Let’s talk turkey. The Georgia turkey hunting season to be e…
Georgia Dept. of Natural Resources, Wildlife Resources Division
Mar 27, 2023UpdatedMar 27, 2023
Be careful when carrying a harvested turkey from the woods. Do not allow the wings to hang loosely or the head to be displayed in such a way that another hunter may think it is a live bird.@RichOutside
Before heading out to the woods for a turkey hunt, the Georgia Department of Natural Resources’ Wildlife Resources Division encourages all hunters to take time to review important turkey hunting safety tips.
“Talking about safety before you go hunting, and performing safety measures while…
Idaho Fish and Game officers captured and euthanized two mountain lions in Hailey in the past 10 days. They say the wild animals were exhibiting aggressive behavior.
HAILEY, Idaho — Two mountain lions were captured and euthanized by Idaho Fish and Game officers after they had become habituated to living inside Hailey city limits.
According toIdaho Fish and Game(F&G), recent mountain lion activity has caused safety concerns among area residents and have been deemed a threat.
A young lion was captured and euthanized on Friday, March 17.
An adult female was captured on Tuesday, March 21 and euthanized on Wednesday, March 22.
EAST TAUNTON — A coyote was put down after being caught in an illegal leghold trap in East Taunton on Sunday.
The Massachusetts Environmental Police received word of a coyote caught in a trap around Turner Street. When officers responded, they found the coyote suffering from injuries.
Due to the injuries caused by the trap, Environmental Police were forced to put the animal down.
Though the trapping of coyotes is legal during open trapping season, leghold traps are strictly prohibited.
Jacob Beisecker started a non-profit to provide off-road wheelchairs for those who need them (Credit: Jacob Beisecker)
HARTSVILLE, S.C. (WPDE) —Each month, ABC15 presents someone in the community with the Jefferson Award, an award that’s been given for 50 years to leaders who inspire action.
This month’s recipient, Jacob Beisecker, found a ‘way’ to ‘make’ a near death experience a blessing to those who may have given up.
“Christmas Eve 2020, I was in a duck hunting accident,” said Beisecker. “My brother leaned over on his gun, it went off and it shot me in my side. I was fortunate enough to get out of the woods.”
But that was just the beginning of Beisecker’s long road to recovery. The accident left him with a spinal cord injury causing him…
It’s been 5 years since the first Airbow showed up, loud and proud, at the annual ATA Show. If you attended the show, you no doubt heard the weapon being demonstrated on the range through the 3-day event. It’s gotta be the loudest weapon to ever grace the range at an ATA event.
Later that year, we posted anarticleaddressing all the excitement and controversy this new weapon was creating.Some thought this Airbow, which isn’t really a bow at all, would be the death of the archery industry as we know it. Others saw it as nothing more than another non-bow weapon trying to wiggle its way into archery hunting seasons across the country.
So after 5 years, we want to take a moment to revisit this most controversial of weapons to see how states are welcoming…
Published:Mar. 30, 2023 at 4:07 AM PDT|Updated:10 hours ago
WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) – Meteorologist Jake Dunne says it is a noticeably milder morning with wake-up temperatures in the 40s. Like Wednesday we will climb into the upper 60s this afternoon, but unlike yesterday skies will stay mostly cloudy and south winds between 20-30 will gust to over 40 mph.
Fire weather concerns in western Kansas today will spread across the entire state on Friday as the humidity drops and strong, gusty winds (from the west) continue. Red flag warnings have been posted as any wildfire will become difficult to impossible to contain.
An isolated storm is possible late this evening into the night. Some storms may be strong producing small hail and gusty wind, but most or all the activity will be along and east of the turnpike.
Russia to station nuclear weapons in Belarus, Honduras severs ties with Taiwan
nuclear posture that would lead us to adjust our own.
Chloe Taylor
Thu, March 30, 2023 at 3:44 AM PDT·3 min read
The world has entered a new era where nuclear war is once again a genuine threat, according to Nobel Peace Prize winner Dmitry Muratov.
In an interview with the BBCpublished on Thursday, Muratov said he was anxious about just how far Russian President Vladimir Putin was willing to go in his standoff with the West over Ukraine.
“Two generations have lived without the threat of nuclear war,” he told the BBC’s Steve Rosenberg. “But this period is over. Will Putin press the nuclear button, or won’t he? Who knows? No one knows this. There isn’t a single person who can say for sure.”
