USFWS Proposes to Delist the Gray Wolf and Expand Recovery ...

Gray wolf (Canis lupus). (Credit: Gary Kramer/USFWS)

On June 13, 2013, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) published two proposed rules regarding the threatened and endangered listing status of the gray wolf (Canis lupus), opening a 90-day comment period on both. The first proposal involves delisting the gray wolf by 2014 in the remaining contiguous U.S. in addition to several already delisted populations within the Northern Rocky Mountains (Mont., N.D., S.D., Neb., Kan., Colo., Utah, and Wyo.) and the Great Lakes region (Ill., Ind., Iowa, Mich., Minn., Mo., Ohio, Wis.). Those distinct population segments were delisted in 2011 and 2012, respectively, and have since been managed by the states under USFWS-approved state management plans with five-year monitoring programs by the USFWS. Washington and Oregon also have management plans for the wolves currently recolonizing their states. This proposal would maintain protections for the Mexican wolf (Canis lupus baileyi), by listing it as an endangered subspecies.

The second proposal would revise the existing nonessential experimental population designation of the Mexican wolf to allow raised wolves to be released throughout the Blue Range Wolf Recovery Area in the Apache and Gila National Forests of east central Arizona and west central New Mexico.

These proposals are based on the best available science and a recent comprehensive review that includes new taxonomic data from Chambers et al. (2012). The USFWS reports that the current gray wolf listing needs to be revised. Now that some populations are considered recovered and have been delisted, the entire C. lupus species can no longer be listed as endangered. Instead, any endangered populations must be listed separately as either endangered subspecies (like the Mexican wolf) or so-called ?distinct population segments.?

According to a USFWS news release, ?there are at least 6,100 gray wolves in the contiguous U.S., with a current estimate of 1,674 in the Northern Rocky Mountains and 4,432 in the Western Great Lakes.? During the 2012 annual year-end survey, the Mexican Wolf Interagency Field Team counted a minimum of 75 Mexican wolves living in the wild in Arizona and New Mexico, an increase from 58 in 2011.

The USFWS is seeking additional scientific, commercial, and technical information from the public and other interested parties during the comment period for the two proposed rules, prior to the USFWS?s final determination in 2014. Public hearing requests must be made in writing and within 45 days of the date the proposals were published in the Federal Register.

Thus far, more than 10,000 comments have already been submitted to regulations.gov.

Comments may be submitted until 11:59 p.m. on September 11, 2013, online or by mail to:

Public Comments
Processing, Attn: [*please use the appropriate docket number for each species ? see below]
Division of Policy and Directives Management
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
4401 N. Fairfax Drive
MS 2042?PDM
Arlington, VA 22203

*Please include the correct docket number for comment submissions:
Gray wolf: Docket No. [FWS?HQ?ES?2013?0073]
Mexican wolf: Docket No. [FWS-R2-ES-2013-0056]

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Sources: Federal Register (June 13, 2013), FWS Gray Wolf Recovery (June 7, 2013), FWS Gray Wolf Recovery Press Release (June 7, 2013), FAQs for Gray Wolf and Delisting (June, 2013), FWS Bulletin (June 13, 2013).

More information: What States Are Saying; Federal Register notices on the gray wolf (or download the PDF) and the Mexican wolf (or download PDF); gray wolf profile page; Information on the Mountain Prairie Region gray wolf, the Midwest Region gray wolf, and the Southwest Region Mexican wolf; USFWS gray wolf Flickr page; USFWS Director Dan Ashe blog on wolves.

Source: http://news.wildlife.org/featured/usfws-proposes-to-delist-the-gray-wolf-and-expand-recovery-efforts-for-mexican-wolf/

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Wing walker, pilot die in crash at Ohio air show

DAYTON, Ohio (AP) ? A plane carrying a wing walker crashed Saturday at an air show and exploded into flames, killing the pilot and stunt walker instantly, authorities said.

Dayton International Airport spokeswoman Linda Hughes and Ohio State Highway Patrol Lt. Anne Ralston confirmed the deaths to The Associated Press.

The crash happened at around 12:45 p.m. at the Vectren Air Show at the Dayton airport. No spectators were injured.

The show has been canceled for the remainder of the day, but organizers said events would resume Sunday. The names of those killed weren't immediately released, but a video posted on WHIO-TV showing the flight and crash identified the performer as wing walker Jane Wicker. A schedule posted on the event's website also had Wicker scheduled to perform.

The video shows the plane turn upside-down as Wicker sits on top of the wing. The plane then tilts and crashes to the ground, exploding into flames as spectators scream.

"All of a sudden I heard screaming and looked up and there was a fireball," spectator Stan Thayer of Wilmington, Ohio, told WHIO.

Another spectator, Shawn Warwick of New Knoxville, told the Dayton Daily News that he was watching the flight through binoculars.

"I noticed it was upside-down really close to the ground. She was sitting on the bottom of the plane," he said. "I saw it just go right into the ground and explode."

Wicker's website says she responded to a classified ad from the Flying Circus Airshow in Bealeton, Va., in 1990, for a wing-walking position, thinking it would be fun. Her full-time job was as a budget analyst for the Federal Aviation Administration, according to her website.

