Governors Issue Call For Action On Climate Change

Schwarzenegger, Rell Among Those Taking White House To Task

Photo by Bob Child • California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger speaks Friday at a conference on climate change at Yale University in New Haven. Behind Schwarzenegger are Nobel laureate Rajendra K. Pachauri, left, and Connecticut Gov. M. Jodi Rell.

New Haven — Concern about the environment and body-building have something in common. So declared California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger in his address to a capacity audience at Yale University’s Woolsey Hall on Friday, the climax of the two-day Conference of Governors on Climate Change.
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Hunter wanted funeral to be a blast

Terry wanted to go out with a bang. The avid outdoorsman had one dying wish: to have his remains scattered over his favorite hunting grounds. But he wanted no gentle goodbye.

So, according to his will, his ashes were packed into shotgun shells. Soon, a couple of dozen pals will raise their firearms, pull the triggers and thunder Terry’s ashes across a lake.

“He wanted to go out hunting,” says pal Mike.
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Exotic animal found in Milwaukie

MILWAUKIE, Ore. – A couple of Milwaukie High School students made a bizarre discovery on the way to school Tuesday morning.
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Muskrat population declining significantly

The tall, feather-like reeds that have been crowding out native plants along the coastline are claiming another victim — the lowly muskrat.

Wildlife biologists throughout the Northeast and eastern Canada say that they have observed significant declines in muskrat populations, and the culprit seems to be phragmites australis, also known as the common reed.
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Something’s fishy in Kensington

BERLIN – The third Saturday of April is fast approaching – and to fishing enthusiasts in Connecticut, that means trout season is on the horizon.
Tucked away down the winding Old Hatchery Road off Chamberlain Highway in the Kensington section of town, and closed to the public, the 46-acre Kensington Fish Hatchery was hard at work last week – as it always is, 365 days a year – incubating and growing tens of thousands of brown trout and Atlantic salmon for stock and release into the Salmon and Farmington rivers.
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Close Encounter with a Magical Beast

My husband spotted the white deer one evening last fall. “Quick. Come quick,” he said from the dining room window. I missed it, just as I missed seeing Santa every Christmas eve when my father would swear he was flying past my bedroom window in his airborne sleigh.

I was just as skeptical about the existence of a white deer. Then, a few weeks after the encounter, my daughter and her friend saw it crossing our road on a fogbound night. They described it as ghostly, but I knew then that it was real.
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Ballistics Don’t Have to be Complicated

I like to study ballistics charts because they help me fully understand what my ammunition will do at varying ranges. Most ballistics charts show bullet drop out to 500 yards and include information about crosswind drift.

Such detailed information is extremely helpful, especially if you’re used to hunting where shots are close and you are planning a hunting trip to somewhere with wide-open spaces. Modern rifles and bullets will do their job at very long distances, but only if you know where to hold so the bullet hits the target.

Studying a ballistics chart also will help you in selecting a bullet design and weight. It can likewise help you determine what caliber gun will work best for your style of hunting.

For example, the .35 Remington, a popular caliber for deer hunters in thick woods, works just fine in close quarters. If you have to make a 400-yard shot with a .35-caliber rifle sighted dead on at 200 yards, however, you’d have to hold 70 inches above the target! I don’t know many hunters who can make that shot ethically.

A ballistics chart allows you to compare calibers and loads to help you make decisions regarding various hunting conditions.

Once I have made a decision on caliber and load, I study the table for bullet drop like I’m preparing for a test so I know where to hold in different yardage situations. If you have trouble remembering numbers, you can even write the drop figures/yardages on a piece of paper, laminate it and tape it to your rifle stock. If the deer is several hundred yards away, you’ll probably have time to consult the chart — and you’ll be glad you did when you make a nice, clean shot!

–Jackie Bushman of Buckmasters

Recreational hunting alone will not control CWD

Members of the Natural Resources Board gave very close attention to a recent report by Bryan Richards, CWD project leader for the USGS National Wildlife Health Center in Madison.

It’s a report that should be heard by every person who has an interest in deer in Wisconsin.

Some hunters and landowners naively believe that efforts to reduce deer populations, and CWD, have been too intense and need to back off.

Richards, who has no direct responsibility over Wisconsin deer herd management or CWD management programs, was very clear that more effort is needed. He said that:

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Hoyt one of history’s best archers

GLENDALE – Ann Weber Hoyt was one of the finest female archers in history.

She won the International Field Archery Championship in 1959 and was the only woman ever to win both the USA National Target and Field championships, according to the Archery Hall of Fame.

She was among the first to be inducted into the Archery Hall of Fame in 1972. She managed the U.S. Olympic Archery Team in 1984, the same year she received the National Archery Association’s Thompson Medal of Honor.

Mrs. Hoyt died Saturday at the Glendale Center, where she had lived since early October.

Mrs. Hoyt, who turned 86 on March 29, suffered from dementia and a stroke.

Mrs. Hoyt was introduced to archery when she was 16 and a student at Bloomfield High School in Bloomfield, N.J., where she grew up. In 1939, she was ranked fourth in the country by the National Archery Association and won the National Archery Championship.

Mrs. Hoyt went to Montclair State Teachers College in New Jersey, graduating in 1943. She won four intercollegiate archery titles for Montclair.

In 1948, Mrs. Hoyt married Lloyd Corby, also one of the best archers in the country. They sometimes performed together, and he once shot a grapefruit off the top of her head at a charity event in Morristown, N.J. Corby died in 1958.

In 1971, Mrs. Hoyt quit her job at the Robin Hood Archery to marry Earl Hoyt, owner of Hoyt Archery. Mr. and Mrs. Hoyt sold the business in 1978 and continued to serve as consultants until 1991.

Mrs. Hoyt moved to Glendale in 2001 to live with her close friend and fellow archer Ann Clark following the death of her husband.

She has no survivors.

Visitation is 10-11 a.m. Wednesday, followed by Mass, at St. Gabriel Church, 48 W. Sharon Road, Glendale. A brunch will follow at the Glendale Gaslight Restaurant, 1140 Congress Ave. Mrs. Hoyt’s remains will be cremated and interred at the Archery Hall of Fame.

Memorials: National Archery Hall of Fame, 500 W. Sunshine St., Springfield, MO 65807, or Hospice of Cincinnati.

BY REBECCA GOODMAN | RGOODMAN@ENQUIRER.COM

Governor Rell names Deputy Commissioner at DEP to focus on management of parks and natural resources

Frechette has extensive experience in park and natural resource management

Governor M. Jodi Rell today announced that she has named Susan W. Frechette to be a Deputy Commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection (DEP).

Frechette, a veteran Massachusetts environmental official who served nearly two decades in senior level positions managing state parks and natural resources – will start work at DEP April 11. She will be responsible for management of state parks and forests, wildlife and fisheries management and the Environmental Conservation Police force.
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