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Recreational trapping is becoming more popular to outdoorsmen and avid hunters. Whether it be to help better manage the local deer population or simply get rid of unwanted animals around your home, an upcoming trapping workshop will provide information on how to properly trap and remove them from your land. The workshop is presented by…
A groundbreaking, multi-state study of southeastern coyotes is barely into its fourth month, but scientists are already collecting valuable data about the secret life of canis latrans. “So far it is all functioning well,” said Will Gulsby, a post-doctoral research associate at University of Georgia’s Warnell School of Forestry & Natural Resources, which is leading…
The history of our “Coyote Situation” would make an interesting case study in how different folks deal with an issue. When hunters first sounded the alarm that something was amiss in the deer woods, we were laughed at and ridiculed. Basically we were told to get off our lazy rear ends and learn to hunt…
Bradley Janes, of Evans, says he’s been duck hunting for years, hoping to finally drop a bird with some jewelry. He finally pulled the trigger on a critter wearing hardware, but it wasn’t the prized waterfowl he had hoped for. “I was turkey hunting in Columbia County on Keg Creek WMA on April 22,” said…
We didn’t publish this as an advertisement for AVIAN-X turkey decoys, but I suspect they’ll sell a few because of it. We just thought these photos were cool, and y’all have learned by now that GON editors like to publish weird stuff that happens in the woods. Chris Huggins, of Newnan, sent us these two…
Coyote. The word can bring a multitude of reactions—curiosity, respect, fear, suspicion—depending on your level of interaction with this animal. A new multi-agency study, scheduled to begin in 2015, will help answer many coyote-related questions, including determining what types of resources, such as prey availability and hiding cover, are important to coyotes when establishing territories.…
Law-enforcement folks are trained on how to react in scary situations, and it could have been that knowledge that saved the life of a Jones County deputy sheriff after being attacked by a coyote. “On June 4, 2014, around 11 p.m., I was riding my 4-wheeler on my property,” said Deputy Sheriff Paul Hathaway, who…
Sometimes I just have to get a little dirt under my fingernails… I’ve heard from a good number of folks who read my “Save A Fawn, Trap A Yote” feature in the May issue. I couldn’t have written such a step-by-step article without Ben Poole, of Social Circle. Ben explained in great depth what folks…
“I just want to thank y’all for doing this. I need some help.” Those were the firsts words out of Coyote Cull drawing winner Dennis Shaw, a forester from Shiloh. Well… they were the first words right after he said “Hallelujah!” about six times when he was told he’d won a gun. “I killed one…
The Coyote Cull has a simple theme—it’s time to do something. Coyotes aren’t native to Georgia, and they have a significant impact on deer, turkey, rabbits and other critters. It has been a damaging and lingering mistake to marginalize and dismiss the impact of coyotes in the Georgia woods. Last month we introduced the Coyote…