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KENTUCKY DEER HUNTER ARRESTED AFTER FACEBOOK POST

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MCCRACKEN COUNTY, KY (KFVS) –A Paducah, Kentucky deer hunter was arrested after a post on Facebook.

Robert Morris, Sr., 35, was charged with possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, hunting without a license and illegal taking of wildlife.

According to the McCracken County Sheriff’s Department, detectives learned Morris killed a deer with a rifle and posted a picture of the deer and rifle on Facebook.

Detectives say they knew Morris from a previous drug investigation. Morris had prior felony convictions for drug trafficking and receiving stolen property. Due to those convictions, he could not legally have a gun nor ammunition.

The investigation led detectives to Childress Road where Morris lived. That’s where detectives say they saw a…

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20-year-old hunter killed on opening day of W.Va. deer firearm season

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http://www.wsaz.com/content/news/20-year-old-hunter-killed-on-opening-day-of-WVa-deer-firearm-season-459388013.html

By The Associated Press |

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WSAZ) — West Virginia authorities say a 20-year-old hunter was killed on Monday, the opening day of the state’s deer season with firearms.

According to the Division of Natural Resources, Kenneth Franklin Lafferty III, of New Martinsville in Wetzel County, died while hunting with a rifle.

Described as “a single subject incident,” it was under investigation by DNR police. Further information wasn’t immediately available.

In another incident, authorities say a 12-year-old in Braxton County was receiving medical treatment for a self-inflicted gunshot wound to his left toes. He was riding up a hill with his brother on a utility terrain vehicle on Monday holding his brother’s rifle.

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Louisiana hunters arrested for deer-hunting violations in Nebraska

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By News staff |

LINCOLN, Neb. (Associated Press) – Nebraska authorities say eight hunters from Louisiana have been cited for several deer hunting violations.

The Nebraska Game and Parks Commission said in a news release Wednesday that the eight were cited earlier this month for illegal activities in southeast Nebraska’s Gage and Jefferson counties. The violations included hunting without permits, killing too many deer and borrowing deer hunting permits.

The commission says the carcasses of 12 illegally taken deer were seized and says penalties will exceed $13,000.

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Kitten euthanized after being rescued from steel trap in Covina backyard

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http://abc7.com/pets-animals/kitten-rescued-from-steel-trap-in-covina-backyard/2691877/

By ABC7.com staff

A kitten caught in a rusty steel-jawed trap had to be euthanized after being rescued by two sheriff’s deputies in Covina on Thanksgiving.

A concerned neighbor who heard a kitten’s cries in the 5000 block of Conlon Street called sheriff’s deputies at about 10 a.m.

When the deputies arrived, they spoke with the neighbor, who stated she had been hearing a kitten cry for a few days and was compelled to call authorities to check on the ailing kitten.

The neighbor directed the deputies to a nearby residence where she believed the cries were coming from. Deputies knocked on the front door of the residence and after no response, they hopped over that neighbor’s wall and entered the backyard.

They found the kitten with its paw stuck in the jaws of the trap. Using screw drivers to pry open the harsh metal…

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Poll: Nearly 70 Percent of Voters Don’t Want Roe v. Wade Overturned

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/06/poll-nearly-70-of-voters-dont-want-roe-v-wade-overturned.html

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They have the right to choose whether you have the right to choose. Photo: SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images

Depending on whom you believe, Anthony Kennedy’s retirement either means that Roe v. Wade will definitely be overturned — or else that it will probably be overturned (but definitely chipped away at).

Regardless, one thing is certain: If the Supreme Court’s new conservative majority takes the right to reproductive autonomy away from the American (female) people, the vast majority of the U.S. electorate will be displeased. A new poll from the Kaiser Family Foundation finds that 67 percent of voters do not want Roe v. Wadeoverturned. Opposition is overwhelming among Democrats and independents. But, in another sign that the congressional Republicans do not actually represent the consensus views of their constituents, some 43 percent of GOP voters want Roe upheld (the percentage of Republican Congress members who’d be willing to espouse that position in public is in the single digits).

Photo: Kaiser Family Foundation Health Tracking Poll; Chart: Andrew Witherspoon/Axios

What’s more, an analysis of Cooperative Congressional Elections Study data by the progressive think tank Data For Progress recently found that there is no state in the country where banning abortion in all circumstances has the support of even one-quarter of voters.

In the run-up to the 2016 election, polls showed that nearly half of Trump voters approved of Planned Parenthood. Shortly after Trump’s victory, that organization convened a series of focus groups with such voters, to understand how they could square their support for reproductive health care with voting Republican. Michelle Goldberg reported on the results on Slate:

In several focus groups, the moderator asked if people expected Trump to veto a defunding bill, and most hands went up. The new mother in Harrisburg pointed out that Trump avoided social issues in the campaign: “That was never Donald Trump’s platform.” Said a Phoenix man in his 30s: “I think this is coming from the bible-thumper mentality. I don’t see Trump having that mentality, but [Mike] Pence, Paul Ryan, those guys, it’s like they call up God from their cellphone. They’re so out of touch with reality.”

