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Black bear hunting opportunities have expanded this year as a result of regulation changes adopted by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC), Commissioner Joe Martens announced today. “Under Governor Cuomo’s NY Open for Fishing and Hunting initiative, New York is working to increase hunting opportunities for sportsmen and sportswomen,” Commissioner Martens said. “With these changes, DEC is implementing strategies of the recently adopted Black Bear Management Plan.” More importantly, DEC deemed the changes necessary to limit population growth and range expansion by black bears in New York. Bears are a tremendous resource in New York, but they can have negative impacts too, through damage to camps, crops, homes and other property. In extreme cases they are a serious threat to public safety. DEC’s bear plan fosters a comprehensive approach to reduce negative black bear impacts by increasing public awareness of its role in preventing human-bear conflicts, addressing individual incidents of bear damage and reducing bear populations where necessary. The adopted season changes are as follows: establish bear hunting seasons in all of upstate New York (all counties north of New York City); create a special early firearms season (Sept. 6 – Sept. 21) for bears in specific Wildlife Management Units (WMUs) in the Catskills and western Hudson Valley region; and provide a uniform start date (Sept. 13) for bowhunting and early firearms bear season in the Northern Zone. After careful consideration of public comments received on the draft bear plan last winter and on the proposed regulations this summer, DEC adopted the hunting season changes in accordance with the final Black Bear Management Plan. The purpose of the changes is to maintain bear population levels that are acceptable to the public while providing sustainable opportunity for New York’s big game hunters. The NY Open for Fishing and Hunting Initiative is an effort to improve recreational opportunities for sportsmen and women and to boost tourism activities throughout the state. This initiative includes streamlining fishing and hunting licenses, reducing license fees, improving access for fishing and increasing hunting opportunities in New York State. In support of this initiative, this year’s budget includes $6 million in NY Works funding to support creating 50 new land and water access projects to connect hunters, anglers, bird watchers and others who enjoy the outdoors to more than 380,000 acres of existing state and easement lands that have not reached their full potential. These 50 new access projects include building new boat launches, installing new hunting blinds and building new trails and parking areas. In addition, the 2014-15 budget includes $4 million to repair the state's fish hatcheries; and renews and allows expanded use of crossbows for hunting in New York State. This year's budget also reduces short-term fishing licenses fees; increases the number of authorized statewide free fishing days to eight from two; authorizes DEC to offer 10 days of promotional prices for hunting, fishing and trapping licenses; and authorizes free Adventure Plates for new lifetime license holders, discounted Adventure Plates for existing lifetime license holders and regular fee Adventure Plates for annual license holders. The full text of the adopted regulations and a summary of public comments on this rulemaking are available on the DEC’s website at www.dec.ny.gov/regulations/34113.html. The resulting 2014 bear hunting seasons can also be found on DEC’s website at: www.dec.ny.gov/outdoor/28605.html. The final Black Bear Management Plan for New York State, 2014-2024 is available at www.dec.ny.gov/animals/7215.html. Key elements of the final plan include the scientific monitoring of bear populations; continued use of stakeholders to assess bear impacts and identify population trend objectives; recommendations to expand areas open to bear hunting throughout upstate New York and to increase hunting opportunities in portions of southeastern New York. This post has been promoted to an article

It was off pretty good in spots, which is why it took me so long to level. Good thing my neighbor needed dirt!

Thanks, just a few more things to finish up on the plumbing side of things. Need some valves and other odds and ends. But I wanted to get everything connected and running to start dumping in the bleach.

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Wew after a few weekends of leveling, and crazyness the pool was officially filled up by last night. I opted for extruded foam instead of sand for a number of reasons for the pool bottom. There were a number of articles that recommended it, it gives a firm but comfortable bottom. Plus I didnt have to deal with 3 tons of sand. I used a foam cove as well. The hardest part was getting the ground level by digging out from the lowest point, and then getting the pavers in and level as well. After that everything went fairly smooth. The scariest part was cutting the liner to install the skimmer and return. I have my old intex pump and sand filter setup I used from my temp intex pool, it's a perfect size for this one as well (was way overkill for my temp pool). Just have to wait for the water to warm up now, stocking up on bleach too. If anyone is interested I only use bleach, borax and baking soda to maintain my pool (for the most part). Cool place to read up on this stuff is : http://www.troublefreepool.com/threads/4935-TFPC-for-Beginners The only time a chlorine tablet is in my pool is if I'm going to be away for more then 3 days. To much CYA, which is in all the store bought chlorine leads to ever decreasing effectiveness of the bleach / chlorine. The pool store likes to call this chlorine lock, which is a BS term, but it means your CYA is to damn high. The only way to get rid of it is to drain your pool partially. pics:

Good luck finding a train camera in NYC. You are better off ordering one off Amazon to your hotel in NYC.

I also toss sea foam in my tanks, a heavy shot, so its all lubed up and protected till I start it next season.

Hey all, had some unexpected downtime on the site today. Had to update the backend and perform a reboot, took a bit longer then expected. Should be all good now!

I have one, its awesome with the kids and the pool.

