The Weldon Spring Site Interpretive Center in St. Charles, Missouri, is now open to the public, effective Thursday, Feb. 13. The Interpretive Center is resuming normal operating hours (Monday – Friday, 9am-5pm; Saturday – Sunday 10am-5pm). For more information on the Weldon Spring Site, please visit https://bit.ly/3FDmmm8, call (636) 300–2601, or email WSInterpretiveCenter@lm.doe.gov.
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Due to inclement weather, the Weldon Spring Site Interpretive Center in St. Charles, Missouri, will be closed starting Wednesday, Feb. 12 until further notice. Interpretive Center reopening information will be posted https://bit.ly/3gVF4eC. For more information on the Weldon Spring Site, please visit https://bit.ly/3FDmmm8, call (636) 300–2601, or email WSInterpretiveCenter@lm.doe.gov.
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The Maxey Flats site is an inactive, low-level radioactive waste disposal site located in eastern Kentucky that is owned and managed by the Commonwealth of Kentucky. The site started accepting waste in 1963 and continued until 1977. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) designated it a Superfund site in 1986. EPA signed a Record of Decision in 1991. In 2016, the commonwealth of Kentucky completed site remediation with the placement of the final cap on the disposal cell. https://bit.ly/3DumMcp
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Monthly Bird Walk: North Woods Saturday, Jan. 25 • 8-11 a.m. Join us at the Fernald Preserve on a new series of bird walks around the preserve. This month we will be exploring the north woods of the hickory trail. Red-headed woodpeckers and fox sparrows are regulars in this area in the winter and purple finches are found occasionally as well! This 3-mile hike on flat, but unpaved trails is a great experience year-round! Fernald Preserve Visitors Center 7400 Willey Road, Hamilton, OH 45013 All programs begin in the visitors center. To preregister, please email fernald@lm.doe.gov or call (513) 648-3330 and leave your name, contact number and the date of your request. 📷 credit: Fern Kofron
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Sports touch every aspect of the American Midwest, even the Feed Materials Production Center at Fernald, current site of Fernald Preserve, outside Hamilton Ohio. Fred Brandel Sr. was hired in 1953 and worked in Plant 6 as an inspector. He played college football and basketball for the University of Dayton from 1929 to 1931. His son, Fred Brandel Jr., worked in metallurgy over his summer breaks from Purdue University in 1957 and 1958. He was a defensive lineman from 1957 to 1959 and was named AP Lineman of the Week in October 1957 after recovering a fumble that led Purdue to a major upset against Michigan State.
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Short-Eared Owl Walk Saturday, Jan. 25 • 5-6 p.m. Everyone’s favorite wintertime visitor should be back and prowling the prairies of Fernald Preserve at sunset! Come join us on a 1-mile walk in the former production area as we look for the short-eared Owls. We recommend wearing sturdy shoes for this as the trails are unpaved and sometimes uneven. Fernald Preserve Visitors Center 7400 Willey Road, Hamilton, OH 45013 All programs begin in the visitors center. To preregister, please email fernald@lm.doe.gov or call (513) 648-3330 and leave your name, contact number and the date of your request.
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Jan. 1 – 31 Cold War Technology Self-Guided Hike The Feed Materials Production Center at Fernald was at the forefront of uranium-metals processing in the site’s Pilot Plant. This innovation, however, was not limited to Fernald. During the Cold War, the nation needed an entrepreneurial spirit to come out on top in the event of a war with the Soviet Union. Walk along our Weapons-to-Wetland Trail (0.25-mile paved trail) to see what inventions we still interact with today that spawned from a certain demand during the Cold War. Fernald Preserve Visitors Center 7400 Willey Road, Hamilton, OH 45013 All programs begin in the visitors center. To preregister, please email fernald@lm.doe.gov or call (513) 648-3330 and leave your name, contact number and the date of your request.
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The Madison, Illinois, Site is located across the Mississippi River from St. Louis. During the late 1950s and early 1960s, the Dow Metal Products Division of Dow Chemical Company machined uranium metal and straightened uranium rods for the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. In 2000, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) remediated the Madison site to site-specific standards and released the site for unrestricted use. In 2002, USACE transferred long-term stewardship responsibility for the Madison site to DOE. https://bit.ly/43GK61h
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Today, we celebrate the life and legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr., an outspoken champion of social justice and an icon of the American civil rights movement. Born Jan. 15, 1929, the son of a Baptist minister, King himself would go on to lead Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta. His work toward racial harmony in America earned him the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964. To honor his life’s work, Congress passed a bill in 1983 designating Martin Luther King Jr. Day as an annual federal holiday.
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Sunday Morning Sparrow Banding Sunday, Jan. 19 • 7:30-10 a.m. Join us at the Fernald Preserve for the Sunday Morning Sparrow Branding! Have you noticed all the sparrows around the visitors center in the winter? Come learn a little bit about these migratory marvels as we try to catch a few! Feel free to stop in anytime during the program and come inside the visitor center to warm up between net checks. Fernald Preserve Visitors Center 7400 Willey Road, Hamilton, OH 45013 All programs begin in the visitors center. To preregister, please email fernald@lm.doe.gov or call (513) 648-3330 and leave your name, contact number and the date of your request.
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