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Energy Dept, may turn cancelled
super collider site into buffalo range
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The Associated Press
AUSTIN — Where scientists once
hoped to discover more about the
forces of the universe, may become a
home where the buffalo roam.
State officials and conservationists
have proposed restoring the site of
the defunct superconducting super
collider near Waxahachie into native
blackland prairie.
If the restoration goes forward, it
would cover 10,000 acres with grasses
several feet high, scores of wildflowers
and a small herd of bison.
The conversion would be the largest
prairie restoration in the United States.
“We’re surprised and delighted that
our proposal has been so well re
ceived,” said Jeff Weigle, director of
science and stewardship for The Na
ture Conservancy of Texas.
Last year Congress canceled the col
lider, which was to have allowed scien
tists to examine the collision of sub
atomic particles accelerated through a
54-mile underground tunnel.
Officials directed the Energy De
partment to make the best use of the
$2 billion in state and federal funds
that had been invested in the project.
In addition to the blackland prairie
proposals, several other post-collider
alternatives include a regional comput
ing center, advanced research in cryo
genics and superconductivity and can
cer research.
The blackland prairie restoration is
supported by the Texas Parks and
Wildlife Department.
“Our native blackland prairies once
covered more than 1 2 million acres in
Texas. Today fewer than 5,000 acres re
main,” said former Lt. Gov. Bill Hobby,
now a member of the Parks and
Wildlife Commission.
Until the 1880s, much of the black
land prairie was intact, stretching from
the Red River in northeast Texas to the
Colorado River in central Texas. The
rich, heavy, clay soils supported large
herds of bison, as well as pronghorn,
an antelope-like deer.
But the crush of agriculture trans
formed grassland into farmland.
Complete restoration of the area
would take decades, Weigle said.
The Nature Conservancy has recom
mended that the federal government
set aside $30 million, and that private
sources pay for the rest of the project..
Coach offers to take caning for Singapore vandal
The Associated Press
HARLINGEN — A high school
coach is offering to put his hide in the
place of an Ohio teen-ager who faces a
public flogging in Singapore as pun
ishment for a vandalism spree.
“(The teen-ager) will have to be
present when I receive this punish
ment for him,” Daniel Vogler wrote in
a letter to Singapore officials and the
White House.
“I can assure you that justice will be
served when he has to watch another
person punished for his crime,” said
Vogler, head freshman football coach
at Harlingen High School South and a
former Marine sergeant.
“I have a pretty high threshold for
pain,” he said.
Michael R Fay, 18, faces three lashes
on his bare buttocks with a narrow rat
tan cane in Singapore after pleading
guilty to vandalism, mischief and pos
session of stolen property.
His family and President Clinton are
urging Singapore officials to grant
clemency to Fay, who recently has
claimed his confession was coerced.
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