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To Save An Endangered Prairie Fish, Dried-up Iowa Wetlands Get New Life
Efforts to save the Topeka shiner have restored hundreds of oxbow lakes across Iowa. Now, those wetlands are helping to improve the state’s water quality.
By Anika Jane Beamer
The minnow U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ecologists pulled from the shallow moat was a puny thing, with a flare of orange rimming its fins and a dark band of scales running the full length of its inch-and-a-half body.