The largest land mammal in Florida and the only bear found in the state is the black bear. Males weigh 250 to 450 pounds, while females weigh 125 to 250 pounds. Females give birth to 1 to 5 cubs that are born blind and weigh only 8 to 15 ounces.
Black bears are a Florida conservation success. Florida’s bear population dropped to under 500 in the 1970s. In 1974, they were listed as Threatened and placed on the Endangered and Threatened Species List. With a population of over 4,000, bears were removed from the protected list in 2012.
Florida black bears are athletic – they run up to 35 mph, climb 100 feet up a tree in 30 seconds and are active swimmers. Black bears travel large areas of land to survive. A male’s home range is about 60 square miles, while females have a home range of about 15 miles.
Bears are most active at dusk and dawn, and are coming in closer contact with people. Read this month’s Advice from The Old Farmer’s Almanac on page 2 of SECO News to learn how to spot the signs of bear activity close to your home.
Fun Faun Fact: Florida black bears have a remarkable sense of smell. They can detect scents up to a mile away.
In the Christian Bible as in the Torah in ‘Numbers’ the last book ‘’GOD ‘exchanges the first born male child for the Levites Family!
Numbers 3:44 The Levites are not the rulers of the tribes they are the teachers and workers for their Creator!
As with my ancestors teaching, Creator (GOD), exchanges the Sachem for his own (Shechaim)!
The Shechaim is not the rules he/she is the teacher, sound familiar?
In both cases CREATOR (GD), is and will always be the RULER!
How many Jews today are ruled by their Creator (GD),?
How many Christians today are ruled by their GOD (Jesus Christ)?
How many Native Americans (Indians), are ruled by their/our Creator?
This is sad real sad my friends! 😢🤦♂️😒
As with my special ‘friend/followers’, reading the pages above about the people and the ancestors you could start to understand the facts as told while reading the Torah and proof reading with the bible as in the last book in the ‘TaNaKh’! Numbers!
The Torah, Judaism’s most important text, consists of the first five books of the TaNaKh (also known as the Pentateuch or the Five Books of Moses), the Hebrew Bible.
July 29, 2021 | by Chris Cillizza and Lauren Dezenski
In honor of tonight’s NBA Draft, Marco Rubio performed a remarkable dunk on himself on Thursday.
The Florida Republican senator, who clearly has national ambitions, thought he had found an easy win when he came across a video of Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin arriving in the Philippines — masked and wearing a face shield.
“From the embassy: ‘The Philippine government has mandated that everyone must wear full-coverage face shields together with face masks while in public places. Local governments continue to implement additional requirements to slow the virus’ spread.'”
Donald Trump (C) tours the Edgar Hoover Dike on Lake Okeechobee in Florida, on March 29, 2019, with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (L), and US senators Rick Scott (R) and Marco Rubio (2nd R). (Photo by Nicholas Kamm / AFP) (Photo credit should read NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/Getty Images)
What does forest of tree have to do with runaway fires out west?
I’ll tell you.
At first contact the visitor (your ancestors were amazed about our trees)?
They could not see how our ancestors found their way around so many trees?
A firefighter passes a burning home as the Dixie Fire flares in Plumas County, Calif., Saturday, July 24, 2021. The fire destroyed multiple residences as it tore through the Indian Falls community. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)
The saying that someone “can‘tseetheforestforthetrees” means that he is so involved with the details of a situation that he loses sight of the larger issue.
It is a fairly common expression in English, though the use of “for” can be confusing for some people, since it is a more archaic meaning in this idiom.
This expression can also be reversed, indicating that a person loses sight of details and becomes engrossed in the whole.
It was said the there was so many tree one could walk across them without touching the ground!
Today is different my friends!
For the last 35 to 40 years corrupt politicians controller either the ‘Whitehouse’ or congress or the senate and spent your tax money on them because they could!
We now have control of the Whitehouse and congress so ‘Federal grants’ to help with fires and floods are possible!
Central Florida sees rise in COVID-19 variant cases, hospitalizations
“In Central Florida, at Florida Hospital where I have privileges, and at Celebration Hospital, I’m seeing numbers are going up at both hospitals,” said Dr. Aftab Khan.
