Statewide turkey hunting season to begin this weekend

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  • Mar 29, 2023

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SOCIAL CIRCLE- Let’s talk turkey. The Georgia turkey hunting season to be exact. The statewide turkey hunting season opens on private land on Sat., April 1, 2023, and on public lands, including Wildlife Management Areas (WMAs) and National Forest land, on Sat., April 8, 2022. Turkey season ends statewide on May 15, 2023, according to the Georgia Department of Natural Resources’ Wildlife Resources Division.

“Statewide reproduction in 2021 was above the average we’ve seen in the last decade, which means we should have more two-year old birds in the woods,” explains Emily Rushton, Wildlife Resources Division wild turkey project coordinator. “While still lower than what we saw prior to the mid-1990’s, the average number of poults per hen was higher statewide than it has been since 2011, which is a good sign for this year’s turkey season.”

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Conservationists call for immediate ban on shark hunting and finning in Sabah

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Tourists were shock to see dried shark fins sold along the sidewalk in Sinsusran area within Kota Kinabalu town.

KOTA KINABALU: Following outcry from tourists over shark fins being sold openly along Sinsuran sidewalks, marine conservationists are again pushing for a total ban on shark hunting and finning in Sabah.

Sabah Shark Protection Association conservationist Adderick Chong said that tourists want to see marine diversity in local waters and not along the streets of Kota Kinabalu.

“This cannot go on. Sabah must ban all shark hunting and finning, not just for certain shark species,” he said on Wednesday (March 29).

Advocating for overall shark protection, Chong said that it was impossible to identify which species of shark were being sold along the roadside without a proper scientific identification. It could be protected species of sharks but we…

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Tips for staying safe during turkey hunting season

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  • Mar 27, 2023UpdatedMar 27, 2023

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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

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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…

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Idaho Fish & Game euthanize two mountain lions in Blaine County

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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.

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Idaho Fish & Game euthanize two mountain lions in Blaine County

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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.

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Coyote euthanized after getting caught in illegal trap in Taunton

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MARCH 27, 2023 / 2:31 PM/ CBS BOSTON

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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.

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Anyone with information regarding the incident is asked to contact the Massachusetts Environmental Police. Reports can be made anonymously.

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Hartsville man paralyzed in duck hunting accident turns tragedy into opportunity

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by Courtney RowlesWed, March 29th 2023, 9:41 AM PDT

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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…

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Are Airbows Coming to Your State?

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By Brodie SwisherMarch 28, 20235 Comments

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…

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Wicked winds create wildfire concerns

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Extreme fire concern today and Friday.
Extreme fire concern today and Friday.(KWCH)

https://www.kwch.com/2023/03/30/wicked-winds-create-wildfire-concerns/

By Jake Dunne

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.

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‘People here are ready’: Russia’s Nobel prize-winning journalist warns nuclear war is being sold to the public ‘like pet food’

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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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Harassment of coastal wildlife rising on the Central Coast, experts say

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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.

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