With the expansion the refuge will cover about 10,000 acres. The area provides potential habitat for a number of threatened or endangered animals, including the pallet sturgeon, bald eagles, piping plovers, least terns, and the peregrine falcon. Whitaker said the state funding should pay for the projects. Both projects call for old asphalt to be milled off and new asphalt surfaces to be applied. The work will be done some time in 1998.
Council members can pull any items from the consent agenda for discussion if they want to.
The Liaison Officer Program has been in use in Blair schools for about four years, said Capt. The county plan is an expansion of that program. Officer Dave Wakehouse is the liaison officer in Blair. He instructs over 300 students in the drug awareness courses. Progress is slow, but, the message is getting through Wakehouse said.