Hunting, fishing, and other wildlife-related recreation in the United States is estimated to contribute $122 billion to our nation’s economy annually (Photo by Ryan Hagarty | U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service).
An out-of-state group that is lobbying for the constitutional effort that purports to protect hunting interests via a ballot measure for the Montana Constitution may seem much more popular than it is.
HOWL for Wildlife, an advocacy group that supports the measure, boasts on its website that it has sent more than 40,000 messages to Montana legislators in order to get House Bill 372 passed. HB 372 is a constitutional proposal that would classify hunting, trapping and fishing as the primary preferred method of wildlife management in Montana.
A sophisticated marketing and lobbying campaign pushed through its website allows…
The Board of Game meets at the Soldotna Regional Sports Complex on Tuesday, March 21, 2023. (Riley Board/KDLL)
In its six days of meetings in Soldotna, the Alaska Board of Game heard hours of public testimony and weighed in on more than 150 proposals to change hunting and wildlife regulations in the state. Members considered nine proposals around the contentious issue of trapping setbacks, which require traps to be placed a certain distance from public-use areas like trails and campgrounds.
Out of those proposals, the board failed seven.
“I am disappointed at the decisions they came to and the lack of support the Board of Game showed,” said Lorraine Temple, who heads the Cooper Landing Safe Trails Committee — the group behind many of the proposals.
The group hastried and failedto get the same proposals passed before at…
A hunting lodge that previously belonged to the Murdaugh family has sold for $2.6million to two buyers – less than the $3.9million it was originally listed for.
[They try to justify hunting to control deer population, while out the other side of their mouth they kill predators to “aid the deer population.”]
Ben Leblanc of Mapleton poses with one of many coyotes that he has eliminated over the years while reducing the pressure on the local deer population. (Courtesy of Bill Graves)
I am not a big fan of coyotes. I am a believer in coyote hunting.
Regardless of the fact that the coyote-deer situation is natural predation, Aroostook’s harsh winters favor the predator, and in the end that notably affects the deer herd in certain areas. Anyone who has seen a pack of coy dogs relentlessly pursue a deer and down it, then begin feeding before the whitetail is dead, will share my support of varmint hunting.
Equilibrium states of the volume of the Greenland Ice Sheet (GIS) (black dots) with respect to pre-industrial as a function of atmospheric CO2concentration (top left) and corresponding temperature anomaly (top right). The blue curve refers to increasing CO2concentration starting from the pre-industrial GIS, the other curves to decreasing CO2starting from a completely ice free GIS (red curve) and from intermediate states (yellow and purple curves), respectively. The bottom panel illustrates the GIS thickness at the points A–D. Credit:Geophysical Research Letters(2023). DOI: 10.1029/2022GL101827
The Greenland Ice Sheet covers 1.7 million square kilometers (660,200 square miles) in the Arctic. If it melts entirely, global sea level would rise about 7 meters (23 feet), but scientists aren’t sure how quickly the ice sheet could melt. Modeling tipping points, which are critical thresholds where a system behavior irreversibly changes, helps researchers…
Lead author Karen Heeter takes a core sample from an old mountain hemlock near Crater Lake, Oregon, where at least one tree dated to the 1300s. Credit: Grant Harley/University of Idaho
In summer 2021, a stunning heat wave swept western North America, from British Columbia to Washington, Oregon and beyond into other inland areas where the climate is generally mild. Temperature records were set by tens of degrees in many places, wildfires broke out, and at least 1,400 people died. Scientists blamed the event largely on human-driven climate warming, and declared it unprecedented. But without reliable weather data going back more than a century or so, did it really have no precedent?
A new study of tree rings from the region shows that the event was almost certainly the worst in at least the past millennium. The research, published in the journalnpj Climate and…
But on Monday, each pleaded guilty to a felony count of cheating and a misdemeanor animal ownership violation. The remaining charges were dismissed.
The pair is due for sentencing on May 11.
Chase Cominsky, together with Jacob Runyan, has won a slew of fishing tournaments with cash awards and major prizes in recent years. The two were accused of cheating late last month, after organizers of a fishing tournament found lead weights in their catches. (WKBN)Read More »
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Chase Cominsky in a Cuyahoga County court on charges related to the fishing tournament (WJW photo).Read More »
Jacob Runyan, left, and Chase Cominsky, sit in court as they are arraigned, Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2022, in Cleveland. The two pleaded not guilty to cheating and other charges in a lucrative fishing tournament on Lake Erie in the end of September where they were accused of stuffing five walleye with lead weights and fish filets. (AP Photo/Mark Gillispie)Read More »
Chase Cominsky, together with Jacob Runyan, has won a slew of fishing tournaments with cash awards and major prizes in recent years. The two were accused of cheating late last month, after organizers of a fishing tournament found lead weights in their catches. (WKBN)Read More »
Jacob Runyan
Jacob Runyan
(WJW photos)
In the September 2022 tournament, anglers from several surrounding states competed for the heaviest walleye catches, according to authorities. The pair stood to win a prize of more than $28,000.
