie hosted by the Monarch Research Project and Linn County Conservation at Wanatee Park in Marion on June 25, 2019. The 6.6-acre prairie, honoring former Gazette reporter and columnist Orlan Love, was planted in 2017. (The Gazette) The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced.
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
newspressnow.com | Olivia Cohen
Nov. 22—The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. MARION — The Orlan Love Prairie — and other parts of Linn County's Wanatee Park — will undergo reseeding efforts after invasive plants threatened to choke out the native Iowa plants that were put there to attract and support pollinators.
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Nov 19, 2024 | 
ourcommunitynow.com | Olivia Cohen
The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. Eastern Iowa is poised to see its first snowfall of the season Wednesday afternoon, into the evening. Rich Kinney, warning coordination meteorologist for the National Weather Service’s Quad Cities bureau said the weather service is predicting “light dustings” of snow, with about half an inch predicted for the Cedar Rapids area.
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Nov 13, 2024 | 
newspressnow.com | Olivia Cohen
Nov. 12—The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. After an abnormally warm and relatively snowless winter last year, meteorologists are anticipating a colder, snowier winter this time around. Scientists are projecting a 60 percent chance that weather patterns will shift into a "weak La Nina," which could cause wetter, colder weather in the Great Plains region, including Iowa.
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Sep 22, 2024 | 
thegazette.com | Elijah Decious |Veronica Fowler |Laura Farmer |Olivia Cohen
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