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Marty Fischer, of Kennesaw, has been named the 1990 Georgia State Duck Calling Champion. It’s his second state title. Marty also won the state competition in 1987. The Georgia Slate and Southeastern Regional Duck Calling Championships were held a week ago Saturday at the Cherokee Rose Sporting Clays in Griffin in conjunction with a Ducks…
As expected, David J. Waller has been named the new Director of the DNR Game and Fish Division. The Board of Natural Resources approved the appointment at its Aug. 29, 1990 meeting. Waller succeeds current Director Leon Kirkland who retires later this year. Kirkland will assist in the transition. Waller has a strong background in…
Friday, Aug. 16, 1990 began as a normal day for John Rawlins, 17, of McRae. It was a typical summer day in Telfair County, hot and muggy. John’s father was cutting the grass at a tract of land they own, and John, an avid deer hunter, decided to do a little pre-season scouting. John has…
Scott Webb and Cliff Scott, of Woodstock, were putting in near the mouth of the Etowah River at Lake Allatoona on July 9, 1990 when they saw what appeared to be a large fish floating on the surface about 100 yards away. “We got about halfway to it when Cliff stammered, ‘That ain’t no fish……
Red wolves may be released in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park on the state lines of Tennessee and North Carolina if research shows the park to be suitable habitat. The red wolf once ranged across the Southeast but has been exterminated from most of its former range by aggressive predator control and habitat loss.…
Imagine driving down a Georgia highway after dark when a 400-lb. African eland steps into your headlights. Exactly that happened to a Cumming man in the southbound lanes of Highway 400 two weeks ago. At about 11 p.m. Tuesday night, Oct. 17, motorists reported a large animal under the guard rail on Highway 400 approximately…
You are going to have more places to go hunting this fall, and it’s land you helped buy. To date, state hunting-land purchases with money put up by hunters and fishermen total approximately 33,000 acres. The land, comprised of 11 different tracts, is all located in middle and south Georgia. Most of the new state-owned…
The crisis is over; the kids are safe; the Allatoona alligator has been captured The story started in mid-June with the first reports called into the Northwest Region Game and Fish Division office of an alligator sighting at Lake Allatoona. The menacing gator was reportedly lurking near Little River Landing—specifically in the first cove on…
Game and Fish Division Biologist Todd Holbrook has been named the new assistant chief of the Game Management Section of the Game and Fish Division. Holbrook, who was selected as the Biologist of the Year for 1988, was formerly the state waterfowl biologist in the Fort Valley office. Prior to that assignment, he was a…
Pritch Morgan was killed last Oct. 9 in Oglethorpe County. As he made his way to his bow stand, Pritch was shot by a man with a rifle in the woods during archery season. In the wake of that tragedy, Georgia hunters demanded that laws be strengthened to harshly deal with criminal acts committed in…
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