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LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — A team of volunteers working at the Baker Wetlands has been rewarded with a nice view.

Spreading out to their east and south were grasses tinted with fall colors mixed with brush and trees still displaying the lush green of summer. That vegetation framed the pools that attract native and migrating birds and other wildlife to the wetlands.

The volunteers were there to work on a project that they hope will improve that view.

Jon Boyd, Baker Wetlands director, told the Lawrence Journal-World that the Westar Energy Green Team was constructing an observational structure at a s...