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Cheney Lake is drying up. Wichita says the drought plan is working

A fuel dock sits on dry land at Cheney Lake. A marina with several boats sits on a couple inches of water in the background.

One big rainstorm won’t fix Wichita’s water shortage.  Dark storm clouds that hovered over Wichita one mid-September softened the ring of cracked dirt that’s inched wider around Cheney Lake each week, but it didn’t erase the underlying problem.  Kansas is in a drought. For much of the last year, Cheney Lake, Wichita’s primary water source, […]

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The Black Hills are thick with lions. But those that leave are unlikely to repopulate the East, study finds.

Although cougars have successfully reclaimed much of the West — including parts of Wyoming — new research suggests that expansion to the Great Lakes region and beyond will require reintroductions.

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