Beavers May Breathe A Dam Site Easier

Humane Society Says Device Limits Flooding But Allows Animals To Stay

•A beaver swims at the pond at Pequot Woods in Mystic Thursday.

Mystic — Beaver lovers can breathe easier. The town of Groton may have found an affordable solution to the flooding caused by the beaver dam at Pequot Woods park that won’t require trapping and killing the animals, or a complex boardwalk and bridge project.
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Film Legend Charlton Heston passes away

Film legend Charlton Heston dead at 84 By BOB THOMAS, Associated Press Writer

LOS ANGELES – Charlton Heston, who won the 1959 best actor Oscar as the chariot-racing “Ben-Hur” and portrayed Moses, Michelangelo, El Cid and other heroic figures in movie epics of the ’50s and ’60s, has died. He was 84.

The actor died Saturday night at his home in Beverly Hills with his wife Lydia at his side, family spokesman Bill Powers said.

Powers declined to comment on the cause of death or provide further details.
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Hall of fame honors visionary women

Mabel Osgood Wright, founder of Connecticut Audubon… (contributed photo / Connecticut Post)

Mabel Osgood Wright was destined to be exceptional. After all, the New York native attended grammar school with future President Theodore Roosevelt and published her first essay on nature in the New York Evening Post when she was 16. Yet it wasn’t her education or even her early foray into journalism that cemented Wright’s place in history. It was a fashion trend.
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Residents rescue white-tailed deer

From The Lindsay Post in Ontario Canada:

It was a lucky rescue for a white-tailed deer that had been shot with a cross-bow bolt last month.

On Feb. 2, north-east of Nogies Creek, John and Elaine Fritz noticed that a doe was three-legged lame with a shaft protruding from her right side, just behind the elbow. Hunting season had been over six weeks earlier.

They contacted Bobcaygeon Veterinary Services and Aspen Valley Wildlife Sanctuary in Rosseau, near Huntsville, and plans for a rescue were made.
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Connecticut cougar sighting revealed as a hoax

Photos of a cougar, purportedly sighted in Simsbury, were e-mailed to Connecticut wildlife professionals, naturalists and even Boy Scout troops.

But it’s all a hoax. The big cats, also called mountain lions or pumas, can reach 100 pounds, but they live in the western United States.

In reality, Connecticut’s biggest cats are the reclusive bobcats, the largest of which tip the scales at around 30 pounds of carnivorous muscle.
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Uncommon Black Vulture Visits Connecticut

Photo by Ann O’Leary.

On February 27 staff at our Center at Fairfield realized the Turkey Vulture they thought was sitting atop an outdoor cage (where we house our birds of prey) was really a Black Vulture, an uncommon sight in Connecticut. According to Milan Bull, Connecticut Audubon’s senior director of science and conservation, Black Vultures can be found scattered along the Atlantic coastline from Florida to New Jersey but sightings in Connecticut are on the rise.

Thrill killers alarm wardens

Editors comment from Connecticut Hunting Today:

This just sickens me to know end and people like this should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. There is no reason what so ever for animal cruelty. What these three teenagers received for punishment does not any where come close to paying for what they did.

Suspects say boredom drives them to commit criminal acts against wildlife

Authorities often learn about it from landowners who hear shooting at night and find deer carcasses in their fields the next day.

One case came to light when a bloody deer heart was discovered in a girl’s high school locker. And some incidents are solved when conservation wardens catch the criminals red-handed – shooting from roads with the help of spotlights and headlights, then leaving the wounded and dying animals behind.

Conservation wardens call it “thrill killing” of animals, and it appears to be a growing problem throughout Wisconsin, said Chief Warden Randy Stark.
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Martinsville fourth grader tells of hunting experience and first deer

MARTINSVILLE

Cameron Vanderzeyde is the 10-year old son of Cary and Michele Vanderzeyde and a 4-grader at Centerton Elementary School in Martinsville. He is an excellent student who loves sports and hunting. The hunting is a family tradition going back to his grandfather, Peter Vanderzeyde from LaGrange. This is the story of Cameron’s big buck, told in his own words.

Opening day of Indiana’s gun season for deer this year was a day I have looked forward to for a long time. I turned 10 years old this year and my Dad always told me that’s when I could be a hunter, not just a spectator. I got to go along on many hunts during my short life and watch while all the grown ups did all the hunting. Opening day for hunting season has always been exciting over the years but this year is extra special because its my first time to actually participate in the hunt.
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Why Norwalk River is threatened (Part 1)

The Norwalk River provides no only recreation but carries everything from sewer plant discharges to runoff from parking lots to failing septic systems to water draining off lawns or other landscaping.—Norwalk River Watershed Association photo

Despite increasing evidence that pollution in the Norwalk River is reaching a near unrecoverable threshhold, there are no comprehensive regulations governing discharges into the river as whole.
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Preserving habitats for state birds

For such a small state, Connecticut has good birds.

The mix of the state’s landscape — woods, fields, wetlands, rivers, shoreline and estuaries — has made it a hospitable place for nearly 400 species.

It also has a lot of birds — about 850 million birds a year stop by the state, according to the 2008 State of the Bird report issued this week by the Connecticut Audubon Society.
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