Public Meetings for Georgia’s 2015-2017 Hunting Regulations

Every two years, WRD hosts a series of public meetings to get hunter input prior to making hunting-regulation proposals for the upcoming hunting seasons. The next round of these public meetings will be for the 2015-2017 hunting regulations. Meeting dates and locations are printed below. All meetings start at 7 p.m.

At these meetings, biologists or other WRD Game Management staff will generally present information on hunting-related topics. Then, hunters are allowed to speak on those topics or on any other hunting-related subject they wish to speak about.

GON spoke with chief of WRD’s Game Management John Bowers about what sort of information would be presented by WRD this time around, and he mentioned three main items: a deer season end date, buck-only hunting dates and a WMA quota-hunt application fee. These issues line up with this month’s VOTES questions. Turn to page 12 for more information on these three issues.

For those unable to make the public meetings, a page will be up on the WRD website that will provide folks instructions on how to make written comments. Keep checking www.gohuntgeorgia.com.

Jan. 5, 2015:
Southern Crescent Technical College, Room B132
1533 Hwy 19 S,
Thomaston, GA 30286

Jan. 6, 2015:
Coastal Electric Co-op (auditorium)
1265 S. Coastal Highway,
Midway, GA 3132

Jan. 6, 2015:
Blue Ridge EMC,
875 Main Street East,
Young Harris, GA 30582

Jan. 7, 2015:
Nathan Dean Center,
604 Goodyear Ave,
Rockmart, GA 30153

Jan. 7, 2015:
Pope Center,
48 Lexington Rd.,
Washington, GA 30673

Jan. 7, 2015:
Southwest Georgia Technical College,
15689 U.S. Highway 19,
Thomasville, GA 31792

Jan. 8, 2015:
Gwinnett County Justice and Administration Center,
75 Langley Drive,
Lawrenceville, GA 30046

Jan. 8, 2015:
Dodge County PFA Group building, 325 Dodge Lake Road,
Eastman, GA 31023