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SOAR's Facility

A 60' x 100' building was donated to SOAR by the city of Manning, Iowa.  The building whole buildingwas the old Veterinary Associates of Manning building. JS Construction and Mike Seidl Construction, both from Dedham, Iowa were hired by SOAR to tear down, move, and rebuild this structure.

By recycling an old building, SOAR saved 25 tons of materials from going to the landfill, including insulation, windows and doors, sinks and toilets, steel, structural lumber, plus tongue and groove siding.  The recycled materials cost half of new.  Passive solar design and an energy-efficient heating system keep energy consumption and cost down.

Building features:
The office space is heated through its passive solar design, and in-floor heating.  This room includes an observation window of the education bald eagles, and a bird viewing area through the large windows.eagle housing

Spirit and Liberty, the education bald eagles, have their own living quarters. The natural habitat display area gives the birds more room to move about and have access to more sun and natural weather conditions as if they were in the wild. The one large window area on the north side of the display area provides for easy viewing access for visitors during guided tours without disturbing the birds.

 

outside view of new intensive careThe Intensive Care Unit has its own space in the building.  When a bird is first brought in, it is looked over and placed here if it needs intensive care. Currently there are two intensive care rooms. The Carroll Community Foundation funded the building of a new heated intensive care room with scrubbable walls, a water hyrdrant, and a pea rock floor to aid in cleaning. Through the winter of 2011, this new intensive care room is being used by three osprey that needed to be overwintered.

 

 

 

 

flight penThe flight pen, 100' x 20', allows birds to practice hunting, and gain strength before being released.  A smaller 20’ x 20’ flight area is also used.

individual penThere are eight (8) 10' x 20' pens, like this one. Injured birds are placed in these pens until they have healed enough to work on their strength in the flight pen.

 

 

 

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