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Arizona trail-cam ban a different story than in the East – Outdoornews

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Arizona trail-cam ban a different story than in the East – Outdoornews

Just when you think you have heard it all, some new problem presents itself.

Trail cameras are being used by thousands of hunters all across the United States and elsewhere. They act as silent sentinels, monitoring hunting sites and allowing hunters to see what animals live on the property they hunt. I have a half dozen and in addition to deer, I’ve gotten pictures of turkeys, bears, fox, raccoons, coyotes, and even a fisher. I can honestly say my trail cameras are one of the most useful pieces of hunting equipment I own. I’ve never had a problem with anyone messing with any of my cameras but that isn’t true in some parts of the country.

Earlier this year, Arizona’s Game Commission banned the use of trail cameras in that state. For anyone living here in the East, it’s easy to assume that Arizona’s recent trail-cam ban is an overreaction to a non-issue. That’s exactly what I thought after first hearing about it. Trail cameras have been a part of hunting for decades and their use has become increasingly popular but, in Arizona at least, they may be too much of a good thing.

Excavator on 600 feet Cooling Tower (remote-controlled)

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Because a blast was out of the question, the 162 meters high cooling tower of the former M?lheim-K?rlich nuclear power plant was cleared from above with a remote-controlled excavator piece by piece. After falling below a height of approx. 80 meters, a demolition excavator finally brought the cooling tower down from the ground on August 9, 2019.

Due to a faulty building permit procedure, the nuclear power plant was only in operation for about two years.

How saving gets me high 💰

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How saving gets me high 💰

I do automatic savings every paycheck. Have done it for years – about half for retirement and half in more mid-term and short-term investments. I don’t really care money alone, for me it’s a means to that off-grid home and farm, my own land where I can have whatever guns I want and  burn barrels for trash and a wood stove. Produce my own electricity with solar. Compost and feed waste. Land that is my own, that I can manage for ecological diversity, hunting and trapping, livestock like pigs and goats for food. And that’s a vision that gets me high with a little dopamine hot every time I get that notice in the email. 

The Brief, Baffling Life of an Accidental New York Neighborhood

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The Brief, Baffling Life of an Accidental New York Neighborhood

But how did this defunct train station end up looking like a neighborhood on Google Maps? Sisson got lucky in his search—one site specified a Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) number for Haberman, part of a system used by the U.S. Geological Survey. The USGS maps had spaced neighborhood and train station names differently so they could be distinguished from one another, but somewhere along the line there had been some confusion, and Haberman was clearly listed as a populated place. Sisson speculates that a USGS employee made the simple mistake when the old maps were being digitized, and then those data got a second life then they were picked up by Google Maps’ algorithms.