Conventional wisdom holds that this Supreme Court opening will help Republicans in November midterms by energizing religious voters. And there’s likely some amount of truth to that. But it’s worth remembering that these religious voters want things that the vast majority of Americans — and a significant number of Republicans — do not.

Marijuana farms are driving this adorable forest creature to extinction

A furry, cat-size carnivore called the Humboldt marten is struggling to survive in an area sprouted with marijuana farms, and now California wants to protect the adorable creature by declaring it an endangered species.

The state’s declaration would apply only within state lines and wouldn’t offer federal protections.

A member of the weasel family, the Humboldt marten (Martes caurina humboldtensis) lives deep inside the redwood forests of the Pacific Northwest, according to the Center for Biological Diversity. The elusive animal was once thought to be extinct, but it was rediscovered in 1996. The Center for Biological Diversity estimates that 95 percent of the marten’s habitat has disappeared due to deforestation. [In Images: 100 Most Threatened Species]

There are two populations of Humboldt martens remaining: a group of about 100 in Oregon, and another group of about 200 in northern California, right where cannabis cultivation is booming, The Guardianreported. In Humboldt County, California, where the martens are found, there are an estimated 4,000 to 15,000 cannabis cultivation sites, The Guardian reported. That’s in addition to the illegal operations and “trespass grows” on public or tribal lands, The Guardian reported.

Cannabis cultivation is likely the biggest reason for the Humboldt marten’s decline, The Guardian reported. Not only are forests cleared to make room for farming, but many cannabis farmers also use rodenticides that make their way into the forest food chain, killing anything that eats rodents, including the martens. Live Science reported on a similar story in January about spotted owls (Strix occidentalis) in this same region of California that are dying after eating prey killed with toxic rodenticide left out by marijuana farmers.

The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) reviewed a petition filed by the Center for Biological Diversity and the California-based Environmental Protection Information Center asking the state to list the animal as endangered. The marten is currently classified by California as a species of special concern, but a status review from the CDFW found that listing the species as endangered is warranted, The Mercury News reported. The final determination is expected to be made in August, The Mercury News reported.

Original article on Live Science.

As World Shifts to Renewables, Methane Leaks from Oil and Gas Production 60 Percent Greater than EPA Estimate

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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 27, 2018

Sixty percent more methane escapes from U.S. oil and gas operations than the Environmental Protection Agency currently estimates, according to a study led by the  Environmental Defense Fund.

The study, to which 15 universities and research institutions contributed, attributes the difference to the agency’s failure to account for equipment malfunctions at drilling sites, and processing and pipeline facilities.

According to the study, 13 million metric tons of methane – the main component of natural gas – are leaked from these facilities, amounting to more than 2 percent of total oil and natural gas production. The leaked methane is worth $2 billion. This would be enough to supply 10 million homes with gas each year.

The new estimate undermines the argument that natural gas is helping combat climate change, as methane is 80 times more potent a greenhouse gas…

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US proposes shrinking last endangered red wolf habitat

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By Jonathan Drew, Associated Press |

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The Trump administration announced a proposal Wednesday to shrink the habitat of the only endangered red wolves left in the wild, and to give landowners more leeway to kill any of the animals that stray onto private property.

Conservation groups call the proposal an extinction sentence that would doom the very last wild wolves.

“Wolves don’t read maps,” said Ben Prater, southeast program director of the non-profit Defenders of Wildlife.

An estimated 35 wild red wolves remain — all in eastern North Carolina — down from about 120 of the animals a decade ago. Another 200 currently live in captive breeding programs.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposal would limit their territory to federal land in two North Carolina counties and lift restrictions on killing any wolves that stray from that area…

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‘CONTROVERSIAL AND SICKENING’

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Trophy hunter kills elephants and rhinos without remorse… and says his only regret is how long it takes them to die

Produced by Mad Max star Tom Hardy, the film asks whether killing endangered animals for sport could save them from extinction.

CROUCHING over the king of the jungle he has just shot, hunter Philip Glass openly weeps tears on the lion’s majestic mane.

But this outpouring of emotion is not a sign of regret or sympathy for the endangered species he has slaughtered.

 Philip Glass, posing with his proudest kill, argues that trophy hunting is the key to conservation
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Philip Glass, posing with his proudest kill, argues that trophy hunting is the key to conservation

Instead, this American hunter is simply overjoyed at completing a lifelong ambition to take down nature’s most impressive predator.

Unperturbed by death threats to him and his family or the worldwide…

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