Nashville police have released dramatic body camera footage from two officers who fired at the shooter who killed three children and three adults at a school.
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. (KABC) — Drone footage captured a tailless “miracle” gray whale swimming off the coast of Newport Beach.
The whale was spotted making the epic 12,000 mile trek from Alaska to Mexico and back without its tail-fin, an incredibly important body part for the animal.
Most whales travel at a speed of 4 mph, but this tailless whale seems to be going around 3 mph.
It is still a miracle that the whale is swimming nonetheless.
Whale watchers say the whale seems to be a little underweight, but not by that much.
The whale likely lost its tail in commercial fishing gear.
The asteroid in question has been designated 2023 FL2 and was discovered just this year, according to the Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).
For those wondering how this measurement is being calculated, the metric is the total length of the nine-banded armadillo species of armadillos, including the tail, and not while it is rolled up into a ball.
How big is the asteroid coming toward Earth in 2023?
Asteroid 2023 FL2 is approaching the smaller side, as far as most asteroids go, with NASA estimating its diameter to be as much as 35 meters.
Let’s put that astronomical – literally, not figuratively – size in a more down-to-Earth perspective using an adorable armored mammal: The armadillo.
A small nine-banded armadillo. At full size, these little armored mammals can be just over a meter long. (Illustrative) (credit: Wikimedia Commons)
Of the 21 species of armadillo, the most common is the nine-banded armadillo, which can grow to as much as 107 centimeters in length provided it isn’t rolled up into a ball.
In other words, asteroid 2023 FL2’s diameter is just shy of 33 nine-banded armadillos lined up in a row, tail to snout.
In captivity, these armadillos have weighed as much as 80 kilograms, but undoubtedly a large asteroid is going to be much heavier.
Is an asteroid going to hit Earth in 2023?
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Residents of the US South and Central America familiar with the local armadillos may have seen them jump surprisingly high, but these armored animals are in no danger of curling up in the air and then colliding down upon an unsuspecting human with the force of a meteor.
According to NASA, this asteroid has no risk of hitting the Earth.
To explain, NASA JPL calculated that this asteroid will pass Earth at a distance of over 4.6 million kilometers. To put this into perspective, the Moon only orbits the Earth at an average of 384,000 kilometers.
So no, it won’t hit us, and at its size, it would probably be too severe if it hit the Earth.
For example, some of the previous recent asteroid impacts, such as the Corgi-sized meteor that weighed as much as four baby elephants that crashed in Texas, didn’t result in any damage.
In fact, armadillos might actually be more dangerous – they are one of the few mammals that are vectors of leprosy.
This illustration depicts NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft prior to impact at the Didymos binary asteroid system. DART’s target asteroid is the moonlet Dimorphos, which orbits the larger asteroid Didymos; the pair are not a threat to Earth. (credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Steve Gribben)
Do we have any way to stop an asteroid from hitting the Earth?
Thankfully we do.
The field of planetary defense is filled with scientists from all over the world working on efforts to stop asteroid impacts, which are arguably the single most dangerous possible natural disaster.
So far, this field has seen some promising work, the most notable of which being NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) Mission, which was launched to crash into the faraway asteroid Dimorphous in the Didymous system in order to see if its trajectory would be altered.
To put it simply, they punched an asteroid with a spacecraft to make it move, changing its orbital trajectory. And it worked.
Later, another study confirmed its success and scientists are now certain that humanity is capable of preventing a dangerous asteroid from impacting Earth, provided we have enough time in advance to get this done.
Now, all we need to do is keep planetary defense research rolling – like a curled-up armadillo.
Bragg received a letter with white powder and a note, “Alvin: I am going to kill you.” His office had received “offensive or threatening phone calls or emails.”
But, Manhattan DA is not the only person who might be in danger.
Trump mocked peaceful protests and called for “destruction”
The former president warned of “potential death and destruction” if he was indicted in his Truth Social post.
In it, he also accused “a degenerate psychopath that truly hates the USA!” Allegedly this part was about the DA.
Chase Cominsky, together with Jacob Runyan, has won a slew of fishing tournaments with cash awards and major prizes in recent years. The two were accused of cheating late last month, after organizers of a fishing tournament found lead weights in their catches. (WKBN)Read More »
Jacob Runyan
Chase Cominsky in a Cuyahoga County court on charges related to the fishing tournament (WJW photo).Read More »
Jacob Runyan, left, and Chase Cominsky, sit in court as they are arraigned, Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2022, in Cleveland. The two pleaded not guilty to cheating and other charges in a lucrative fishing tournament on Lake Erie in the end of September where they were accused of stuffing five walleye with lead weights and fish filets. (AP Photo/Mark Gillispie)Read More »
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