Trail Cam Tuesday: 14 New Captures Submitted By Our Readers – Wide Open Spaces
14 New Captures Submitted By Our Readers – Wide Open Spaces
It maybe Wednesday at this point, but some of these trail camera photos are really great.
The Woods
Solitude
I spend much of my free time up in the woods, walking around, and exploring. I enjoy getting far away from other human beings, and camping out far away from other people. Many of the places are so far off the beaten track that few ever go out here.
Yet I enjoy these places and hope they will be forever. Many will remain largely unchanged, others may scum to contemporary pressures be it high gas prices or new technologies such as farming techniques that forever change the landscape. Much land will remain forever wild, but that does not mean that recreational and governmental uses of the land won’t based on the changing forces.
It’s not scary to be alone. It’s enlightening to be up in the woods with no pressures to do anything or be in a rush to be anywhere. You sit and listen to the wind blow through the trees, the water bubbling down the creek, the birds chirping in the air, or the chipmunks running around and opening acorns.
I enjoy being alone, with nobody to bother me or tell me what to do.
Minnesota Schools Could Make Firearms Safety Part of Physical Education
This is why Sen. Justin Eichorn of Grand Rapids is pushing for the addition of firearms safety, hunting, trap shooting, fishing and archery to physical education classes.
"We're trying to help get our Minnesota kids away from the TV and get them out in the woods and on the water again to get them hooked on the outdoors and hooked on fishing," Sen. Eichorn told the Senate Education Committee Sunday. "We want to start bending that curve to get children to care about the outdoors and the history of and heritage of hunting and fishing in Minnesota."
According to a report from WBIR, if SF 793 passed, the initiative would be treated as a "pilot project" at six Minnesota schools. The curriculum for said classes would come from the Department of Natural Resources, although DNR officials would have to speak with local Native American communities. Kevin Murphy, a sixth grade teacher in Cass County, also spoke at the hearing, as his school district already teaches many of the subjects in Eichorn's bill. He says firearms safety, snowmobile safety, ATV safety, boat safety and fishing are essential to the school's curriculum.
"That is huge in local culture," he said. "The firearms safety part of it, the hunting aspect of it, the outdoor education is all very, very important as a cultural element." The bill will be finalized near the end of the session, according to WBIR.
Camping, Not Yet
Walking in the Albany Pine Bush this afternoon, I was thinking how much I miss spending nights in the wilderness. Those open canopies, like Moose River Plains or even Confusion Flats in the Western Adirondacks are special. While I have a trip planned for 2 1/2 weeks from now, it’s seems like that could be an eternity. I guess I could out somewhere sooner, although the issue would be that there is still a lot of snow up north and the next few weekends I expect to be fairly busy. But it’s obvious that nicer weather is heading our way, and I fully expect to spend more nights in the near future out in the wilderness.
Furriers Protest Against Proposed Ban On Fur Sales In NYC – CBS New York
They chanted “Save our jobs! Save our jobs!” Dozens of people who work in the New York City fur industry came to City Hall to tell Council Speaker Corey Johnson to “fur-get” about his proposed ban on the sale of clothing and accessories made of animal skin with hair, fleece, or fur attached.
“We’re here to say we’ve had enough. Enough of the attacks. Enough of the attacks on our families,” said Brooklyn furrier Steven Lilikakis.
The furriers cast the argument in stark economic terms, pointing out that 98 percent of the industry business owners said they would move out of New York City if the ban were to go into effect, taking 1,100 jobs, costing New York City $3.3 billion in revenue in the next decade and leaving lots of empty storefronts.
“I’ve been in the fur business about 35 years now. It’s my livelihood, and now people are trying to take my livelihood,” said fur worker Geoffrey Geters.
“I’m a single dad… this is how I make my income,” said fur stylist Messiah McNeir.
Fur is a natural, renewable and sustainable resource – by Fur is Green
Fur is a natural, renewable and sustainable resource. That means we only use part of what nature produces each year without depleting wildlife populations or damage the natural habitat s that sustain them. The goal is to maintain long-term ecological balance.
In nature, each plant and animal species generally produces more offspring than the land can support to maturity. Like other species, we live by making use of part of this surplus that nature creates. We also have a responsibility to protect the wilderness areas that provide these valuable resources. Modern conservationists define this as the "sustainable use" of renewable resources.
How Far North Could Mosquitoes Go If Climate Change Is Unchecked? – NPR
Disease-bearing mosquitoes are on the move. Scientists have been pretty sure of that for decades. As temperatures rise in certain parts of the world, warmth-seeking mosquitoes will invade, making themselves at home in previously inhospitable patches of the globe. Now researchers are trying to figure out exactly how far north these mosquitoes will migrate."