Close to 15% of the nation’s bees were in Hurricane Ian’s path : NPR
The Woods
NYS Statewide Snowmobile Trail System
This interactive map shows the approximately 10,000 miles of funded snowmobile trails in New York State on public and private lands across the state.
Data Source: NYS Office of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation. Statewide Snowmobile Trail System. https://data.ny.gov/Recreation/Statewide-Snowmobile-Trail-System/dqg7-5njk
Rabbit Hemorrhagic Disease
In 2020, Rabbit Hemorrhagic Disease Virus 2 (RHDV2), a virus that causes the notifiable foreign animal disease, Rabbit Hemorrhagic Disease (RHD), was detected for the first time in wild hares and rabbits in the United States. In August 2022, RHDV2 was detected for the first time Pennsylvania in a domestic rabbit facility in Fayette County. RHD poses a threat to the Commonwealth's cottontail rabbit and snowshoe hare populations, and as such, the Pennsylvania Game Commission is taking proactive measures to mitigate that threat.
1 WEEK IN THE WILDERNESS. p1 Dropped off by Train in the Wild! Running Rapids, Fish for Dinner.
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Beloved monarch butterflies now listed as endangered | AP News
The monarch butterfly fluttered a step closer to extinction Thursday, as scientists put the iconic orange-and-black insect on the endangered list because of its fast dwindling numbers.
“It’s just a devastating decline,” said Stuart Pimm, an ecologist at Duke University who was not involved in the new listing. “This is one of the most recognizable butterflies in the world.”
The International Union for the Conservation of Nature added the migrating monarch butterfly for the first time to its “red list” of threatened species and categorized it as “endangered” — two steps from extinct.
The group estimates that the population of monarch butterflies in North America has declined between 22% and 72% over 10 years, depending on the measurement method.
“What we’re worried about is the rate of decline,” said Nick Haddad, a conservation biologist at Michigan State University. “It’s very easy to imagine how very quickly this butterfly could become even more imperiled.”
Five days in the wilderness. 📴
Five days in the wilderness. 📴
- I disabled my Facebook.
- I turned off mobile service on my phone.
- I camped and hiked where I knew I would have no service.
- I didn’t listen to the radio news much.
Probably it was terribly irresponsible as my parents are elderly and have been going through a lot of medical issues lately. There probably were work emails and projects. Save the Pine Bush probably needed maps and property research. A million reasons why people probably needed me over the past five days. But it’s not the first ti1me I’ve spent in the wilderness cut off from it all.
I’ve just been fried after so many things have been going on in this world over the past few weeks.
While I mentioned on the blog that I was going out of town, I didn’t post much about it in social media before switching off. I told my parents briefly but few others besides confirming with the other directors it would be fine to take a few personal days.
I’m back now. I’ve gotten the many email pings and messages, I’ll have to review them and the voice mail. They’ll get addressed. I’ll turn my social media back on and see what Facebook says I’ve missed. Catch up on Ag Tiktok and the cow shit spreaders.