Smart dodged the celebratory Gatorade bath from his players after the game, Smart said he wanted to get a real shower and get to work on catching the team Georgia has been chasing for five years. The former walk-on completed his first nine passes against Michigan on the way to yards and showed more than enough arm strength on a yard bomb to James Cook in the second quarter. Bennett was named offensive MVP. The Orange Bowl showed that closing the gap on Ohio State is one thing, but there are two teams currently at the top of college football in an entirely different class as the rest.
The Bulldogs have lost seven straight overall meetings against the Tide, including the CFP championship in overtime. Follow Ralph D. In fact, it might have made them even stronger. UW Husky men make late-game run that gives them win vs. Rather, we focus on discussions related to local stories by our own staff. You can read more about our community policies here. Two years ago, state wildlife officials temporarily closed sandhill crane hunting at Hackberry Flat when a whooping crane showed up on the wetland area with a group of sandhill cranes.
Sandhill cranes are gray, stand 3 to 4 feet tall with a wingspan of 5 to 6 feet. Whooping cranes are snowy white with black tips at either end of a 7- to 8-foot wingspan. In Wisconsin, opponents of a state bill that would open a sandhill crane hunting season are pointing to the shooting deaths of the four whooping cranes in Oklahoma as why it should not be legalized.
And in an instant four birds are gone forever. Whooping cranes migrate through Oklahoma on their way to wintering grounds along the coastal marshes of south Texas, the Aransas National Wildlife Refuge. In the past, whooping cranes have been spotted at Lake Hefner in Oklahoma City, but their main migration path is primarily west of the Oklahoma City area through western Oklahoma.
More: Do the dead stick drift: How to catch big stripers in the winter on Lake Texoma. Whooping cranes were charter members of the Endangered Species Act when it was signed in They are endangered mainly as a result of habitat loss, but unregulated hunting in the early s also contributed to their decline. At one time, the range for the birds extended throughout midwestern North America.
By , there were less than 25 whooping cranes remaining in the wild and perhaps as few as By the year , the population of whooping cranes had climbed to birds through conservation efforts.
Four years ago, a survey of the population of whooping cranes wintering in south Texas climbed to more than for the first time since the late s. Growing the population is difficult because whooping cranes typically will have only two eggs per year. On average, only one chick will survive from that clutch. The four deaths in Oklahoma are the most whooping cranes ever killed at one time in a poaching incident, according to the foundation.
And we can continue to be the voice and act for whooping cranes on their wintering grounds in Texas and through reintroduction efforts. More: 'If it's not a , it's close to it:' Oklahoma Wildlife Department shifts bass management strategy.
The cameras are fully functioning smartphones using a software application from Visual Labs, a California software company. The device can also function as a digital camera, an audio recorder and a personnel locator.
As soon as it is uploaded I can watch it up here in the office in Oklahoma City. Game wardens are instructed to use the cameras anytime they have interaction with the public, Erdmann said. Reporter Ed Godfrey looks for stories that impact your life.
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