DES MOINES | To reduce the threat of Chronic Wasting Disease being transmitted in Iowas deer herd, legislation has been introduced to require double fencing of deer farms and shooting preserves where white-tail deer are kept.

Senate File 59, recently introduced by Senate Natural Resources Committee Chairman Dick Dearden, D-Des Moines, would increase the height requirement for fences around deer farms and preserves from 8 feet to 10 feet and add a requirement for 10-foot secondary fence. He wants to make sure the captive deer are kept in as well as prevent transmission of the disease by nose-to-nose contact between the captive deer and wild deer.

Dale Garner, Iowa Department of Natural Resources wildlife bureau chief, said the double-fencing would help.

Its easy for me to recommend that because I dont have to pay for it, he said after briefing the House Natural Resources Committee on Chronic Wasting Disease.

Dearden isnt worried about the cost of the fences as much as the cost of the disease in the wild deer herd.

Look at the cost to the Iowa economy if thediseasespread into the wild deer herd, he said. How expensive would it be if we lost our (wild) herd?

The DNR says deer hunting annually generates $137 million, has a $214 million economic impact and supports 2,838 jobs in Iowa. It also generates $15 million in federal tax revenue and another $14.7 million in state taxes, the department said.

In Wisconsin, Garner said, the lethal neurological disease has reduced deer numbers by 40 percent, Garner said.

The DNR spends more than $300,000 a year testing deer carcasses for Chronic Wasting Disease. There is no live test. Dearden said 42,000 tests of wild deer have not found one case of the disease. In tests of 4,000 captive deer, 17 returned positive.

Although fences will help reduce the risk of spreading Chronic Wasting Diseaseto the wild herd, there are no easy answers, Garner said.

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Published: Jan. 31, 2013 at 4:38 PM

MANCHESTER, England, Jan. 31 (UPI) -- Simple blast fences called baffles could act as "virtual chimneys" to improve air quality for people living near airports, British researchers say.

Placed behind a runway where aircraft are taking off, the baffles could funnel emissions from aircraft engines upwards where they can disperse more effectively, reducing the environmental impact on people living nearby, they said.

Researchers from several British universities have created and tested prototype baffles using funding from the country's Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council.

After preliminary wind tunnel testing, an array of three rows of baffles was installed at Cranfield Airport in Bedfordshire, an EPSRC release reported Thursday.

The testing proved aircraft exhaust plumes could be made to leave the ground within the airport's boundary fence, researches said.

"Airfield surfaces are typically covered with grass, over which the wind can blow freely," project leader Mike Bennett said. "An array of baffles makes the surface rough in an aerodynamic sense. This sucks the momentum out of the exhaust jet, allowing its natural buoyancy to come into play. By suitably angling the baffles, we can also give the exhaust an upward push, encouraging it to rise away from the ground."

Long-term ground-level nitrogen dioxide concentrations around many major airports in Europe have already exceed the legal limit enforced by the European Union, the researchers said.

The baffles could be a low-cost solution that could be ready soon, Bennett said.

"There's no reason why baffles couldn't start to be installed at airports within two or three years."

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Ringo Starr competing at the 2012 National Snaffle Bit Association World Show in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Ridden by youth exhibitor Brittany Donald. Won the World Championship in this class as well as in Youth Working Hunter. Ringo is a 2004 bay Appendix Quarter Horse gelding by Artful Investment.

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Steel security fences that keep people off Carlisles disused Waverley railway viaduct can stay for another two years, city councillors say.

Waverley Bridge in Carlisle

Their decision has frustrated campaigners who want the viaduct to be re-opened as a pedestrian crossing of the River Eden, linking the Cumberland Infirmary to Etterby and Stainton.

British Rail Board Residuary (BRB), which is responsible for the Grade II-listed structure, put up the fences in 2009 as a temporary measure to stop vandalism. It reapplied in 2011 to keep them for another three years but was given only one year by the council.

When that consent expired in December, British Rail asked for a further three years.

Planning officers recommended that it should be given another 12 months in the hope that, in the meantime, a trust might take over the viaduct and reopen it.

Councillors meeting yesterday opted for two years, with the proviso that the barriers can come down sooner if agreement to reopen the viaduct is reached.

Conservative Ray Bloxham said the graffiti-covered steel barriers were an absolute eyesore and a disgrace.

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