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The Kansas Wildlife department grew its own mussels. Now, it’s putting them back where they belong.

Stocking the state’s waters with protected mussel species is a new conservation strategy from the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks.This fall, the state released thousands of mussels grown in fish hatcheries into two southeast Kansas rivers that are struggling to maintain healthy shellfish populations.“The goal is to slowly work across both watersheds to get those populations reestablished and delisted from the state and federal endangered species act,” said Trevor Starks, a species recovery coordinator with Wildlife and Parks.The state stocked the Marmaton River with 7,175 Fatmucket mussels – a species that’s considered in need of conservation in Kansas.

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Kansas prison fires 2 employees, disciplines 6 for mocking injured inmate and refusing to help

TOPEKA — The Kansas prison system has fired two employees and disciplined six others for mistreating an injured inmate last month.According to inmates at the Topeka Correctional Facility, Elizabeth Wince spent two hours crawling back to her cell after hurting herself.Wince fell and tried to seek medical treatment, but was denied.

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Healthy Harvey launching county-wide book club

There’s no irony lost on Lori Kessler, Healthy Harvey Coalition Coordinator for the Harvey County Health Department, that she and the health department are launching a county-wide book club to read a book titled “13 Ways to Kill Your Community.”“It is a very interesting title, it is eye catching,” Kessler said.She said the book is a bit of reverse psychology, written with a sense of humor.

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