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| Chat - Friday, September 3, 2010; Holiday Weekend Approaching | |
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| Topa Topa Hikers | Sep 3 2010, 05:44 PM Post #31 |
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Nice way for you and ES to start your weekend. Long Island beaches are awesome. |
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| Harpo516 | Sep 3 2010, 05:45 PM Post #32 |
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topa nice love the dolphins!
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| Harpo516 | Sep 3 2010, 05:45 PM Post #33 |
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our beach was awesome - now it's under water LOL all will still be closed tomorrow - and a holiday weekend! oh well |
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| Topa Topa Hikers | Sep 3 2010, 05:46 PM Post #34 |
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Closed, no way! OK, BBL
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| Harpo516 | Sep 3 2010, 06:03 PM Post #35 |
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Jones Beach is really long and very wide and with the rip tide and now all the flooding - they can't have folks in the water so beaches closed ....... they have the entrances to the beach from the boardwalk closed ....... gotta be safe.......
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| Naturegal | Sep 3 2010, 07:06 PM Post #36 |
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Deb - Wow, the waves at Jones Beach are really big and rough. Cute videos of that running little bird and the gull. Topa - Love the dolphin pics, reminded me of Florida, when we walked on the beach there were always 4 or 5 swimming together. |
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| Artsy Mom | Sep 3 2010, 08:18 PM Post #37 |
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Lily the Black Bear - Update September 3, 2010 - 8:24 PM CDT 7 PM and All's Well Hope on the move - Sept 3, 2010 The 6 bears with active GPS units showed little activity through this rainy, windy day. Then the sky cleared around 6 PM and all became active, foraging and moving up to a half mile in the next hour and a half. Hunting pressure is still light within the study area. We saw a post that indicated we try to educate hunters by walking up to them in their stands when they are trying to hunt. We have never done that. The poster said we key in on GPS locations of bait sites. We don't have GPS locations of bait sites and we wouldn't go there and disturb the hunters. We want good relations. Stories get twisted, rumors start, and some get posted. There are many such rumors - some even spread by wildlife officials. One is that we put fake radio-collars on non-study bears to keep hunters from shooting them. Not true. Another is that we radio-collar bears just to keep hunters from shooting them. Not true. Another is that we intend to radio-collar most of the bears in the area to protect them. Not true. Nearly all the radio-collared bears are part of a single clan that is the subject of intense long-term study. We have specific study goals, and all radio-collaring is toward those goals. Beyond that, radio-collars are expensive and studying extraneous bears would be more work than we can do. The truth is simple. We are doing solid, scientific long-term research on one clan of bears. We have 14 radio-collars on bears at this moment, with 13 of those being between Ely and Tower. The 14th is down maybe 15 miles from Duluth-Hermantown. We simply want to pursue this in-depth study and share the findings with anyone interested as quickly as we obtain data. Some 20 years ago, we enlisted the public to walk with radio-collared bears and had over 200 participants. The study was a U. S. Forest Service project. At the request of the U. S. Forest Service, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources closed that area to hunting to protect the study bears and the people following them. The data from that project were phenomenal. Before the area was closed to hunting, people following the bears did follow them to hunters' baits and ask the hunters not to shoot them. The Minnesota Legislature gave support by passing a law that it is unlawful for a hunter to shoot a bear that is accompanied by a researchers and has been identified to the hunter as a study bear. However, in the present study, we have not mobilized the public to walk with the bears for several reasons, one of which is to cooperate with hunters who don't like to be disturbed, as the poster noted. In return, we expect cooperation from hunters. We are working under a permit from the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, which asks hunters not to shoot radio-collared bears. So does the Minnesota Bear Guides Association. We have lost 5 radio-collared bears to hunters during the study, and that makes us worry. The history that each bear carries, and the countless hours that have gone into building trust with that bear and obtaining the years of history make these bears irreplaceable in our lifetimes. We believe most people, including hunters, see the values of these bears to science, education, and the region. However, we can't help but worry each year during the hunt. Meanwhile, voting in the school contest ends tonight. A lot of schools made major efforts, it appears, but we managed to place near the top in 52nd and 53rd with a major effort of our own. Thank you so much for the help you are sending to the research project as a result of your fundraising raffles, etc. It shows your support through this tense time. Much appreciated. Thank you for all you do. ~Lynn Rogers and Sue Mansfield, Biologists, Wildlife Research Institute and North American Bear Center |
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| cdn-cdn | Sep 3 2010, 09:50 PM Post #38 |
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Penny, thanks for the Lily and Hope update. Deb and Topa, excellent wave and beach pictures from both coasts. Topa, I liked your porpoises, and Deb, my goodness, what a flood! Funny little speedy sandpiper-kind of bird. Sorry, it's almost 2 am here and I can't sleep ... can't think of anything to say, either. I was hungry so I got up and had some yogourt. |
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so beaches closed ....... they have the entrances to the beach from the boardwalk closed ....... gotta be safe.......

11:47 PM Jul 10