With new state legislation authorizing the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) to allow taking of big game (deer and bear) or small game by the use of a crossbow at certain times and places in New York, DEC is now accepting public comment on proposed regulation changes so crossbows may be a legal implement for the fall 2014 hunting seasons. DEC will accept written public comment on the proposed hunting rule changes through July 21, 2014. “Crossbow hunting is growing across the country and Governor Cuomo’s commitment to increase hunting opportunities here in New York State is demonstrated by the signing of the new law to authorize the use of crossbows for hunting under certain circumstances,” said DEC Commissioner Joe Martens. Specifically, the law changes authorize DEC to: Allow the take of deer and bear by the use of a crossbow during a limited portion of the early bowhunting seasons (14 days at the end of the existing bowhunting season in the Southern Zone, and 10 days in the Northern Zone) and during any big game hunting season in which use of a firearm (shotgun, rifle or muzzleloader) is allowed, except for the Youth Deer Hunting weekend and the January firearms deer season on Long Island. Allow the take of small game mammals, wild turkey and other upland game birds by the use of a crossbow during their respective hunting seasons. DEC’s proposed rule changes also clarify the technical descriptions of a legal crossbow and the license privilege and training requirements for any person hunting with a crossbow, as specified in legislation. The new law prohibits all hunting with crossbows in Suffolk, Nassau and Westchester counties or in the archery-only portions of Albany and Monroe counties, and DEC’s proposed rule reflects these restrictions. Details of the proposed rule can be viewed in the June 4, 2014 publication of the New York State Register and on DEC’s website at www.dec.ny.gov/regulations/34113.html#Part1Part2p. For a general summary of the law, see DEC’s information on crossbow hunting at www.dec.ny.gov/outdoor/68802.html. DEC’s position on crossbow use for deer hunting is provided in Appendix 5 of the NYS Deer Management Plan (www.dec.ny.gov/docs/wildlife_pdf/deerplan2012.pdf). Governor Cuomo signed the changes to Environmental Conservation Law in April, 2014. DEC’s proposal maximizes the use of crossbows allowed under law’s provisions. Citizens who wish to make formal public comments through July 21 may do so by sending an email to: [email protected] (include “crossbow regulations” in the subject line) or by writing to: Mr. Bryan L. Swift, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, Bureau of Wildlife, 625 Broadway, Albany, NY 12233-4754. The NY Open for Fishing and Hunting Initiative is an effort to improve recreational opportunities for sportsmen and women and to boost tourism activities throughout the state. This initiative includes streamlining fishing and hunting licenses, reducing license fees, improving access for fishing and increasing hunting opportunities in New York State. In support of this initiative, this year’s budget includes $6 million in NY Works funding to support creating 50 new land and water access projects to connect hunters, anglers, bird watchers and others who enjoy the outdoors to more than 380,000 acres of existing state and easement lands that have not reached their full potential. These 50 new access projects include building new boat launches, installing new hunting blinds and building new trails and parking areas. In addition, the 2014-15 budget includes $4 million to repair the state's fish hatcheries; and renews and allows expanded use of crossbows for hunting in New York State. This year's budget also reduces short-term fishing licenses fees; increases the number of authorized statewide free fishing days to eight from two; authorizes DEC to offer 10 days of promotional prices for hunting, fishing and trapping licenses; and authorizes free Adventure Plates for new lifetime license holders, discounted Adventure Plates for existing lifetime license holders and regular fee Adventure Plates for annual license holders. This post has been promoted to an article

My neighbor got a "used" commercial leaf blower that way, just had to replace the gas tank.

Thats a big bear.

Where that arrow points is right below the head gasket, it felt wet from under the gasket down. I'll have to clean it up then get it heated up again and watch it to know for sure.

Its nothing really to look at, I bought i right after I got a house and had a garage for a project car. And after the house came kids, 2 of them, so I have had zero time for the mustang really. Needs a cowl hood, paint job, new block, new fuel system, the list goes on and on. Long story short I wanted another fox body because that was my first car ever. Antifreeze is seeping out unfortunately. Not much just a tiny bit, so pretty sure I'll be doing gaskets, checked the oil it was clean. Arrow shows where the antifreeze was (hard to see) This is a very super generous photo where you can not see how bad the paint is lol. Its original paint so, can't expect much.

Its a stock block w/GT40 heads pushing 8lbs of boost. I've read these thin decks on the GT40 heads suck. I really don't want to change them up until I have the money for a dark block. I wish I could find my dyno sheet, but its 430hp 520 lbs of torque at the wheels.

I heard good things and bad about those cosmetics. Most seem to get away with the felpro's 9333's pushing way more boost then I do. Also the cosmetics dont seem to play nice with the crap heads I have on the car. Anyways, I was kidding about the last time I did head gaskets, it wasn't that long ago. I just despise it unless I was doing it by choice, like a new set of heads I changed the oil, everything looked fine. Was a bit more dirty then I thought it would be.

Poop or birth?

That made me laugh Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk

I haven't done a pair of head gaskets in over 15 years when I had my first mustang and shot it with a 200 shot of nitrous. My project car which is a turbo mustang and put a total of 203 miles on in 4 years might be in need of some. Going to swap the oil tomorrow go see what the deal is but I see some seeping from the heads. Maybe I can retorque them but 99% of the time that never works. Anyone done one lately? Sent from my VS980 4G using Tapatalk

I already got some robo calls for a campaign for Rob, telling me to Google how Cuomo cheated on his property taxes.

I hate soccer, but my daughter has fun playing it. With that said, let her make the decision.

Legally or illegally? But anyways, to leave to store tomorrow, legally, you wouldn't even with a permit unless you already did the paperwork ahead of time.

Anyone see/hear of this? VERONA, N.Y. - The National Weather Service says central New York was strafed by a tornado packing winds up to 100 mph. The storm hit the Oneida County Town of Verona at about 10 p.m. Tuesday. The weather service says it left a nine-mile path of damage into the neighboring Town of Westmoreland, knocking down road signs and tearing the roof from a gas station. Preliminary results indicate it was an EF-1 tornado, and it's the second twister to hit upstate New York in the past month. An EF3-rated tornado with winds up to 140 mph tore through Duanesburg in rural Schenectady County in late May. It flipped over at least two tractor-trailer rigs, overturned two 5-ton storage units, leveled one home, and knocked down trees and power lines but caused no injuries.