ByCarter Williams, KSL.com| Posted – Oct. 25, 2022 at 7:21 p.m.

The Utah Division of Wildlife Resources unveiled a possible new elk management plan Tuesday, which will go through a public process before it takes effect in 2023. (Utah Division of Wildlife Resources)

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SALT LAKE CITY — Utah wildlife officials are proposing a new plan to manage elk populations as their agency’s current plan expires and the demand to hunt the species grows to all-time highs.

Dax Mangus, the big game coordinator for the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources, says that the proposal seeks to address growing concerns about the ability to obtain an elk hunting permit and overcrowding during the hunting season.

“We evaluated a lot of different options, trade-offs, and ultimately, in the end, have drafted some really innovative new strategies to help with elk…

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The North Dakota Game and Fish Department will continue its Hunter-Harvested Surveillance program during the 2022 hunting season by sampling deer for chronic wasting disease from select units in the western portion of the state, and unit 2B in the east.

Samples will be tested from deer taken from units 1, 2B, 3A1, 3A2, 3A3, 3A4, 3B1, 3B2, 3C, 3D1, 3D2, 3E1, 3E2, 3F1, 3F2, 4A, 4B, 4C, 4D, 4E and 4F.

CWD is a slow-moving brain disease of deer, moose and elk that can cause population-level impacts under high infection rates.

Hunters are encouraged to drop off heads of adult or yearling deer atcollection locations. Fawns and head-shot deer cannot be tested. Hunters wishing to keep the heads can bring them to a Game and Fish district office during business hours to have them sampled.

Self-sampling kits are availablefor hunters who wish to…

Andrea Olson, EastIdahoNews.com

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Posted:Oct 24, 2022, 12:14 pm|Updated:Oct 24, 2022, 1:36 pm

HOWE — There is no sign of the 73-year-old man who disappeared last week.

Deputies from Butte County Sheriff’s Office and volunteers have been looking for Michael Faller of Idaho Falls.

On Sunday, search and rescue teams were out with a cadaver dog. Others on horses were also searching, according to family spokeswoman Ashley Countryman.

“There’s just no signs of him or even an animal if maybe he thought he had gotten one because he was hunting,” said Countryman. “There’s just no trace of anything.”

RELATED | Authorities searching for missing Idaho Falls hunter

Countryman told EastIdahoNews.com Faller went camping with his wife in the North Creek Road area of Butte County on Monday, Oct. 17. Faller went hunting and checked in with…

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 Raegan Miller, KRBD – Ketchikan

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October 25, 2022

Access to traditional foods has long been a priority for Ketchikan’s federally recognized tribe. But for decades, Ketchikan residents have been barred from taking part in federal subsistence hunts and fisheries.

Now, Ketchikan Indian Community is pushing to change that. It hinges on one big question: is Ketchikan a rural community?

Trixie Bennett, the president of Ketchikan’s tribe, said the push to designate Ketchikan as a rural community is a major step toward the tribe’s goal of food sovereignty.

“Our food is our way of life,” Bennett said. “Our food is the medicine, our culture is the medicine.”

If Ketchikan were classified as rural, all residents — Native and non-Native — would be…

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LAW ENFORCEMENTAdam EinckBaton Rouge

https://www.wlf.louisiana.gov/news/two-men-cited-for-deer-hunting-violations-in-plaquemines-parish

Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries enforcement agents cited two men in separate cases for alleged deer hunting violations in Plaquemines Parish.

Agents cited Daniel W. Boehle, 43, of Belle Chasse, on Oct. 2 for taking a deer during a closed season. Agents cited Eneas Mayorga, 37, of Braithwaite, on Oct. 21 for hunting deer without basic hunting and big game hunting licenses, and failing to tag and validate the deer.

Agents received a tip about Boehle harvesting a deer on the Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base in Belle Chasse on Oct. 2. Agents interviewed Boehle that day and found him in possession of a freshly harvested doe deer. The legal take for does in this area opened on Oct. 16.

