The 2021 season is coming after a record breaking season where the state was 1,184 bears harvested. A typical year sees numbers close to 700 or 800 bears. That is what Timmins said he is expecting this year.
“Last year, we did see about a 15% increase in license sales, which we kind of attributed to the COVID pandemic,”…
A man preparing for hunting season with friends was found dead near his tree stand Saturday, a half mile from a main road, according to an Upstate coroner.
Sep 6, 2021
ABBEVILLE COUNTY, S.C. —
Abbeville County Coroner Dr. Mark Dorn said Robert Morgan, 70, of Taylors, was found dead by someone in his hunting club just before 1 p.m.
Dorn said the person from the hunting club called 911 immediately after finding the body in the area of Highway 71 and Circle B Drive.
The area is so remote, it took 10 to 15 minutes to reach the body on ATV, Dorn said.
Morgan was on the property preparing his deer stand and surrounding area for the upcoming hunting season, the coroner said.
Investigators are working a second UTV accident and death in two days in Rowan County.- Advertisement –
A post on the county coroner’sFacebookpage says Morehead 911 received a call around 8:20 p.m. Sunday from a family member reporting an accident on Old House Creek in Morehead involving a side-by-side.
Investigators says 78-year old Bobby Tackett had been deer hunting on a family member’s property. They say Tackett was on his way out of the woods operating his side-by-side when he lost control of the vehicle. Investigators say it appears the UTV made a sharp turn, throwing Tackett.
Investigators say a family member witnessed the accident and called for help. The Elliottville Volunteer Fire Department, Morehead & Rowan County EMS and the Rowan County Sheriff’s Department responded to the accident scene, according to the social media post.
Tackett was rushed to St. Claire Regional Medical Center in Morehead…
News of dead prairie dogs found in traps by Santa Fe Place mall is a really big issue, bigger than most might think. These incidents are regrettable reflections of general human attitudes and conduct in the face of a mounting environmental catastrophe placing us at the center of decision-making that will affect the outcome of all life on Earth.
Prairie dogs are native wildlife, and wildlife populations are in steep decline as a swollen and increasing human population wreaks havoc on the planet’s life-supporting ecosystems. Here in the Southwest, our megadrought (directly linked to anthropogenic climate change) has forced some state agencies charged with managing wildlife to deliver water to animals for use at remote, artificial watering holes. A slump in deer survival rates prompted the Utah Wildlife Board…
Scientists have uncovered a fascinating new insight into what caused one of the most rapid and dramatic instances of climate change in the history of the Earth.
A team of researchers, led by Dr. Sev Kender from the University of Exeter, have made a pivotal breakthrough in the cause behind the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) – an extreme global warming event that lasted for around 150 thousand years which saw significant temperature rises.
Although previous studies have suggested volcanic activity contributed to the vast CO2emissions that drove the rapid climate change, the trigger for the event is less clear.
In the new study, the researchers have identified elevated levels of mercury just before and at the outset of…
Florida teen speaks out after Covid-19 sent her to the ICU03:22
(CNN)With the more contagious Delta variant of Covid-19 sweeping across the country this summer, health care workers and officials are finding themselves returning to acrisis experiencedlast year when hospitals struggled to handle an influx of patients.In the Southeast, Georgia is now seeing its highest number of hospitalizations since the start of the pandemic, matching peaks experienced in January, according to US Health and Human Services Department (HHS) data.Dr. James Black, director of emergency services at Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital in Albany, Georgia, told CNN’s Amara Walker Saturday that his hospital nearly doubled its ICU capacity yet is still faced with an overflow of patients.
“The emergency department is full and the hospital is…
The underwater cables that connect nations could go offline for months, the study warns.
A solar storm, or coronal mass ejection (CME), erupts from the sun in August 2012. (Image credit: NASA Goddard)
The sun is always showering Earth with a mist of magnetized particles known as solar wind. For the most part, our planet’s magnetic shield blocks this electric wind from doing any real damage to Earth or its inhabitants, instead sending those particles skittering toward the poles and leaving behind a pleasant aurora in their wake.
