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Realtree Kids June 2005

Send us a picture of your GON Realtree Outdoor kid. Email image and caption details (name, hometown, age, and county where critter or fish was taken) to [email protected].                

Conservation Law Enforcement Corner June 2005

On June 22, 2004 at approximately 11:30 a.m., DNR Ranger First Class Craig Fulghum received a call from a Georgia Power Co. employee who monitors security cameras installed at Yonah Dam. Yonah Dam is located at the upper end of the Tugaloo River above Lake Hartwell in Stephens County. The employee said he was watching…

Editorial-Opinion June 2005

Conventional wisdom suggests that if you do anything positive to promote hunting in an urban setting, you are bound to fail. The antis will come out and shout you down. Conventional wisdom has some holes in it. If you are a sportsman in Georgia, you just had a positive month. May was good. I think…

Harvest More Deer To Feed A Teenager

Heard that there’s a plan to increase deer harvest numbers once again. What’s it up to now, about 97 per hunter? I remember when we didn’t have 97 deer in the state. But then I also remember when DNR Commissioner Noel Holcomb was the fastest deer-undresser, with a regular old kitchen-type butcher knife, you’d ever…

Scrapbook May 2005

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Spy-Cam May 2005

Email your pics to [email protected]. Please include your name, GON subscriber number, hometown, county where the picture was taken, date, time and any interesting details for a caption. Print images can be mailed to GON Spy-Cam, 4331 Seven Islands Road, Madison, GA 30650.

Editorial-Opinion May 2005

It is amazing to think of the efforts sportsmen have gone to, and the positive results that appear to be coming from those efforts. The world is different, the world is better, because sportsmen showed up, stood up, and spoke up. Let me give you four examples. The National Park Service (NPS) administers the Chattahoochee…

Talking Turkey… With An Ashtray?

The ol’ boy saw me coming. Salesman that he was, he had sized me up proper before I got in the door good. But, as they say, ignorance is bliss. And for taking up turkey hunting, I was fairly blissful. “Heard tell you was a’going turkey hunting this weekend,” he grinned. “First time, eh?” “Yeah,…

Conservation Law Enforcement Corner May 2005

At about 2 p.m. on Jan. 4, 2004, David Kettering, of Kennesaw, arrived at the Little Pines Hunting Club in Heard County near Franklin. David is a member of the club, and he had made the trip to retrieve his 24-foot camper trailer for the off-season. He was accompanied by his 21-year-old stepson, Josh Swinks,…

Realtree Kids May 2005

Send us a picture of your GON Realtree Outdoor kid. Email image and caption details (name, hometown, age, and county where critter or fish was taken) to [email protected].

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