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California wildfire triggers evacuations, closes highway
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Wildfire burns in Rocky Point, Monterey County, California, U.S., in this handout photo taken over the night of January 21st or 22nd, 2022. DEBI LORENC/Handout via REUTERS
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Jan 22 (Reuters) – A 1,500-acre fire near the coastal community of Big Sur, California triggered evacuations and closed part of a major highway, state and local officials said on Saturday.
The Colorado Fire, which has been active since Friday, was 5% contained, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire) said.
A 20-mile stretch of State Highway 1, a scenic north-south route on the Pacific Coast, was closed from near the beach town of Carmel-by-the-Sea to Andrew Molera State Park.
About 400 people in Monterey County were evacuated from 1,100 structures, a spokeswoman for the American Red Cross said, citing county reports.
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Hunter fires shot that ends up in child’s bedroom door
by:Evan AnsteyPosted:Jan 10, 2022 / 12:00 PM EST/Updated:Jan 10, 2022 / 06:43 PM ESTjavascript:false
TOWN OF CARROLL, N.Y. (WIVB) — A Jamestown hunter has been charged after police say he fired a shot that became lodged in a child’s bedroom door.
On December 4, Town of Carroll police say Mark Fanale, 51, fired at a shot at a deer, but the bullet went through the outer wall of a home and ricocheted off a bedroom wall before becoming lodged in the door.
The residents of the Warren Road home were there at the time, but no one was injured. Fanale had been hunting on private property across the road.
He was subsequently charged with reckless endangerment and discharging a firearm across a public highway. Police say he was cooperative with their investigation and will appear in court at a later date.
Plan to allow bear hunting in 3 WNC sanctuaries met with resistance
https://my40.tv/news/local/plan-to-allow-bear-hunting-in-3-wnc-sanctuaries-met-with-resistance
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ASHEVILLE, N.C. (WLOS) —The North Carolina Wildlife Resource Commission held a virtual meeting Thursday to discuss a proposal that would allow bear hunting at three Western North Carolina sanctuaries.Plan to allow bear hunting in 3 WNC sanctuaries met with resistancehttps://imasdk.googleapis.com/js/core/bridge3.495.1_en.html#goog_660808102Plan to allow bear hunting in 3 WNC sanctuaries met with resistance
The commission attributed an increase in bear-human interactions and rapid growth of the bear population for the proposal. According to data presented by the commission, there are about 7,000 to 8,000 bears across the state.
GOING VIRAL: BEAR FAMILY CAPTURED CLIMBING, SNIFFING ALL OVER CAR EGGED IN ASHEVILLE
The proposal would allow permitted bear hunting this year in Panthertown, Standing Indian…
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An attempt to ban mountain lion hunting in Colorado thrills animal activists, troubles hunters
As hunters flood lawmakers with emails protesting the proposed ban on mountain lion hunting, Sen. Joann Ginal, D-Fort Collins, pulled her name from the measure, Senate Bill 31
Jason Blevins4:10 AM MST on Jan 21, 2022
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When Colorado Parks and Wildlife commissioners in January 2021 allowed hunters in some areas to lure mountain lions with electronic calling devices, animal rights groups reacted with a new plan: asking lawmakers to ban hunting of Colorado’s wild cats.
“That was it for us,” said Aubyn Royall, the Colorado director of the Humane Society of the U.S. that has spent the previous several years asking state wildlife officials to ban mountain…
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Man arrested after fatal hunting accident in northeast Louisiana
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https://www.knoe.com/2022/01/20/man-arrested-after-fatal-hunting-accident-northeast-louisiana/
By Matthew SeguraPublished: Jan. 20, 2022 at 2:46 PM PST|Updated: 21 hours ago
MOREHOUSE PARISH, La. (KNOE) – The Morehouse Parish Sheriff’s Office says they have arrested a man accused of pulling the trigger in a fatal hunting accident.
Johnny Sanders, 60, is charged with killing Sam Stokes.
In an online news release, authorities say Stokes’ family recently reported that he had not been seen for two or three days and asked for help checking on him. Stokes was known to hunt in a wooded area near his home. That’s where authorities say they found his body.
Stokes had been shot in the shoulder area and it’s believed that’s what led to his death.ADVERTISEMENThttps://e2197a61ae19b7192b78e861cce09e64.safeframe.googlesyndication.com/safeframe/1-0-38/html/container.html
Investigators sought to learn about others who hunt in the area and that led them to Sanders. They say they discovered that Sanders had been involved and he was arrested.
Sanders was booked into the Morehouse Parish Jail on charges of Negligent Homicide and Possession of a Firearm by a Convicted Felon and booked into the MPJ.
