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Help In Tough Times
Rapid City Journal staff, Sunday May 24, 2009
For those looking for work, looking to save money or just looking for free fun, the Journal provides these helpful tips to make it through this challenging economy.
Who’s Hiring?
EMPLOYER: Wildlife Experiences, Inc., a nonprofit company
LOCATION: Behind the scenes of Reptile Gardens
JOB TITLE: Animal care/ animal husbandry; $6.55 per hour, going to $7.25 in July.
Each week, the Rapid City Journal will highlight a job opening found in the classified advertising section. This week, we spoke with Maggie Engler of Wildlife Experiences, Inc.
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Organization swoops into town to educate area residents about birds
by Jane Hinrichs; Monday, Mar 02, 2009
BLUNT — The feathers were flying in the Agar-Blunt-Onida School District Friday as representatives from Wildlife Experience Inc., out of Rapid City, put on a “Birds of Prey” program.
Lead educator Julia Avison and general curator Becky Svalstad took turns talking about and showing the students four different raptors they brought with them. Prior to bringing out the first bird, Avison asked the students to keep the noise level down.
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Raptor Rescue proves difficult
By Kristin Donnan Standard Special to the Rapid City Journal Saturday April 4, 2009
It was 17 degrees and snowing a steady, light, curtain-like snow. Because of that, I didn’t see him at first. It was my dog who alerted me, when it bounded over and huffed at me, and then cautiously sat, starting at a startling image.
Christ-like, a ghost was suspended in mid-air, staring with piercing, orange, angry eyes. It was a youthful Great Horned Owl, wings outstretched, skewered on our barbed wire fence.
On this Saturday morning, I had no idea that the perfect storm of circumstance was brewing. All I knew what that this bird was going to freeze if we didn’t do something, and the less my family touched the owl, the better.
I called our local wildlife officer, who was in the field, out of range. As Game, Fish & Parks dispatchers paged the officer, my husband and our friend, both wildlife savvy, confirmed that easy disengagement of Owl was impossible.
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