I have learned that this item will be first on the Conservaton Board
agenda -- it will be discussed shortly after 7 p.m. Wednesday.
Jane Clark

>
> 2)  There is an item on the Polk County Conservation Board agenda for this
> Wednesday, listed as "Iowa Primate Learning Center".
>
> This is believed to be a Ted Townsend project, to turn the county's Ft.
Des
> Moines Park into a chimpanzee research center.  It is to be called the
Iowa
> Primate Learning Center.   This park is in the southern part of Des
Moines,
> not far from Blank Park Zoo.  The park includes a nice timber, a small
> fishing lake, a few shelter houses, and some valuable and peaceful
> greenspace for southsiders.
>
> There will be a proposal presented at the Polk County Conservation Board's
> meeting this coming Wednesday, January 9th.  The meeting begins at 7 p.m.
> and this item is near the end of the agenda.  The meeting will be held in
> the county administrative building at 1st and Court, room 120.

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