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Monterey County officials are warning people to stay away from the marine wildlife, as sea otters, seals, and other mammals on the Central Coast have been under duress due to human interactions.
Marine officials say it is natural to see these marine mammals and want to interact with them, but experts are saying to keep away from them, especially when you’re close to the shore
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As new data from the marine mammal center shows that there were 30 confirmed cases of harassment of seals, otters and sea lions in San Luis Obispo County in 2022. As for here on the central coast, there are, on average, 444 disturbances a year at Elkhorn, according to the Monterey Bay national marine sanctuary
“It’s incredibly tempting to want to get close and be able to watch them up close. but we need to remember that this is their home as well, said Dan Haifley from the Monterey bay national marine sanctuary foundation. So if we allow them to go about their business, do what their doing, live their lives, we can enjoy viewing them from a safe distance.”
Officials say that by law, beach visitors have to keep a distance of at least 50 feet from species protected by the marine mammal protection act.
The footage shows a group of 33 swimmers “aggressively pursuing, corralling, and harassing the pod” in Hōnaunau Bay on Sunday, the Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources said.
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March 30, 2023, 6:54 AM PDT / Updated March 30, 2023, 8:08 AM PDT
By Julianne McShane
Federal authorities are investigating a group of swimmers who were caught on camera allegedly harassing a pod of dolphins on Sunday in violation of federal law, officials announced this week.
A drone video deployed by officers with the Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources caught the 33 swimmers allegedly “aggressively pursuing, corralling, and harassing the pod” in Hōnaunau Bay on Sunday morning, officials announced Tuesday.
The 39-second clip the agency posted online appears to show over a dozen of the swimmers pursuing 11 dolphins. The dolphins eventually split off into two directions in the waters, and some of the swimmers turn around and appear to stop pursuing some of the dolphins.
The allegations could put the swimmers in violation of the Marine Mammal Protection Act, a law enacted in 1972 that makes it illegal to harass wild marine mammals, including dolphins, whales, seals and sea lions.
The act stipulates two levels of harassment, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration: one referring to “any act of pursuit, torment, or annoyance” that could injure a marine mammal, and another referring to “acts that have the potential to disturb (but not injure) a marine mammal” by disrupting their breeding, feeding and other routines.
The spinner dolphins involved in the Sunday incident are also protected by a specific rule published in 2021. It prohibits swimmers and vessels from coming within 150 feet of the dolphins within two miles of the Hawaii shoreline, according to Katie Wagner, a NOAA spokesperson.
Spinner dolphins — smaller members of the species known for leaping and spinning out of the water — may be sleeping even when they appear to be awake and moving through the water, the Associated Press reported. That’s because half of their brains remain “awake” while they swim, helping them to breathe and remain on the surface of the water.
NOAA warns that disturbing spinner dolphins could disrupt their daytime rest, negatively impacting their health and reproduction and leading them to become aggressive or avoidant.
Officers with the Hawaii agency’s Division of Conservation and Resources Enforcement, who were conducting what officials described as a “routine patrol” in the area, deployed the drone after spotting the swimmers from land on Sunday, Hawaii DLNR Senior Communications Manager Dan Dennison said.
The officers alerted the swimmers to the alleged violation while they were still in the water and then met them on land, where they initiated a joint investigation alongside the NOAA Office of Law Enforcement, according to the news release.
The swimmers have not been publicly identified.
It was not immediately clear what kind of penalties the swimmers could face — though NOAA guidelines say people prosecuted in violation of the Marine Mammal Protection Act could face civil penalties of up to $11,000 and up to a year in prison.
Officials urge people to observe wild dolphins from a distance of at least 150 feet by land or sea and to avoid circling, entrapping or swimming with them, NOAA guidelines state.
Ilove my electric car, dear reader, I really do. The driving experience is revolutionary, the acceleration mind-blowing and there are no nasty exhaust fumes or engine noise. After almost three years, I’m not going back: it is far superior, for my purposes, to a petrol-powered vehicle.
But I’m lucky. I can easily charge it and I never drive long distances with it. The Government’s plan to impose a UK-wide ban on the sale of new, pure petrol cars in just six years and nine months’ time is insanely detached from reality. The country and the technology are nowhere near ready for a full roll-out. Sticking with this preposterous timetable will impoverish and inconvenience millions and trigger a seismic, anti-green popular revolt.
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