While out in a wooded area off South Hope Chapel Road, a hunter fell from a tree suffering serious injuries and was airlifted to the hospital, police said.
Chief Mathew Kunz of the Jackson Township Police Department toldJersey Shore Onlinethat the 62-year-old hunter had suffered serious injuries after falling from a tree, but was able to call 911 from his cell phone.
Officers Robert Reiff and Daniel Scharff responded to the area just after 5 p.m. on December 14. They found the man about 300 yards off the road with the help of other hunters in the area. The man said a cable broke while he was trying to lower himself from a climbing tree stand. Kunz said he fell about 20 feet and sustained serious injuries to both legs and his ankle during the fall.
Two tourniquets were applied to his legs and pain medication was…
BY ALISON CUTLER DECEMBER 17, 2021 2:54 PM The hunter was a former educator in the community and found dead in a river. MATT ROURKE AP Former coach and principal Scott Stone was found dead on Friday, Dec. 17, in the Ouachita River in the Upper Ouachita National Wildlife Refuge, Louisiana officials told media outlets. He was reported missing Dec. 16 after he left to scout a location for duck hunting in the refuge, according to KTVE 10. The refuge is split between 18 miles of the Ouachita River, which is where authorities found Stone’s truck, officials told news outlets. TOP VIDEOS × Stone was found around 11:30 a.m. on Dec. 17 in the river, Lieutenant Wayne Parker with Louisiana Wildlife & Fisheries told the Monroe News-Star. According to the publication, officials believed he fell from his boat. Stone, 60, coached at West Monroe and Cedar…
“….. to be whole and harmonious, man must also know the music of the beaches and the woods. He must find the thing of which he is only an infinitesimal part and nurture it and love it, if he is to live.”
—William O. Douglas
In this part of Montana, most people view grizzly bears with pride, respect and wonder. But then I live in a university town that has to its credit some of the nation’s top grizzly bear researchers. I also live in a state where a Republican governor and legislature have declared war on wildlife. Wolves are being baited or called out of Yellowstone National Park by people eager to boast killing a Yellowstone wolf, due in part to Governor Gianforte’s illegal killing last year of Max the wolf, just…
A plan to eradicate a “plague-level infestation” of invasive mice on California’s Farallon Islands by dropping poisoned bait from helicopters has been approved by state officials.
After hours of impassioned debate, coastal commissioners voted 5-3 in favor of the long-controversial plan put forth by the US Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS). The approval comes despite the objections of local environmental activists who fear that rodenticide will kill not only the invasive mice, but also gulls and burrowing owls.
If the FWS regional director approves the plan as well, a poison drop over the islands, located just off the San Francisco coast, could take place by the fall of 2023, the wildlife agency said.
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Wildlife officials and ecologists conducting research on the island have argued that urgent and drastic measures are needed to eradicate the mice, which are a threat to endemic species – including native arboreal salamanders, camel crickets and birds like the ashy storm petrel. Proponents of the plan have said using the rodenticide brodifacoum is the only way to quickly achieve total eradication of the mice, which were inadvertently introduced to the islands by sailors in the 19th century, and protect native species that are projected to decline in the coming decades.Here Are 23 of the Coolest Gifts for This 2021AdNational Penny Gift Guide
Supporters of the proposal also include conservation groups like the National Audubon Society and the Nature Conservancy.
However, during hours of emotional debate ahead of the vote, opponents warned that FWS plans to minimize collateral damage to seabirds, raptors and other animals weren’t foolproof. The proposal details that FWS staff would begin by “hazing” gulls to ward them away from the islands before the rodenticide is deployed, using techniques including lasers, pyrotechnics and effigies. Burrowing owls and other raptors – who might eat poisoned mice and themselves get poisoned – would be gathered up and transported off the island.
Hungry raptors flying along California’s coast won’t be able to stay away from a feast of ailing, poisoned mice on the island, said Sara Wan of Western Alliance for Nature and will die of poisoning. “I cry at the thought,” she said. “If I sound angry to you it’s because I am.”
The person who shot and killed a fellow deer hunter near Knoxville this month will not be charged with a crime, according to the Iowa Department of Natural Resources.
Nathan Allen Sharpnack, 37, of Winterset, was shot about 2:45 p.m. on Dec. 4 as he sought to push deer in the direction of fellow hunters who were part of a 20-person group. It was the first day of the state’s shotgun deer season.
The group was hunting in a public area near Lake Red Rock north of Knoxville that is mostly wooded with rolling hills. The person who shot Sharpnack was about 150 yards from him. A shotgun slug struck Sharpnack in the torso.
None of the hunters had consumed alcohol, said Mick Klemesrud, a DNR spokesperson.
North Atlantic right whale calf off Georgia coast is only the second born this breeding season
North Atlantic right whale entangled in lobster fishing gear. Heavy traps connected to the ropes impede whales from feeding and migration, often leading to starvation.Photograph: AP
Ocean experts who are monitoring a North Atlantic right whale that gave birth while entangled in fishing rope say there is little chance of removing two 16ft lengths attached to her while her calf is young.
The endangered whale, named Snow Cone byoceanobservers, wasseen in a videofilmed off the coast of Georgia earlier this month by the Florida fish and wildlife commission. The video shows the newborn calf at her side and the twin ropes attached to her mouth.
She was first pictured tangled in the fishing gear in Plymouth Harbor, Massachusetts…
Montana wildlife officials have advanced plans that could allow grizzly bear hunting in areas around Glacier and Yellowstone National Parks if states in the U.S. northern Rockies succeed in their attempts to end federal protections for the bruins.By Associated Press|Dec. 14, 2021, at 7:35 p.m.
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FILE – A female grizzly eyes her new habitat in the Cabinet Mountains of western Montana as she leaves a culvert trap on Oct. 2, 2005. The bear, trapped in the North Fork of the Flathead River drainage, Sept. 30, 2005, was transplanted to the Cabinet-Yaak ecosystem in order to help boost the struggling grizzly bear population. Montana wildlife officials on Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2021, advanced plans that could allow grizzly bear hunting in areas around Glacier and Yellowstone national parks, if states in the U.S. northern Rockies succeed in their attempts to…
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