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It wasn’t the news Jay Crouch, of Eatonton, wanted to hear on a December afternoon. His wife’s grandmother called to say there appeared to be a deer floating in her 3-acre pond, which sits on property where Jay and his son, Ethan, 10, hunt. In fact, they’d been hunting a big one all year. “I…
During the Oaky Woods December 1-4 deer hunt, many of the 448 hunters in attendance wondered if the WMA would even exist next year, as the Georgia DNR Board was set to discuss the possible purchase of the property at their Dec. 7-8 meeting. A “no” vote could have possibly meant the end of…
We’re not going to rename state-managed hunting areas as recreational areas, but other users of some Wildlife Management Areas (WMAs) will have to purchase a stamp or short-term pass called a GORP. Those are the recommendations of a DNR steering committee that looked at WMA uses and users. When revealed last May, both proposals drew…
We’re not going to rename state-managed hunting areas as recreational areas, but other users of some Wildlife Management Areas (WMAs) will have to purchase a stamp or short-term pass called a GORP. Those are the recommendations of a DNR steering committee that looked at WMA uses and users. When revealed last May, both proposals drew thousands…
In early November, utility company contractors inspecting a right-of-way on private property in southwest Georgia stumbled upon two systems aimed at food plots and designed to fire shotguns unmanned. According to a bulletin from the Georgia Information Sharing and Analysis Center, the systems were linked to a web-accessible camera system that would allow the weapons…
At first glance, Kristen Sharpe, 13, of Uvalda, thought she was looking at a cow when she peeked out the window into the 10-acre field behind her house. The home-schooler was at home watching “Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman” on the television on Dec. 3 when her Beagle-Rottweiler mix Herby started barking. Kristen said Herby had…
Georgia now has a die-hard hunter heading up the Department of Natural Resources (DNR). On Dec. 8, Mark Williams, of Jesup, took the helm of an agency that began almost a century ago, funded by sportsmen, to protect and enhance wildlife. DNR’s days of being the Game & Fish Commission may be history, but to…
Saturday, Nov. 6 started out as a typical deer hunt and ended with the biggest kill of my life. I set out with hunting partner Josh Cannon, and we headed for our private tract of land in south Bibb County. We were going deer hunting and knew it would be a good morning with the…
There is strong discontent between the field staff in Game Management and the WRD/Game Management headquarters in Social Circle. In July, the field staff vented annomoulsy via an employee survey. As these comments attest, game management programs, wildlife and sportsmen are suffering, and the staff that implements those programs consider themselves poorly led. Each number…
It was a typical late Tuesday afternoon for Rhonda Peppers, of Bostwick. It was Nov. 2, and she had come home from work and planned to do some afternoon housework. Her son, Dylan, was 3 miles away in a deer stand, and her husband, Donald, was getting in his truck to head off to work.…
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