Western Courier

Ruthless neglect of wildlife on campus (6/4/08)

Abstract:
The cleanup of Western Illinois University's Lake Ruth may seem calm on the surface, but it has created waves of problems for the lake's innocent wildlife.

Recent Western graduate and Eagle Scout Erik Byers went to Lake Ruth when the process began May 19 out of curiosity and ended up helping relocate a 55-pound snapping turtle to a baby pool in his garage after wading through waist-deep mud to capture it....

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Bob Intrieri

posted 6/18/08 @ 12:00 PM CST

I was flabbergasted and dismayed to read Zach Wingerter's article on the neglect of wildlife at Lake Ruth. I think we have a responsibility as stewards of our community to respond to this issue. I hope that Zach will follow up to investigate about the decision-making process or lack of it that went into the Pond cleanup. I would like to know why appropriate actions were not taken before the cleanup began to secure homes for the animals that reside there.

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Shameful !

posted 6/18/08 @ 12:59 PM CST

This is absolutely shameful!
What is President Goldfarb's response to this ????
Immediate corrective action is needed now!

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Tom

posted 6/18/08 @ 1:12 PM CST

This story got me thinking...

Has anyone ever ate turtle? It is actually quite good and full of proteins. The turtles should be salvaged for the nutritional value. As for shooing the geese away.... How shameful!

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Yum

posted 6/18/08 @ 2:57 PM CST

Geddy was delicious, in a stew. Thank you, scoop operator.

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News?

posted 6/29/08 @ 11:27 PM CST

This was run in the news section? It is written in first person..I know it's summer but let's have some standards. Especially with the title it would have made a great column. A follow-up would be nice with quotes from the boy scout, crane operator and perhaps Goldfarb.

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Column

posted 6/30/08 @ 5:46 PM CST

It's a column accompanying the news story next to it on the front page.

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Can't keep everyone happy

posted 7/03/08 @ 3:57 PM CST

A first it was people complaining about the algae in the lake and wanted it to be clean for health reason. Now people are crying because the workers aren't done yet. As the saying goes "you can keep all the people happy none of the times and some of the people happy some of the time.

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