The Utah Firearms Freedom Act has been pre-filed with, and has passed, an interim committee of the Utah Legislature. Until it gets an official bill number on December 1st, it is known as File # 0032. Because the bill has been adopted as a committee bill of a joint House/Senate interim committee, it will come to both the House and Senate with definite legs when the full Utah Legislature convenes in January.

The Utah bill is at:
http://le.utah.gov/interim/2009/pdf/00001506.pdf

Utah news stories about this are at:

http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_13818284

and

http://www.abc4.com/content/news/state/story/Utah-to-Feds-Keep-your-laws-off-our-guns/x9NOL-GMukKofxGgxcmo8g.cspx
or HERE

The list of states with introduced FFA bills includes: Alaska, Texas, Florida, South Carolina, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. Kentucky, Virginia, Oklahoma, and Colorado are poised to introduce FFAs. Quite a few other states are intending to introduce in the near future. See:
http://FirearmsFreedomAct.com

Gary Marbut, president
Montana Shooting Sports Association
http://www.mtssa.org
author, Gun Laws of Montana
http://www.mtpublish.com

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When bear hunters register their bears in Maine, they are asked to volunteer a tooth from their catch. These teeth are collected by biologists at the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife. They can easily determine the age of the bear and other data that helps them in making decisions on bear management.

The age data collected from the 2008 bear hunt is now available for those interested. If you volunteered a tooth from your bear, you can now find out how old it was.

To view this data, visit the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife website. From this landing page scroll down and you’ll find a link “age of the bear they harvested“. It’s an Excel Spreadsheet.

The oldest bear taken was a female that was 28-years old. The oldest male bear harvested was 20.

MDIFW collected 1,037 volunteer teeth or about 38% of the total harvest.

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I was sent this short video by a reader from Idaho. Here’s his caption:

“Tom,
Thought you might like this short video my 16 year old son took on his cell phone during the archery elk season. Don’t worry about the bear population up in North Idaho, we saw 3 different bears out of this stand in just two days. Guess we’re going to have to start eating bear meat. By the way there is no bear bait out in the area I just have a lot of choke cherries and elderberries on my property.”

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Or I might say it’s as “high” as he’s been in awhile……….well except for that brandy.

This is a view of the top of the stand. It is 16′ from the ground.

The seat and safety ring pivot together all the way around making it a safe and stable platform to take pictures or shoot from. I also put a strap around myself and the seat back so I won’t slide out when I
take a SNOOZE now and then.

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Ed Morrissey of Hot Air has a revealing post today about hacked emails at one of the world’s leading global warming advocacy center that sure looks like someone has been hiding the real facts and fudging others to support climate change conclusions.

Update: 11/20/09 5:22 p.m. = At least for now, here is a searchable data base of all the emails that have been put out into the public forum.

Climate Depot has tons of information on this.

Tom Nelson has info.

Update: 11/21/2009 7:25 a.m.

New York Times spins story. Author included in emails in question.

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It’s almost gut busting laughable! The man-made global warming alarmist, even though they are admitting that temperatures haven’t risen in 10 years and that it raises serious doubts about whether the methods and equipment used for modeling are worth the price of dirt, they still insist nothing has changed.

From Spiegel Online International:

Even though the temperature standstill probably has no effect on the long-term warming trend, it does raise doubts about the predictive value of climate models, and it is also a political issue. For months, climate change skeptics have been gloating over the findings on their Internet forums. This has prompted many a climatologist to treat the temperature data in public with a sense of shame, thereby damaging their own credibility.

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Ironically, climate change appears to have stalled in the run-up to the upcoming world summit in the Danish capital, where thousands of politicians, bureaucrats, scientists, business leaders and environmental activists plan to negotiate a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions. Billions of euros are at stake in the negotiations.(emphasis added)

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