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In this episode of We Love Outdoors with Rich Davenport, your humble host provides a recap of opening day in NY's western southern tier, which features a good snow cover, plenty of shots, and a big buck for your humble host.  It took a while to get that buck out of the woods, but was well worth it.  The real thrill, however, was just being out in the woods, seeing the bear tracks, and the wildlife in total that brings awe to every hunter, young and old.  

The DEC has announced a Becoming an Outdoors Woman weekend coming up February 4-6, 2022, which is dubbed BOW in the Snow, and will be held at Camp Allegany in Allegany State Park.  Registration opens early December, and courses in Nordic skiing to Ice Fishing and more will be offered during the weekend event.

DEC has also announced a State of Lake Ontario meeting will be held on December 2, 2021, at 6:30PM.  This virtual meeting will be hosted on Webex and unlike past meetings, will be a questions only session, as 7 pre-recorded presentations concerning various studies, results observations state of various prey and predator fish, etc., are already published on the DEC website.  Anglers and stakeholders are encouraged to review these presentations and form questions based on these as no presentations will be given during the meeting itself.

Your humble host then provides an update to the CAWTILE informational meeting on November 15, 2021 at Southtowns Walleye Assn.  Sharen Trembath MC'd the event, with 5 guest speakers presenting actual factual information and warnings about the threats Industrial Wind Turbines pose for Lake Erie and our freshwater, while highlighting the astronomical costs that are being downplayed and minimized to sell the snake oil.  Add to that the scarcity of electrical energy from wind turbines due to the variability of the wind itself, and even Stevie Wonder can see this is a bad idea.

And when we consider hydro power, the far lower cost to actual real deliverable energy, well, we all need to Just Say No to Industrial Wind Turbines in Lake Erie and the Great Lakes.  Chautauqua Updates has produced videos of the presentations provided last Monday, which you can view and share off their YouTube channel, or access the videos as they are released on WeLoveOutdoors.org, CAWTILE page.  SOme of the materials presented are also available for download, some of which includes source links for independent research.

Finally, the US DoJ announced a settlement agreement had been reached with Honeywell Corp and others involving natural resource damage and contamination from years of discharging cooling and process water poisoned with hazardous chemicals/ substances.  Stemming from the making of dyes and organic chemicals, the Buffalo River got to catch the poisons from 1960 through the early 1970's.  In addition to remediation and habitat restoration, the settlement, if court approved, would also have approximately 70 acres of undeveloped shoreline of the Buffalo River preserved in perpetuity, bringing more much needed shoreline fishing access to the City of Buffalo.



Have a Happy Thanksgiving everyone!  We will see you next week, same bat time, same bat channel...  God Bless!