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The WRD is completing hunter-survey data from Georgia’s 2005-06 deer season, and the information on hunter numbers is not good. Deer-hunter numbers continued to decline at an alarming rate. According to the survey, the number of deer hunters in Georgia last season, including licensed resident, honorary license holder, and non-resident hunters, was 238,000, a decline…
A decade ago if you mentioned that hunters should be allowed on Georgia State Parks to deal with a serious ecological problem caused by too many deer, folks looked at you like you had two heads. Each time that GON brought the issue up, the responses ranged from a parks-aren’t-for-hunting attitude to flat-out denials that…
Back in the 1950s, the American Humane Society was responsible for setting up animal shelters across the country, a needed and valuable venture that dealt with stray dogs and cats. Apparently some folks wanted the organization to get more involved in animal-rights’ issues. A split occurred, and the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS)…
Quick quiz… what’s more frightening for the future of hunting and wildlife conservation? Is it that hunter numbers are falling in Georgia, and that the percentage of hunters under 34 years old gets smaller and smaller each year? Or, is it that animal-rights groups like PETA and the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS)…
Things at the state capitol were status quo in 2006. That is to say, they changed every few minutes, and staying on top of legislative happenings got harder as the session went along and bills moved through various stages of the lawmaking process. Two different bills dealing with baiting, a carry-over bill from 2005 that…
It was unanimous. Every person who expressed an opinion about the deer hunts planned for Fort Yargo State Park were in favor of the deer population being reduced. Approximately 75 people showed up at the DNR public meeting on the proposed hunting regulations April 20 at Fort Yargo State Park, and the pending hunts were…
Two men are dead after two different nighttime, head-on boat collisions at Lake Jackson. The first accident occurred Friday night, April 14, at 10:20 p.m., and it involved two bass boats, one of which was competing in a Friday night pot tournament. According to Law Enforcement Col. Terry West, who cited an interview with the…
Encouraged by the successful quota deer hunts at Hard Labor Creek State Park last season, Georgia Parks is now planning a similar quota hunt at Fort Yargo State Park in Winder. Pending approval of the DNR Board of Natural Resources, two firearms hunts are planned to reduce an overpopulation of deer on the park, which…
So you thought National Forest land was safe from the kind of rampant selloffs that prompted Weyerhauser to dump hundreds of thousands of acres of Georgia woodlands? Think again. If a proposal by the Bush administration goes through Congress, Georgia could lose more than 4,500 acres of the Chattahoochee and Oconee National Forests — including…
As we mark the passing of another year, we’re happy to report that hunting is still allowed, fishing hasn’t been banned, and ground beef and milk are still for sale at the local grocery store. We can also report that HSUS and PETA and other animal-rights groups are not happy about these things, and they…