But sometimes, every century or so, that wind escalates into a full-blown solar storm — and, as new research presented at the SIGCOMM 2021 data communication conference warns, the results of such extreme space weather could be catastrophic to our modern way of life.
In short, a severe solar storm could plunge the world into an “internet apocalypse” that keeps large swaths of society offline for weeks or months at a time, Sangeetha Abdu Jyothi, an assistant professor at the University of California, Irvine, wrote in the new research paper. (The paper has yet to appear in a peer-reviewed journal).
“What really got me thinking about this is that with the pandemic we saw how unprepared the world was. There was no protocol to deal with it effectively, and it’s the same with internet resilience,” Abdu Jyothi told WIRED. “Our infrastructure is not prepared for a large-scale solar event.”
Part of the problem is that extreme solar storms (also called coronal mass ejections) are relatively rare; scientists estimate the probability of an extreme space weather directly impacting Earth to be between 1.6% to 12% per decade, according to Abdu Jyothi’s paper.
In recent history, only two such storms have been recorded — one in 1859 and the other in 1921. The earlier incident, known as the Carrington Event, created such a severe geomagnetic disturbance on Earth that telegraph wires burst into flame, and auroras — usually only visible near the planet’s poles — were spotted near equatorial Colombia. Smaller storms can also pack a punch; one in March 1989 blacked out the entire Canadian province of Quebec for nine hours.
Since then, human civilization has become much more reliant on the global internet, and the potential impacts of a massive geomagnetic storm on that new infrastructure remain largely unstudied, Abdu Jyothi said. In her new paper, she tried to pinpoint the greatest vulnerabilities in that infrastructure.
The good news is, local and regional internet connections are likely at low risk of being damaged because fiber-optic cables themselves aren’t affected by geomagnetically induced currents, according to the paper.
However, the long undersea internet cables that connect continents are a different story. These cables are equipped with repeaters to boost the optical signal, spaced at intervals of roughly 30 to 90 miles (50 to 150 kilometers). These repeaters are vulnerable to geomagnetic currents, and entire cables could be made useless if even one repeater goes offline, according to the paper.
If enough undersea cables fail in a particular region, then entire continents could be cut off from one another, Abdu Jyothi wrote. What’s more, nations at high latitudes — such as the U.S. and the U.K. — are far more susceptible to solar weather than nations at lower latitudes. In the event of a catastrophic geomagnetic storm, it’s those high-latitude nations that are most likely to be cut off from the network first. It’s hard to predict how long it would take to repair underwater infrastructure, but Abdu Jyothi suggests that large-scale internet outages that last weeks or months are possible.
In the meantime, millions of people could lose their livelihoods.
“The economic impact of an Internet disruption for a day in the US is estimated to be over $7 billion,” Abdu Jyothi wrote in her paper. “What if the network remains non-functional for days or even months?”RELATED CONTENT
If we don’t want to find out, then grid operators need to start taking the threat of extreme solar weather seriously as global internet infrastructure inevitably expands. Laying more cables at lower latitudes is a good start, Abdu Jyothi said, as is developing resilience tests that focus on the effects of large-scale network failures.
When the next big solar storm does blast out of our star, people on Earth will have about 13 hours to prepare for its arrival, she added. Let’s hope we’re ready to make the most of that time when it inevitably arrives.
LEE COUNTY — The Lee County Sheriff’s Office wants people to know that drivers who hit bald eagles need to notify authorities after a semi truck driver hit and killed one on Monday.
The incident happened just before 7 p.m. when Lee County deputies were called to 320th Street on Highway 27, nearArgyle, for a single-vehicle accident.
When deputies arrived, they found the driver of a semi truck who had hit and killed a bald eagle.
The driver told deputies he was heading northbound on Iowa 27 when the eagle came up from the shoulder of the road and struck the truck’s windshield, causing it to crack and cave in.
According to Lee County Deputy Jordan Maag, the driver seemed shaken up by the accident but was uninjured. The truck had no other damages besides the windshield and was driven away from the…
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