(“For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book:
“And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.” [Rev. 22:18–19])
DeSantis sits with Vice President Mike Pence at a local restaurant in May 2020
Scientists and media outlets have given mixed reviews of DeSantis’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.[107][108][109] According to the Sun-Sentinel, “DeSantis, who owes his job to early support from President Donald Trump, imposed an approach in line with the views of the president and his powerful base of supporters. The administration suppressed unfavorable facts, dispensed dangerous misinformation, dismissed public health professionals, and promoted the views of scientific dissenters who supported the governor’s approach to the disease.”[108] By April 2021, Florida ranked in the middle of the pack for both cases and deaths on a per capita basis, placing 27th out of 50 in both measures.[110] A study published in the American Journal of Public Health found substantial underreporting of deaths from COVID-19 in Florida during March to September 2020. Experts noted similar underreporting has occurred throughout the United States.[111][112]
According to public health experts, politics rather than science dictated Florida’s response to COVID-19.[107] DeSantis rejected the implementation of a statewide face mask mandate, belatedly implemented stay-at-home orders, and let his stay-at-home order implemented in April expire.[107] In July 2020, when Florida was a global epicenter of the coronavirus with nearly 5,800 deaths, DeSantis largely sidelined health experts and scientists, with The Washington Post reporting that he relied primarily on his wife, a former television reporter, and his chief of staff, a former hospital executive.[107]
DeSantis’s handling of COVID-19 in Florida was initially unpopular among the state’s voters: as of May 2020, DeSantis was the only U.S. governor whose approval had declined after COVID-19 became widespread in the U.S.[113] But after a few months, DeSantis’s reluctance to impose restrictions in response to the pandemic led to an increase in approval, especially among Republican voters.[114] By February 2021, he generally had positive approval ratings, ranging from 51% to 64%.[115][116][117]
Early in the pandemic, DeSantis boasted about the low number of COVID-19 cases in Florida, and harshly criticized those who had argued that the state’s lax response to the virus was insufficient.[107][118]Experts argued that delays in lockdown would greatly increase Florida’s COVID numbers and leave it susceptible to becoming a new hot spot.[119]
On March 8, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention privately briefed DeSantis that Florida was already experiencing community spread of COVID-19. The next day, he publicly denied that Florida was experiencing community spread of COVID-19.[120] On March 10, federal official Anthony Fauci publicly confirmed that Florida had community spread. DeSantis confirmed Florida’s community spread only on March 14.[120]
By the end of March 2020, Florida had 6,741 confirmed cases of COVID-19. DeSantis declared that he would not issue a statewide stay-at-home order because the Trump administration had not recommended it.[121] On April 1, he ordered that all Floridians stay home for 30 days with exceptions for essential services and activities.[122] He received criticism for falsely stating on April 9 that COVID-19 had caused no fatalities under 25 in the United States. DeSantis acknowledged this error after critics pointed it out, and clarified that there have been no deaths from the virus in people under 25 in Florida.[123][124] In early June, he partially lifted his stay-at-home order, lifting restrictions on bars and cinemas; the same day he lifted the restrictions, Florida recorded the largest case surge in six weeks.[107]
DeSantis sought to have the 2020 Republican National Convention in Jacksonville. In conversations with Trump in May, he said he would not require the use of face masks.[107] By July, as Florida became a global epicenter of the virus, Trump called off the event.[107]During Trump’s reelection campaign, DeSantis worked to help him win Florida. He attended Trump’s rallies and high-fived attendees while not wearing a mask, contrary to public health guidance at the time.[125][126]
In June 2020, DeSantis said the bulk of new cases were present in “younger demographics” and argued that increased testing, particularly of asymptomatic individuals, and more efficient identification of outbreaks in areas such as prisons and in Florida’s agriculture sector were responsible for most of the increase. He emphasized that the strain on the hospital system and medical supplies such as ventilators had decreased since the previous peak in case numbers, and that Florida was ready to handle any additional influx in hospital patients, adding that the state had “twice as many” open hospital beds than on March 1. DeSantis announced that he would reinstate some restrictions on business activity in late June to halt the virus’s spread, but said Florida is “not going back” on reopening the economy, arguing that “people going to a business is not what’s driving” the surge in cases. Anthony Fauci said that states reopening faster than federal guidelines were contributing to a rise in cases.[127]