MPSO added: “The MPSO Investigation Division did an outstanding job of collecting evidence and working to bring this case to a rapid close for the family. We would like to thank each of them for their hard work.”
Wolves in Yellowstone Part I: Can hunting and tourism co-exist?
https://assets.scrippsdigital.com/cms/videoIframe.html?&host=www.kbzk.com&title=Wolves%20in%20Yellowstone%20Part%20I%3A%20Can%20hunting%20and%20tourism%20co-exist%3F&kw=bozeman%2Ccam%20sholly%2Celk%2Cemil%2Cfish%20wildlife%20and%20parks%2Cgianforte%2Chunting%2Cjohn%20sherer%2Cmontana%2Cmt&autoplay=true&m3u8=https://content.uplynk.com/43567d9e640a45cf881ff31b40a0c163.m3u8&mp4=https://x-default-stgec.uplynk.com/ausw/slices/435/5210dc00f64c413bacd7236bfc59a2f2/43567d9e640a45cf881ff31b40a0c163/43567d9e640a45cf881ff31b40a0c163_e.mp4&purl=/news/montana-news/wolves-in-yellowstone-part-i-can-hunting-and-tourism-co-exist&dtrack=1&story=1&contplay=*recent&mute=1&tags=Outdoors%2CHomepage%20Showcase%2CMontana%20News&cust_params=temp%3D32below%26weather%3Dcloudy&s=kbzkAs of today, 21 wolves that are part of Yellowstone National Park packs, have been killed by hunters this season. Most of those were killed in Montana.
By: John ShererPosted at 4:33 PM, Jan 19, 2022 and last updated 11:10 AM, Jan 20, 2022
YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK – As of today, 21 wolves that are part ofYellowstone National Parkpacks, have been killed by hunters this season. Most of those were killed in Montana.
Reacting to the wolf hunters’ success, Emil McCain the owner of Yellowstone Wild Tours said, “There’s no reason to hunt Yellowstone wolves.”
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McCain has a good reason for his point of view. He makes his living showing park wolves to paying customers…
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‘The treeline is out of control’: how the climate crisis is turning the Arctic green
Reindeer pulling sleighs in Breivikeidet, Norway. Photograph: Morten Falch Sortland/Getty Images
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/jan/20/norway-arctic-circle-trees-sami-reindeer-global-heating
In northern Norway, trees are rapidly taking over the tundra and threatening an ancient way of life that depends on snow and icebyBen RawlenceThu 20 Jan 2022 01.00 EST
Altafjord is a wide expanse of black water on the edge of the Barents Sea, ringed with mountains. Alta is a relatively large town in the Finnmark province, the crown of the horse’s mane that forms Norway’s jagged coastline and Europe’s northern shore. Here at sea level the most northerly trees in Europe are moving upslope, gobbling up the tundra as they go. The people and animals that live here are trying to make sense of the rapid changes with a mixture of confusion, denial and panic.
Dawn at 70 degrees north during winter lasts nearly the whole day. The sun never rises, the day is…
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Scientists urge quick, deep, sweeping changes to halt and reverse dangerous biodiversity loss
by Group on Earth Observations Biodiversity Observation Network
https://phys.org/news/2022-01-scientists-urge-quick-deep-halt.html
Halting, then reversing the dangerous, ongoing loss of Earth’s plant and animal diversity requires far more than an expanded global system of protected areas of land and seas, scientists warned today.
Needed is successful, coordinated action across a diverse, interconnected set of “transformative” changes, including massive reductions in harmful agricultural and fishing subsidies, deep reductions in overconsumption, and holdingclimate changeto 1.5°C.
More than 50 scientists from 23 countries today delivered to governments a synthesis of the science informing and underpinning 21 targets proposed in thedraft ‘post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework’being negotiated under the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and scheduled for adoption later this year at a worldbiodiversitysummit in China.
The analysis was coordinated by two renowned international science bodies: bioDISCOVERY, a program of the Future Earth organization, and the Group…
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‘Like a work of art’: rare stretch of pristine coral reef discovered off Tahiti
Scientists say find shows importance of mapping deep ocean where coral can escape effects of global heating
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About this contentPatrick Greenfield@pgreenfieldukThu 20 Jan 2022 06.40 EST
A huge coral reef has been discovered off the coast ofTahitiin the Pacific Ocean’s “twilight zone”, offering hope that more pristine ecosystems are waiting to be discovered at unexplored depths.
Stretching along the ocean floor for nearly 2 miles, the reef, covered in rose-shaped corals, is one of the largest such discoveries at depths of more than 30 metres, where sunlight levels are much lower.
Scientists for the Unesco-led mission inFrench Polynesiasaid the reef, discovered in November…
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