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Brule River State Forest Park signs have gone missing in the last several weeks.

Updated: A select list of stories to read before you start your day. Share Article AAA A Muslim boy looks out of as residents wait to check names in the final list of the National Register of Citizens at an NRC centre in Buraburi village in Assam’s Morigaon district on August 31, 2019.   | Photo Credit: AP A select list of stories to read before you start your day. Amidst complaints of vaccine shortages raised by several States, India crossed a milestone of administering 10 crore doses as o...

Premium Content Subscriber only Rockhampton residents are being warned to close their windows and doors with Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service and Partnerships conducting planned aerial burning within Mount Archer National Park and State Forest and Flat Top Range Resources on Saturday. Smoke may be seen in the Mount Archer, Rockhampton and Flat Top Range areas and may be visible in these areas over several days as fire moves around within containment lines. The planned burn is part of the a...

Dolphin boom in Odisha’s Chilika lake Updated: Updated: Activists elated at jump in number of endangered Irrawaddy dolphins. Share Article Activists elated at jump in number of endangered Irrawaddy dolphins. The population of dolphins in Chilika, India’s largest brackish water lake, and along the Odisha coast has doubled this year compared with last year. The wildlife wing of the State Forest and Environment Department released the final data on the dolphin census conducted in January and ...

New Jersey Herald Perched at the top of a 45-foot steel tower, high above the trees in the middle of the Kittatinny Ridge in northern Sussex County, is a small cube with walls of glass. In that cube, with binoculars pressed to his eyes, Nick Valerio can see for miles and miles around him. He, just like the fire watch observers in the other 20 watchtowers throughout New Jersey, is on the lookout for the telltale plumes of smoke from wildfires. "Its a very, very important job up here in the t...

") } }) ev.preventDefault(); }); 1 The Devil’s Hopyard in East Haddam. A search for the origin of the name “Devil’s Hopyard” reveals many stories; all of them likely more fiction than fact. One tale comes from pothole stone formations. Early settlers said that the devil had passed by the falls, accidentally getting his tail wet. This made him so mad he burned holes in the stones with his hooves as he bounded away. (Photo courtesy of Connecticut DEEP ) 2 Set in the sceni...

The Beacon The only public all-terrain vehicle trails to be found in Northwest Ohio are at Maumee State Forest in the Swanton, Ohio area. It can be difficult to find public trails in Ohio that allow riders and their all-terrain vehicles, all-season vehicles, mini-bikes and trail bikes. In Northwest Ohio, Maumee State Forest is not only open year-round, but offers eight miles of public all-purpose vehicle APV trails. Maumee State Forest is comprised of 3,332 acres in Fulton, Henry and Lucas coun...

Otters in a bird sanctuary at Uppalapadu near Guntur in Andhra Pradesh. | Ch.Vijay Bhaskar/ Mongabay The unexpected sighting of an otter in the lake waters of the Uppalapadu Bird Sanctuary, on the outskirts of Guntur in Andhra Pradesh recently, has generated excitement among birders, conservationists and the public. The smooth-coated otter, locally called Neeti Kukka or water dog, made its appearance at the end of January this year, at the sanctuary important for the near-thr...

Steelhead Streams in Western New York Portions of this page may require JavaScript to be enabled for your browser. DEC Region 9 offers steelhead anglers an abundance of opportunities from the mighty lower Niagara River to Cattaraugus Creek, one of the premier streams in the state, to other smaller streams. These streams offer high quality lake-run steelhead fishing from November through April. The majority of the steelhead in these streams are the result of smolt stockings by DEC. There is some...

Massive mountaintop fire started at Camp Tuckahoe, according to forest official Jasmine Vaughn-Hall and Ted Czech, York Daily Record A mountaintop forest fire that began Sunday afternoon at Camp Tuckahoe in the Dillsburg, York County area — destroying nearly 150 acres — is under investigation, according to a Michaux State forest official. District Forester Roy Brubaker at the Michaux State Forest said the initial call came in at 3:30 p.m. Sunday. About 12 hours later, mos...