Smartphone app helps researchers track bumblebees
The hope is that it will create enough “buzz” to save the insects by documenting the relationship between specific bees and flowers.
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Fishing for a fee: Virginia stocking streams with trophy trout
Anglers can pay a daily fee to fish where these fish are stocked during certain parts of the year.
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Ticks are back in force across New England
Residents in Maine are complaining they are finding as many as 30 ticks at a time on their clothes, and public health officials in Vermont are reporting an above-average rate of emergency room visits for tick bites in the last three weeks.
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Downtown Battle Creek a kayaking destination
Kayaking is the latest frontier of the city’s downtown development efforts.
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Black bear kills 16-year-old runner during race in Alaska
The race director says the runner had apparently made it to the halfway point turnaround on Bird Ridge trail and was on his way down when he texted a family member that he was being chased by a bear.
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Feds award $400K to fight invasive weeds in Finger Lakes
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will use funds for herbicide treatment of hydrilla in Cayuga Lake.
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Fish farms getting an assist from chickens; discovery could have global implications for Atlantic salmon industry
Researchers are using oil that comes from a gland on chickens’ tails to improve survival at fish farms; the oil reportedly also could be used to domesticate wild fish like walleye and allow them to be farmed.
Conservation group: Future of imperiled Atlantic salmon in jeopardy
Atlantic salmon face a number of challenges in the wild, ranging from the presence of river dams to continued fishing pressure off of Canada and Greenland.
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Washington DNR eyeing future of state forests
Agency to name forest panel to focus on small seabird, harvests.
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