On June 28, 2020, DeSantis said Florida was in “good shape” in its fight against COVID-19.[128] In September 2020, he lifted all restrictions on capacity in bars and restaurants, despite persistent cases.[129][130]He banned cities and counties from collecting fines from face mask mandates[130] and urged public health officials in Florida cities to focus less on universal COVID-19 testing.[131]
The DeSantis administration largely ignored the scientists in Florida’s Emerging Pathogens Institute, the Sun-Sentinel reported.[120] Instead, in August and September 2020, DeSantis invited to Florida other scientists who endorsed less restrictive COVID-19 policies that he agreed with, so that they could conduct press conferences with him.[120] They included radiologist Scott Atlas, a Trump administration advisor known for spreading misinformation about COVID-19.[6][120]
DeSantis favored reopening schools for in-person learning for the 2020–21 school year.[132] By October, he announced all 67 public school districts were open for in-person learning.[132]
In February 2021, DeSantis threatened to withhold COVID-19 vaccines from counties that criticized the manner in which vaccines were distributed.[133][134]
In May 2021, DeSantis signed a bill into law that prohibited businesses, schools, and government entities from requiring proof of vaccination for use of services.[135]
(“For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book:
“And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.” [Rev. 22:18–19])
Some California Fires might come from ‘Power Grids’?
Question?
If states can place their power grids, oil & gas pipelines,
We need to think about this while there is a president in office that actually cares about you with federal help?
Why not water from the ocean, lakes and rivers?
Some of the ‘western states are in deserts’ however people do live there.
So at points along the power grids oil or/and gas lines one could also include ‘Water Fire Hydrant and salt to fresh water distilleries.
One might wish to include trash to electric and city sewer?
Jeffrey Lamb, manager of extra high voltage stations for LADWP, walks under the last tower delivering 3,210 megawatts 846 miles from the Columbia River in Oregon to the Sylmar Converter Station, on Monday, July 12, 2021 in Los Angeles. (Al Seib/Los Angeles Times/TNS).
LOS ANGELES (KABC) — The Bootleg Fire in southern Oregon continues to rage out of control, already burning more than 150,000 acres. It’s knocked out valuable transmission lines that California imports to stabilize the state’s power grid, causing Monday’s Flex Alert.
California gets it solar power from plants in the San Joaquin Valley, Mojave Desert, the Coachella and Imperial valleys and Las Vegas.
Is each of them so pompous-ass to believe that it is alright to murder your teammates and fans?
They should pick another job in life such as join the Nazi Gestapo or Putin’s hit squads, whatever (You are not an American and for sure not Olympians)!
All players in professional sports and even some in college are indebted to their spot in history to their coaches, school, league, team, sponsors, advertisers, and teammates and mostly to their fans!
Lord please bless and protect the ‘First Lady of the United States’ and get her back home and safe?
(CNN)Worldwide, there is an alarming surge in coronavirus cases — and health experts say a key factor in this latest wave is the highly contagious Delta variant.
The variant is spreading about 55% faster than the alpha strain that was first identified in the United Kingdom late last year, according to the World Health Organization (WHO) — and that strain spreads about 50% faster than the version that first began infecting people in late 2019.
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., returns to her office where members of the House select committee on the January 6th attack on the Capitol are preparing for the start of hearings next week, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, July 22, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
WASHINGTON (AP) — Unfazed by Republican threats of a boycott, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi declared Thursday that a congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection will take on its “deadly serious” work whether Republicans participate or not.
Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., left, and Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., chairman of the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection, speak with reporters after members of the panel met with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to prepare for the start of hearings next week, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, July 22, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
5/5 Slide Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., a members of the House select committee on the January 6th attack on the Capitol, speaks with reporters as he leaves the office of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi as they prepare for the start of hearings next week, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, July 22, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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