Agents also received a complaint about Mayorga shooting a deer without the required licenses on Oct. 18. Agents interviewed Mayorga on…

NATURE26 October 2022

https://www.sciencealert.com/ancient-15000-year-old-viruses-found-in-melting-tibetan-glaciers

ByTESSA KOUMOUNDOUROS

Bacteriophages on a bacterium.(Graham Beards/Wikimedia Commons/CC BY-SA 3.0)

Ancient creatures are emerging from the cold storage of melting permafrost, almost like something out of a horror movie.

From incredibly preserved extinct megafauna like thewoolly rhino, to the 40,000-year-old remains of agiant wolf, andbacteria over 750,000 years old.

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Not all of these things are dead.

Centuries-old mosswas able to spring back to life in the warmth of the laboratory. So too, incredibly, were tiny42,000-year-old roundworms.

These fascinating glimpses of organisms from Earth’s long distant past are revealing the history of ancient ecosystems, including details of the environments in which they existed.

But the melt has also created some concerns aboutancient virusescoming back to haunt us.

“Melting will not only lead to the loss of those ancient, archived microbes andviruses

Scientists warn world ‘is heading in wrong direction’ amid rise in nitrous oxide, carbon dioxide and methane

Helena Horton Environment reporterWed 26 Oct 2022 11.00 EDT

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/oct/26/atmospheric-levels-greenhouse-gases-record-high

Atmospheric levels of all three greenhouse gases have reached record highs, according to a study by the World Meteorological Organization, which scientists say means the world is “heading in the wrong direction”.

The WMO found there was the biggest year-on-year jump in methane concentrations in 2020 and 2021 since systematic measurements began almost 40 years ago.

Methane levelshave risen rapidly in recent years, puzzling scientists. Some blamed it on an increase in fracking in the US but this came into doubt as industrial emissions were not showing a similarly sharp rise.https://interactive.guim.co.uk/charts/embed/oct/2022-10-26-11:23:46/embed.html

Now the theory is that the…

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USA TODAY

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Russia’sStrategic Deterrence Forces conducted a successful training exercise Wednesday aimed at delivering a “massivenuclear strike” in the event of anuclear attack, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said.

The exercise, overseenby President Vladimir Putin, involvedmobile ground-based missile systemsand the strategic missile submarine Tulaof Russia’s Northern Fleet.The Kremlin said in a statement that all the test-fired missiles reached their targets.

Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov on Wednesday pressed his country’s narrative – vehemently denied by Ukraine and the West–that Kyiv is preparing to strike with a “dirty bomb”and then blame Russia.

U.S. experts have theorized that Russia is either considering its own “false flag” dirty bomb explosion or is using the narrative to drum up more support for the war at home.

BIDEN WARNS MOSCOW:Using nukes would be ‘serious mistake’

Other developments:

►Ukraine’s largest private energy company, DTEK, says it has lost roughly…

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Montana on Tuesday detailed several recent incidents involving grizzly bears, including one in which two hunters fired multiple handgun rounds at a charging bear in self-defense.

Montana hunters fire at charging grizzly bear, but apparently miss©Provided by For The Win

The “defensive encounter” occurred Oct. 14. The hunters were walking on a trail in the Madison Range when they heard brush breaking and saw a large bear emerge. Both hunters fired repeatedly and the bear fled without apparent signs of injury.

The Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks Department stated in a news release that the female bear probably was caught by surprise because of the wind direction, and that her charge was in defense of her two cubs.

Remarkably, the bullets seem to have missed the large target.

RELATED: Biologists discover huge grizzly bear den with ‘spectacular view’

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https://www.wcjb.com/2022/10/24/fisherman-goes-missing-alachua-county/

ByRyan Wyatt Turbeville

Published:Oct. 24, 2022 at 11:38 AM PDT

GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) – The body of a man last seen fishing in an Alachua County waterway was recovered on Monday after a search by the Florida Wildlife Commission and the Alachua County Sheriff’s Office.

The Alachua County Sheriff’s Office confirms that ASO officers located the body of Glenn Lamar Carter, 36 on Monday evening. He was last seen fishing on Newnan’s Lake that morning.

Authorities say an autopsy will be performed to determine the exact cause of the death.