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Titus County man arrested in connection with June hunting camp robbery
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By KLTV Digital Media Staff
https://www.kltv.com/2023/10/15/titus-county-man-arrested-connection-with-june-hunting-camp-robbery/
Published: Oct. 15, 2023 at 10:27 AM CDT
TITUS COUNTY, Texas (KLTV) – A Titus County man was arrested Saturday in relation to a June robbery at a hunting camp.
Troy Lynn Blackwell, 50, was arrested at his home on CR 1905 in Titus County after a warrant was obtained for a June 11 hunting camp robbery. According to a Facebook post by the Titus County Sheriff’s Office, Blackwell was one of at least two suspects in a theft that resulted in a missing Kawasaki ATV, multiple guns, archery equipment, hunting apparel, and an outdoor grill. Another ATV was believed to have been used in the robbery.
The post said investigators with the county worked to develop leads in the case, and eventually an individual came forward with information that lead to the recovery of almost all of the stolen items. The information also lead to the warrant for Blackwell’s arrest.
Blackwell was arrested Saturday and booked into the Titus County Jail on charges of burglary of a building, theft of a firearm, and unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon. His bonds total $40,000.
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Theodore Roosevelt National Park to remove nearly half its bison population
700-bison herd to be reduced to about 400
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Published October 13, 2023 4:07pm EDT
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National park officials are planning to gather and reduce the bison herd in Theodore Roosevelt National Park in North Dakota, rehoming the animals to a number of Native American tribes.
The “bison capture” is scheduled to start on Saturday and continue through the week in the park’s South Unit near Medora. The operation will be closed to the public for safety reasons.
The park plans to reduce its roughly 700 bison to 400. The park will remove bison of differing ages.
A bison grazes at Theodore Roosevelt National Park in western North Dakota, May 24, 2017. (AP Photo/Blake Nicholson, File)
Bison removed from the park will be rehomed and come under tribal management, InterTribal Buffalo Council Executive Director Troy Heinert told The Associated Press.
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The bison will provide genetic diversity and increase numbers of existing tribal herds, he said. The Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation and the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe will receive bison; more bison could go to other tribes, depending on demographics, said Heinert, who is Sicangu Lakota.
A helicopter will herd bison into a holding area, with a survey of the landscape and a population count before the gathering of the bison.
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Factory fishing in Antarctica for krill targets the cornerstone of a fragile ecosystem
by: JOSHUA GOODMAN and DAVID KEYTON, Associated Press
Posted: Oct 14, 2023 / 11:00 AM EDT
Updated: Oct 13, 2023 / 11:29 AM EDT
ABOARD THE ALLANKAY off Antarctica (AP) — The Antarctic Endeavour glides across the water’s silky surface as dozens of fin whales spray rainbows from their blowholes into a fairy tale icescape of massive glaciers.
But as a patrol of environmentalists approaches the Chilean super trawler in an inflatable boat, the cruder realities of modern industrial fishing come into view.
From one of the ship’s drain holes, a steaming pink sludge cascades into the frigid waters of the Southern Ocean. It’s the foul-smelling runoff from processing the 80-meter (260-foot) factory ship’s valuable catch: Antarctic krill, a paper-clip-sized crustacean central to the region’s food web and, scientists say, an important buffer to global warming.
“What’s coming out of the side are the remnants of the ecosystem,” says Alistair Allan, an activist for Australia’s Bob Brown Foundation, as he looks on from the inflatable boat. “If this was off the coast of Alaska, it would be a national park. But since it’s down here at the bottom of the world, where no one is watching, you have ships almost running into whales feeding on the same things they’re fishing.”
While krill fishing is banned in U.S. waters due to concerns it could impact whales, seals and other animals that feed on the shrimp-like creatures, it’s been taking place for decades in Antarctica, where krill are most abundant. It started in the 1960s, when the Soviet Union launched an industrial fleet of trawlers in search of an untapped protein source that could be canned like sardines.
Surging demand for nutrient-rich krill — for feeding farm-raised fish, omega-3 pills, pet food and protein shakes — combined with advances in fishing and the still unknown impact from climate change has some scientists warning the fishery is at a critical juncture and in urgent need of stricter controls. But any further action is mired in geopolitical wrangling as Russia and China look to quickly expand the catch.
Two Associated Press journalists spent more than two weeks at sea in March, at the tail end of the Southern Hemisphere’s summer, aboard the Dutch-flagged Allankay, operated by the conservation group Sea Shepherd Global, to take a rare, up-close look at the world’s southernmost fishery.
It’s a harvest that by its very nature operates at the extremes — hundreds of miles from any port.
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This story was supported by funding from the Walton Family Foundation. The AP is solely responsible for all content.
