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Could 2023 offer an open season on feral cats in Licking County? At least one candidate for county commissioner thinks it should be explored.

During aforum Monday evening atCareer and Technology Education Centers of Licking County, candidates for county commissioner were asked what they thought should be done about theferal cat problem plaguing many area communities.

One group working to spay and neuter the animals said there are 130 active feral cat colonies across the county.

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More than 130 active colonies:Nonprofit seeks help in curbing Licking County’s feral cat problem

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Prosecutor Bill Hayes, who is running for commissioner in the Republican…

Published on April 26, 2022April 26, 2022  in News/wildlife

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By Jimmy Orr, Cowboy State Daily

A man who admitted to poaching a grizzly bear outside of Yellowstone National Park was suitably punished when he lost his hunting privileges for the rest of his life, according to an official with a Wyoming wildlife group.

Josh Coursey, co-chairman of Gov. Mark Gordon’s Wyoming Wildlife Task Force, said the punishment handed down for the Idaho man who pleaded guilty to charges connected to the shooting of the grizzly in March 2021 was appropriate. The grizzly was shot more than a dozen times.

“These are criminals,” Coursey told Cowboy State Daily. “This case was littered with criminal intent from the onset.”

Jared Baum, of Ashton, Idaho, pleaded guilty to the unlawful killing of wildlife in March, 2021. The death of the female grizzly also…

by Caitlin AndrewsApril 27, 2022

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AUGUSTA, Maine — A lawsuit targeting Maine’s ban on Sunday hunting is the first to argue that a new constitutional right to food trumps a major state law.

The lawsuit, filed Wednesday in Kennebec County Superior Court by a Readfield couple, argues the ban on Sunday hunting is archaic and prevents them from harvesting food for their family. They are backed by Maine Hunters United for Sunday…

‘Zoonotic spillovers’ expected to rise with at least 15,000 instances of viruses leaping between species over next 50 years

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/apr/28/climate-crisis-future-pandemics-zoonotic-spillover

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There will be at least 15,000 instances of viruses leaping between species over the next 50 years, with the climate crisis helping fuel a “potentially devastating” spread of disease that will imperil animals and people and risk further pandemics, researchers have warned.

As the planet heats up, many animal species will be forced to move into new areas to find suitable conditions. They will bring their parasites and pathogens with them, causing them to spread between species that haven’t interacted before. This will heighten the risk of what is called “zoonotic spillover”, where viruses transfer from animals to people, potentially…

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When Mexican police found a pile of about 150 skulls in a cave near the Guatemalan border, they thought they were looking at a crime scene, and took the bones to the state capital.

It turns out it was a very cold case.

It took a decade of tests and analysis to determine the skulls were from sacrificial victims killed between A.D. 900 and 1200, the National Institute of Anthropology and History said Wednesday.

“Believing they were looking at a crime scene, investigators collected the bones and started examining them in Tuxtla Gutierrez,” the state capital, the institute, known as INAH, said in a statement.

The police in 2012 weren’t being stupid; the border area around the town…

https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/27/us/california-drought-water-restrictions/index.html

ByStephanie ElamandAya Elamroussi, CNN

Updated 8:25 PM ET, Wed April 27, 2022

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(CNN)Facing the “new reality” of extreme drought conditions caused by a “changing climate,” Southern California officials aredemanding businesses and residentsin parts of Los Angeles, Ventura and San Bernardino counties cut outdoor watering to one day a week.

“This is a crisis. This is unprecedented. We have never done anything like this before and because we haven’t seen this situation happen like this before, we don’t have enough water to meet normal demands for the six million people living in the State Water Project dependent areas,” said Adel Hagekhalil, general manager of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, noting that conservation needs to begin in earnest now since water usage typically increases during the summer months.

Metropolitan is calling on residents…

Calls for a ban escalate as controversial hunting contests kill more than 60,000 animals a year.

Hunting competitions to kill wild animals such as coyotes (above), bobcats, raccoons, skunks, and foxes for money and prizes are increasingly controversial. Eight states have outlawed them, and legislation introduced recently in Congress aims to ban them on public lands.

BYRENE EBERSOLE

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/how-killing-wildlife-became-a-game

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PHOTOGRAPHS BYKARINE AIGNER

PUBLISHED APRIL 27, 2022

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LIBERTY, NEW YORKHunkered down in a camouflaged hut at dawn, Timothy Kautz trains his rifle on a deer carcass laid as bait in a snow-covered valley abutted by swamp and forest. Glancing at his cell phone, he reviews a recent remote camera video showing a grayish brown canine with pointy ears, a long, narrow muzzle, and a bushy tail snatching some venison.

So far this February morning, the coyote is a no-show.

“Maybe he’s seen too many of his friends…

National Park Service, wolf watchers and some state officials are making a push to dissuade Montana from continuing aggressive pursuit of naive wolves at the national park’s doorstep.

by Mike KoshmrlApril 26, 2022Print

A recent spate of wolf killings just outside of Yellowstone National Park has altered fundamental aspects of the canines’ behavior, and threatened the foundations of one of the most storied wildlife research efforts in American history, according to park scientists.

Twice in recent months Yellowstone National Park senior wildlife biologist Doug Smith and his team of researchers have observed highly unusualmating behavior.

Many more wolves have been getting frisky than…