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Giving A Helping Hand At Piedmont NWR Dear GON, In the October GON, I saw the article about the wheelchair hunt that was going to happen at Piedmont NWR. I saw they needed volunteers, so I contacted their office and signed up. What a great experience it was! I was able to get hooked up…
Each month we turn back the clock to see what was being reported in the pages of GON, both 20 and 10 years ago. Here’s a look back at what appeared in GON. 20 Years Ago: December 1996 Deer Decoy Nabbed!: An opening weekend deer decoy detail in Lincoln County—aimed at catching night hunters—instead caught…
Although I well know that scenarios of the following sort happen to no one else on the planet besides me, attempt, if you will, to wrap your thinker around this… It’s been a long day, having left middle Georgia before first light and driving nearly 300 miles round trip back to my driveway—in which sits…
I am old enough to recall the assassination of John Kennedy. I know exactly where I was when I heard the news. I was in a classroom in North Cobb High School. Officials at the school chose to withhold the news until just at the end of the day, when they made the announcement to…
The Hall of Shame column is designed to highlight the efforts of Georgia DNR Law Enforcement Division (LED) officers who, among their many duties, protect Georgia’s wildlife, sportsmen and natural resources from game-law violators Irwin County: On Nov. 20, 2015, Cpl. John Stokes received a call about someone shooting at night off Black Gum Road…
North GA Wildfires Last month, in early November, three separate forest fires erupted in north Georgia. Fires in Floyd, Fannin and Rabun counties threatened lives, homes, forest land and wildlife in our state. It has been a “perfect storm” for forest fires with no measurable rain in most of our state since late August. This…
While most Georgia hunters were hanging out in the deer woods the weekend of Nov. 11-13 looking for a rutting buck, DNR didn’t let the weekend go by without hosting another one of its Hunt and Learn programs designed to engage youth and their parents in hunting. The Nov. 11-13 program was for rabbit hunting.…
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The Hall of Shame column is designed to highlight the efforts of Georgia DNR Law Enforcement Division (LED) officers who, among their many duties, protect Georgia’s wildlife, sportsmen and natural resources from game-law violators. Echols County: On Aug. 30, 2013, Sgt. Patrick Dupree of the DNR Law Enforcement Division was conducting surveillance for nighttime deer…
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