She told WDTN-TV in an interview this week that her signature move was hanging underneath the plane's wing by her feet and sitting on the bottom of the airplane while it's upside-down.

"I'm never nervous or scared because I know if I do everything as I usually do, everything's going to be just fine," she told the station.

Wicker wrote on her website that she had never had any close calls.

"What you see us do out there is after an enormous amount of practice and fine tuning, not to mention the airplane goes through microscopic care. It is a managed risk and that is what keeps us alive," she wrote.

In 2007, veteran stunt pilot Jim LeRoy was killed at the Dayton show when his biplane slammed into the runway while performing loop-to-loops and caught fire.

Organizers were presenting a trimmed-down show and expected smaller crowds at Dayton after the Air Force Thunderbirds and other military participants pulled out this year because of federal budget cuts.

The air show, one of the country's oldest, usually draws around 70,000 people and has a $3.2 million impact on the local economy. Without military aircraft and support, the show expected attendance to be off 30 percent or more.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/wing-walker-pilot-die-crash-ohio-air-show-191655523.html

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Dear Lillie: Final Tour of our Townhome

Well, seeing how we spent the weekend moving out of our townhouse and tomorrow morning (Monday) will be moving into our new home I thought it would be a fitting time to give a final tour of our old home. When you first walked through our front door we had this tiny little space that kind of functioned as our entry area.

Directly next to the bench was our staicase. You can see the before here and how we very inexpensively made the frames here.


I am going to share a lot more living room photos this week as part of the One Room, Three Ways Series so for today will just share one and will come back and update it and add more once I post them. But this is how it last looked:

And here were the last photos I took of the dining room (although I ended up putting the chairs back in the family room):

And the ever-changing dining room chalkboard:

The dining room lead into the kitchen:

And the kitchen opens up to the family room:

And off the kitchen/family room is the back porch:

?When you head upstairs the first bedroom was Lillie's (and recently it became Lola's too once she moved into a "big girl bed").

And then there's Lola's room:

And lastly our room:

Well, that's it! We have made so many memories in this home and it is the only place Lillie and Lola have ever lived so it was sad to say good-bye to it but we are so excited about this next chapter in our lives!

***If you have any questions about where an item is from, paint colors or how something was made be sure to click here for our "Our Home" page that has all sorts of details,? here for our "Tutorials" page, or here for our "FAQ's" page. We don't have our internet hooked up yet at our new house so I will probably get pretty behind on responding to comments.

I'll be back Tuesday Morning with Day 1 of the my One Room, Three Ways!

Source: http://dearlillieblog.blogspot.com/2013/06/final-tour-of-our-townhome.html

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Mandela remains in 'serious but stable' condition: government

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Former South African president Nelson Mandela remains in a "serious but stable" condition in hospital, the government said on Saturday.

Consistent with previous updates from the presidency, the statement shows that the 94-year-old anti-apartheid hero's health is little changed since his admission to a Pretoria hospital two weeks ago.

Mandela, who became South Africa's first black president in 1994, was rushed to a Pretoria hospital early on June 8 with a recurring respiratory infection.

The presidency also confirmed that the intensive care ambulance carrying former South African president Nelson Mandela to hospital two weeks ago broke down. Media reports said he was stranded for 40 minutes.

Presidential spokesman Mac Maharaj said the former president was transferred to another military ambulance for the remainder of the almost 50 minute journey between Johannesburg and the Medi-Clinic Heart Hospital in Pretoria.

"All care was taken to ensure that former president Mandela's medical condition was not compromised by the unforeseen incident," Maharaj said. He would not say how long Mandela's journey to hospital had been delayed by the breakdown.

Doctors attending to Madiba, the clan name by which Mandela is popularly known, were satisfied that he suffered no harm during this period, he said.

Failure to deliver basic services under the African National Congress-led government has sparked violent protests across the country this year and are campaign points for political parties jostling for position ahead of next year's election.

Mandela's history of lung problems dates back to his time at Robben Island prison near Cape Town. He was released in 1990 after 27 years and went on to serve as president from 1994 to 1999.

His hospitalization is the fourth since December.

(Reporting by Sherilee Lakmidas; Editing by Louise Ireland)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/nelson-mandela-remains-serious-stable-condition-government-092747495.html

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Court documents reveal secret rules allowing NSA to use US data without a warrant

NSA's information gathering practices have been further detailed in court papers revealed by The Guardian. While the agency has continued to reiterate that it doesn't collect its data indiscriminately, the leaked papers detail several loopholes that allow it to gather data from both American and foreign origins without the need for a warrant. If you use data encryption or other privacy tools, your communications are likely to receive extra attention, and the agency can indefinitely keep any information assembled for "crypto-analytic, traffic analysis or signal exploitation purposes" -- in short, if the NSA believes may be relevant in the future.

One reason to hold onto said files could simply be the fact that the data is encrypted and NSA wants to be able to analyze its protection. The security agency can also give the FBI and other government organizations any data if it contains a significant amount of foreign intelligence, or information about a crime that has (or will be) committed. Any data that's "inadvertently acquired" through the NSA's methods -- and could potentially contain details of US citizens -- can be held for up to five years before it has to be deleted. The Guardian's uploaded the leaked papers in full -- hit the source links for more.

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