Shiners have new home: Jerry Wiechman, MDC fisheries management biologist, released Topeka shiners at several streams in Harrison County on Nov. 3, including this tributary of Sugar Creek.
Jerry Wiechman poured hatchery-reared Topeka shiners into a narrow stream flowing in a grassy swale beneath a Pawnee Prairie ridge. The minnow-sized fish swam upstream in the clear water, a seep- and rain-fed headwater creek with fishes, amphibians and insects, a prairie brook often hidden by overhanging willows and native grasses.
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