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October 2022 marked the 20th anniversary Dream Hunt in Southern Illinois for children with disabilities and life-threatening illnesses.

Brigid O’Donoghue is the founder and CEO of the United Special Sportsman Alliance, the non-profit that put on the weekend hunting trip near Harrisburg.

“For children with disabilities and life-threatening illnesses, it’s hard for them to find a place where they feel comfortable. Some of them are not even allowed to do sports in school,” O’Donoghue told The Center Square. “That’s the good thing about hunting and fishing. No matter what their disability is, we can get them out in the great outdoors.”

She said hunting builds confidence and gives the kids skills that make them proud.

“They come in a little anxious because most of them have not been hunting before…

By Jim McKinneyOct 23, 2022 | 7:34 AM

CASSOPOLIS MI (WKZO AM/FM) –Cass County authorities are continuing their investigation into an accidental drowning Friday morning.

Deputies were called to Belas Lake in Penn Township after 7 am, and discovered an empty kayak at the northwest corner of the lake.

Hunting equipment was also found at the scene.

A further search resulted in the discovery of 50-year-old Terry Allen Westphal of Cassopolis.

Initial investigation indicated that Westphal had apparently fallen out of the kayak and drowned.

Cass County deputies were assisted at the scene by Newberg Township Ambulance and Cass County Marine Division.

A 65-year-old Evanston man was flown to the University of Utah for injuries he sustained in a grizzly bear attack Friday.

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PINEDALE—A 65-year-old Evanston man was flown to the University of Utah for injuries he sustained in a grizzly bear attack Friday while he was hunting with his son. The man drew his hand gun and fired several rounds, which caused the bear to disengage and flee. However, one of the rounds struck him in the lower leg.

The Sublette County Sheriff’s Office (SCSO) and Tip Top Search and Rescue responded to a call of a man injured by a grizzly bear attack at the head of Rock Creek Friday, according to a press release from the SCSO.

On October 21 at 5:52 p.m. Sublette County Dispatch received an SOS activated 911 call of…

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Alaska snow crab harvest canceled for first time ever

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Climate changeis a prime suspect in a mass die-off of Alaska’s snow crabs, experts say, after the state took the unprecedented step ofcanceling their harvest this seasonto save the species.

According to an annual survey of the Bering Sea floor carried out by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, estimates for the crustaceans’ total numbers fell to about 1.9 billion in 2022, down from 11.7 billion in 2018, or a reduction of about 84 percent.

For the first time ever, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game announced the Bering Sea snow crab season will remain closed for 2022-23, saying in a statement efforts must turn to “conservation and rebuilding given the condition of the stock.” The state’s fisheries produce 60% of the…

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Two expeditions to the Thwaites Ice Shelf have revealed that it could splinter apart in less than a decade, hastening sea-level rise worldwide

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On December 26, 2019, Erin Pettit trudged across a plain of glaring snow and ice, dragging an ice-penetrating radar unit the size of a large suitcase on a red plastic sled behind her. The brittle snow crunched like cornflakes underneath her boots—evidence that it had recently melted and refrozen following a series of warm summer days. Pettit was…

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AMSTERDAM, Oct 20 (Reuters) – The Netherlands is to cull another 300,000 chickens on a farm in the south of the country after the detection of a highly infectious strain of bird flu there, the government said on Thursday.

Around 30 cases of the highly lethal form of avian flu have been reported in the Netherlands since early September, following dozens of cases earlier in the year.

Almost 6 million birds have already been culled in the Netherlands since the new variant of the disease was first detected on Oct 26 last year, the Dutch food safety authority said on Thursday.

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The world’s oceans have been warming for generations, a trend that is accelerating and threatens to fuel more supercharged storms, devastate marine ecosystems and upend the lives and livelihoods of millions of people, according to a new scientific analysis.

Oceans are warming faster than ever. Here’s what could come next.©Dita Alangkara/AP

Publishedthis week in the journal Nature Reviews, it finds that the upper reaches of the oceans — roughly the top 2,000 meters, or just over a mile — have been heating up around the planet since at least the 1950s, with the most stark changes observed in the Atlantic and Southern oceans.

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The authors of the review, who include scientists from China, France, the United States and Australia, write that data shows the heating has both accelerated…

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More than forty years since the global moratorium on commercial whaling was adopted, it is justly regarded asone of the most important conservation and animal protection measures of all time. By most estimates it’s saved hundreds of thousands ofwhalesfrom the harpoon and prevented the extinction of several species and population groups.

We’ve never let up in our efforts to defend the moratorium. It’s come under attack again and again at the International Whaling Commission and in other contexts. And this week and next, we’re defending it again at the 68^thmeeting of the IWC in Portorož, Slovenia, where the determined campaign of Japan and its allies at the IWC to subvert the moratorium and other conservation measures continues. Japan is one…

Sept. 25, 2022Updated Wed., Sept. 28, 2022 at 6:47 a.m.

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