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Pennsylvania gets grant for wildlife crossings

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Pennsylvania has received federal funds aimed at reducing the number of deadly wildlife-vehicle collisions on commonwealth roadways while improving connectivity for terrestrial and aquatic species.
An $840,000 grant from the Federal Highway Administration’s Wildlife Crossings Pilot Program will be used to strategically plan for the construction of corridors that deer and other species can use to safely move across roads.

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Voting under way for River of the Year in Pennsylvania competition

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New voting is underway for 2024 River of the Year in an annual competition sponsored by the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources.
This year’s candidates are the Allegheny and Youghiogheny rivers in western Pennsylvania and the Lackawaxen River in the northeast region.

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Pittsburgh City Council gets involved in animal welfare issues

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City residents may soon have to give up foie gras, but they can relax about buying fur coats and taking horse-drawn carriage rides since only one of three animal welfare bills made it to a vote in City Council late last year.
Councilman Bruce Kraus effectively killed two of the measures he proposed when he motioned to hold them for four weeks in a mid-December session.

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Pennsylvania Game Commission asking for information in connection to bear killed illegally in Fayette County

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The Pennsylvania Game Commission is looking for information in connection with the illegal killing of a black bear discovered Dec. 2 in Fayette County.
The more than 200-pound female was found on State Game Land 51 off Saylor Road in Stewart Township after someone phoned in a tip to the Game Commission, said game warden and Southwest Region spokesman Seth Mesoras.

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Asian longhorned ticks are in Pennsylvania, but no cause for concern yet

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Asian longhorned ticks are the latest tick to surface in Pennsylvania but aren’t yet cause for alarm, according to Penn State entomologist Michael Skvarla.
Although the species was in the news recently in connection with the deaths of several cows in Ohio, Skvarla said there’s little evidence that longhorned ticks pose a threat to humans.

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Birders continue to make Christmas Bird Count a success in its 124th year

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For many wildlife watchers the holidays would not be complete without the National Audubon Society’s annual Christmas Bird Count, which runs throughout the Western Hemisphere from Dec. 14 to Jan. 5, 2024.
Now in its 124th year, the Christmas Bird Count enables birders to gather and report data that ornithologists can use to measure changes in bird populations, including distribution and abundance, and how they relate to species and habitat conservation.

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Two men cited for one of the alligators released in Pennsylvania’s Kiskiminetas River

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Two western Pennsylvania men have been ordered to pay fines for an alligator incident – one of several this past summer – on the Kiskiminetas River.
Austin Randall, 23, of Lyndora, Butler County, and Dominic Hayward, 26, of Kiski Township, were fined $179 each for releasing a juvenile alligator into the river Aug. 29, according to court records.

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Two environmental groups from Pennsylvania file a lawsuit over ‘nurdles’

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Tiny plastic beads with a quirky name are at the center of a lawsuit that two environmental groups in Pennsylvania recently filed in federal court.
PennEnvironment and Three Rivers Waterkeeper are suing BVPV Styrenics LLC and its parent company Styropek USA, Inc., alleging that they are discharging wastewater and stormwater filled with polystyrene pellets, called nurdles, into the Ohio River and Raccoon Creek from their manufacturing facility in Monaca, Beaver County, in violation of the Clean Water Act.

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Initial phase of deer hunts in two Pittsburgh parks goes smoothly

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The harvest count in Pittsburgh’s first-ever controlled bowhunt is 80 deer as of Dec. 9, when the program was paused for an 18-day break until after Christmas.
Archery began in two city parks – 644-acre Frick and 288-acre Riverview – Sept. 30 and concludes Jan. 27. The 30 hunters chosen in the lottery-based initiative are required to harvest a doe before they target a buck and to donate venison from their first kill to a food-distribution charity.

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