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Editor’s Note: In August, DNR Law Enforcement Cpl. Rocky Wainwright was killed in an ATV accident in Twiggs County. The following article was written by a conservation ranger who worked with Rocky. It is with a deep sense of loss that we with the Georgia DNR Law Enforcement Section bring word of the tragic death…
Denver Hill has a freezer full of elk—and he saved the cost of a trip to Colorado—he shot the cow elk in Cherokee County last Saturday. Denver, who lives in the Macedonia community on Highway 20 east of Canton, was heading out Saturday morning about 10:30 a.m. to check the sights on his deer rifle…
The Department of Natural Resources Law Enforcement Section is reeling over the loss of one of their own. On Thursday, Aug. 19, a conservation ranger was killed in the line of duty. According to DNR, Conservation Cpl. Rocky Wainwright, 36, of Meansville in Pike County, was killed in an all-terrain vehicle (ATV) accident around 10:30…
After nearly two months of effort to recapture them, seven of 10 escaped cow elk roaming free in Cherokee County are still on the loose, but state wildlife officials are taking steps to bring the elk roundup to an end. On April 29, 10 Rocky Mountain elk being held in a barn near Woodstock escaped…
Charlie Elliott passed away May 2, 2000 in Covington at the age of 93. The Outdoor Life columnist and outdoorsman, whose exploits were the inspiration for the comic strip character “Mark Trail,” is the namesake for the Charlie Elliot Wildlife Center, a state-owned area along the Jasper and Newton county line that includes Clybel WMA…
At press time, eight of 10 Rocky Mountain elk accidentally released in Cherokee County on April 29 were still on the loose three weeks later. The number of escaped elk may climb, too. The elk were all cows that had been bred, and they are due to calve in early June. According to WRD Biologist…
In his annual “state-of-the-city” speech to the Atlanta City Council on Jan. 5, Atlanta Mayor Bill Campbell announced the city’s intention to hold firearm manufacturers responsible for injuries and deaths caused by criminal gun use in a lawsuit to be filed sometime this year. Already, state lawmakers have taken steps to try to block the…
Four Atkinson County men have been charged in the killing of a western cougar. The south Georgia cat may have been the offspring of a cougar released to test the habitat for the possible release of the endangered Florida panther. On Oct. 29, 1995, a dead cougar was found in a ditch north of Willacoochee.…
A 5-foot-long, 140-pound vasectomized cougar that wandered into Georgia from a Florida wildlife experiment last fall reaffirmed what wildlife authorities have insisted for decades. “If you think you’ve seen a cougar, you probably didn’t see a cougar,” said Vic VanSant, a Georgia Department of Natural Resources (DNR) biologist, ‘This cat was in Georgia six months,…
In 1991, Georgia’s hunters and fishermen were told about a new land acquisition program called Preservation 2000, which Governor Zell Miller was personally creating to acquire 100,000 acres of wildlife habitat, parks and natural areas by 1995. Hunters and fishermen were told that they would participate by paying for 30 percent of the land through…
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