NOTEBOOK: BLACK BEAR SEASON CLOSES.Byline: Keith Lair Staff Writer The Department of Fish and Game closed the statewide black bear hunting season Tuesday. The season ended when the quota of 1,500 bears were harvested. It is the fifth consecutive year the harvest number was reached before the calendar closure, which was Dec. 30. All tags, including those unfilled, must be returned to the DFG's Woldlife Branch, 1415 Ninth St., Sacramento, CA 95814, by Feb. 1. Those who bagged a bear must submit the skull to the DFG DFG Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Council) DFG Department of Fish and Game DFG District Factor Group DFG Data Flow Graph DFG Difference Frequency Generation DFG Diode Function Generator DFG Dog Faced Gremlin for extraction of a tooth. --Snowboarding clinic offered: Girls and women will have a chance to learn how to snowboard when the Girls Learn To Ride holds a clinic Saturday at Mountain High. Girls older than 9, and women, can learn to snowboard through a two-hour lesson session, a full-day lift ticket, snowboard and boot rental, a raffle of snowboarding gear and other items, including CDs. The cost is $29, of which $2 will go to the Boarding For Breast Cancer Fund, which will support breast cancer research. Lessons will be at 9 a.m., 10 a.m., 11 a.m. and noon. There also will be a Ladies Lounge, an action sports festival for young women and an after- party at the Bull Wheel Saloon and Restaurant. The party, open to everyone, will start at 2:30 p.m. and feature a concert by Halo Friendlies The Halo Friendlies is an all girl pop-punk band from Long Beach, CA. After snatching up a guitar in a thrift shop while on her first date with then-boyfriend now-husband Matt Wignall of Havalina/Matt Death and the New Intellectuals, Judita Wignall made the decision to start a and Lo-Ball. Information: (949) 499-4587. Law introduced: Saltwater aquarium owners cannot possess, sell, import or transport a popular algae algae (ăl`jē) [plural of Lat. alga=seaweed], a large and diverse group of primarily aquatic plantlike organisms. These organisms were previously classified as a primitive subkingdom of the plant kingdom, the thallophytes (plants that , Caulerpa taxifola, thanks to a new state law. The law, introduced by state senator Noun 1. state senator - a member of a state senate senator - a member of a senate Tom Harmon Thomas Dudley Harmon (September 28, 1919 - March 15, 1990) was a star player of United States college football, a sports broadcaster, and patriarch of a family of American actors. of Huntington Beach Huntington Beach, city (1990 pop. 181,519), Orange co., S Calif., on the Pacific coast, across from Santa Catalina Island, in an oil-producing area; inc. 1909. It manufactures aerospace vehicles, aircraft parts, optical instruments, and heat transfer equipment. , allows the Department of Fish and Game to confiscate To expropriate private property for public use without compensating the owner under the authority of the Police Power of the government. To seize property. When property is confiscated it is transferred from private to public use, usually for reasons such as and destroy the algae, which is found in pet-supply stores that cater to saltwater hobbyists. When the algae is released into the ocean, it transforms areas into a watery wasteland. DFG already has spent $2 million trying to eradicate the algae from Huntington Harbor and Agua Hedionda Lagoon in northern San Diego County. ``Once the algae is introduced, it multiplies rapidly and blankets the entire bottom, smothering smothering death by asphyxiation. Occurs where poultry are carelessly herded into a corner where they cannot escape and where they are piled four or five birds deep; they will die of asphyxia very quickly. See also crowding. native organisms,'' DFG invasive species coordinator Susan Ellis said. Caulerpa often is shipped from Indonesia attached to coral. Violators face civil penalties of up to $10,000. Snowboarding contest: The Chevy Truck U.S. Snowboard Grand Prix, the first major U.S. snowboarding contest of the season, which is serving as one of the qualifiers for the 2002 Olympics, will begin today at Mammoth Mountain. Most of the country's top athletes, including Tommy Czeschin, Danny Kass, Tricia Byrnes, Rob Kingwill, and Kelly Clark will compete in this Olympic-qualifying event. Mammoth will feature two Superpipe competitions and one exhibition, the Yahoo Sports Big Air and Style Hip Jump. The halfpipe half·pipe or half pipe n. A smooth-surfaced structure shaped like a trough and used for stunts in sports such as in-line skating and snowboarding. competition, set for Friday and Sunday, will help determine the U.S. Olympic team. Five out of six halfpipe Olympic medalists from the 1998 Nagano Winter Olympics will be on-hand, gearing up to defend their medals in Salt Lake City this February. Halfpipe powers Norway and Sweden also will be competing, using it as a qualifier for their respective Olympic teams as well. All of the competition will be held at Mammoth's Superpipe at the Main Lodge. Each day's competition can be viewed on-mountain or from the Main Lodge Sundeck. |
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