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An Amazonian arapaima washed up in a Florida river. It didn’t swim there
In February, Florida officials identified the body of an arapaima (Arapaima gigas) that had washed ashore from the Caloosahatchee River.
An expert said the arapaima, a fish species endemic to the Amazon lowlands, had likely come from the pet trade.
Live arapaimas are mainly brought into the U.S. for aquaculture, although a small number are also imported for the pet trade, another expert said.
While arapaimas are not currently considered to be an invasive species, there are concerns they could become problematic in the future if enough end up in Florida’s waterways.
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He will next have to convince the Payson Town Council to approve the zoning change he needs.
Gressley has pitched the idea of grinding off 20 to 30 feet of a hilltop that lies between the Payson Event Center and Main Street.
His idea has rocked the community.
âIt was printed suddenly we are a mining town,â said Kenneth Woolcock, the chair of the commission.
This is the third time Gressley has come before the commission to ask for a âminor amendmentâ to the General Plan in order to change the zoning from commercial/residential to manufacturing on the 19.54-acre property.
Currently, the General Plan does not envision manufacturing on that hilltop. The state requires the town to create a General Plan every decade to enshrine the mission and vision for the town. The General Plan then drives where homes and businesses may develop.
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Wyoming is a stronghold for the sage grouse. But a new study from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) finds the birds are on a long-term decline.
USGS research ecologist Cameron Aldridge and his team compiled data from states across the entire range of the sage grouse. The scientists saw an 80 percent decline in males attending breeding grounds (or leks) since the 1960s. Sage grouse are sort of an icon of the West and they represent the intactness or the health of the sagebrush ecosystem, he said. They ve sort of been set on this pedestal as this umbrella that if sage grouse are doing well, so are all the other plants and critters and functions of the sagebrush ecosystem.