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Newspaper
Country Today
Location
Eau Claire, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1979
Page
20
In late August a mix of summer residents and fall migrants fills western Wisconsin skies. I counted over 100 nighthawks in ten minutes and observed mallards, wood ducks, swallows, cedar waxwings, kingbirds, robins, sandpipers, and late warblers. A goshawk nest was found high in a big oak, with a nearby warning about protecting the site.
Wisconsin lawmakers and the state Natural Resources Board debated a bill to impose a 5 cent deposit on all beverage containers with a referendum planned for 1980. Opponents argued recycling is preferable to a deposit due to costs, while supporters push public input and pollution reduction.
Wisconsin Natural Resources Board approved a 50 day split duck season from Oct 1 to Nov 24 with a recess Oct 8 to Oct 12. The bag limit tops at 100 points with varied duck point values and stricter steel shot rules, as board plans non toxic shot by 1981.
The Mortar Creek fire in Idaho, size 65 000 acres, required 3 000 men for 24 days at a cost of 4 million dollars before a mop-up crew of 10 remained. The blaze, the state's largest since 1934, was deemed under control by the U S Forest Service after rainfall aided containment. The fire began July 26 likely from an out of control campfire by a rafting party on the Middle Fork Salmon River. No commercial timber burned, but erosion risk could pollute Salmon River spawning grounds for chinook salmon and steelhead.
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