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December 5, 2024

Rain, snow bring relief to crews battling wildfires in New York after nearly 6,000 acres burn

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The arrival of winter weather in the form of recent rain and snowstorms that blanketed much of New York on Nov. 21 and 28 (Thanksgiving Day) provided some much-needed relief to crews battling wildfires, primarily in Southeastern New York.
On Nov. 22, Gov. Kathy Hochul’s office announced that after 14 days, the Jennings Creek/Sterling Forest State Park wildfire on the New York border with New Jersey was fully contained.

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Iowa’s Missouri and Big Sioux River paddlefish license on sale Dec. 15

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Iowa anglers can buy the Missouri and Big Sioux River paddlefish license and tags from Dec. 15 through Jan. 7.
Buy your special paddlefish license and tags on the Iowa DNR online licenses sales website. A resident license sells for $25.50 and a nonresident license is $49. Anglers must also have a valid Iowa fishing license.

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Looking for muzzleloader success? Find the deer, then proceed with caution

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As the chaos of various general firearms seasons comes to a close, a new group of hunters emerges. They used to be the kind of folks who you might see wearing genuine buckskin, and who expected to be engulfed in a cloud of smoke if they were lucky enough to shoot at a deer.
Most muzzleloader hunters these days are a bit different from the old-school hunters. They use inline smokepoles that can group downrange as tightly as your average deer rifle. This, along with the option to scope their muzzleloaders, often leads folks to hunt like they would during the general firearms season.
That can be a big mistake.

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Steve Pollick: Owls make fine friends at Froggy Bottom in Ohio’s Sandusky County

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Some hunters have been prowling Froggy Bottom here at night lately, but they are not jacklighting deer poachers.
A screech owl and a great horned owl are the culprits. The little screech – a tufted-ear, gray-phase version of this robin-sized owl – showed up on the 12th for the third November in a row, renewing winter residence in a 40-year-old wood duck box that prior to his arrival was unused by woodies or anything else.

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Conservation groups seek more clarity on Minnesota wage law

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In mid-September, various conservation organizations met with Minnesota Department of Labor officials at a meeting to clarify the changes to the prevailing wage law that now will affect environment and conservation work.
After that meeting, the organizations sent a list of job descriptions that employees may complete on an environment project, and the Department of Labor tied those jobs to existing prevailing wage rates. The changes will almost double the hourly wage of conservation workers on various projects funded by the Legacy Amendment’s Outdoor Heritage Fund.

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Mike Schoonveld: What’s next, plastic clouds? Researchers looking into it

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The title of the vintage TV sitcom, 3rd Rock From The Sun, was a somewhat apt description of our planet.
The Earth is the third planet in our sun’s solar system and it’s mostly rock of various kinds. Earth also features water, metals and organic matter, but there is far more rock than anything else. The Earth’s rocks come in many sizes and forms.

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Reader stories: A wolverine sighting? Michigan turkey hunter says he saw one in Kalkaska County

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While sitting in a deer blind last fall in a wilderness area north of Iron Mountain, Mich., a coyote came out of the swamp right in front of me.
The coyote was redish in color, like a red fox. By the time I realized it was way too big to be a red fox, it yipped a couple times and disappeared. When I got back to our deer camp I told my buddies what I saw, and they asked me if I had seen any pink elephants.

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