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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…
The reaction was disbelief when on Sept. 28, 1993 a Brunswick man claimed he had shot a “lion” while bowhunting at Paulks Pasture WMA. Unfortunately, it was no joke. Sort of… It’s wasn’t a lion, but a man had shot a western cougar that had been released in north Florida as part of a wildlife…
North Georgia is still reeling from the impact of the historic blizzard of ‘93 that dumped up to 2 feet of snow in the mountains, and deer hunters are likely to feel the effects for years to come. Six days after the storm, on Friday, March 19, a crew running three chainsaws and a bulldozer…
On July 6, three immature peregrine falcons were leased by the Georgia Game Management Section from hacking site on the rim of Tallulah Gorge. Typically the young falcons will remain in the area where they were released for six weeks or so before they migrate out of the area. But one of the young falcons…
A Georgia senator has taken the lead in Washington to protect hunters from harassment from anti-hunting groups on national forest lands. Sen. Wyche Flower Jr. (D-GA) last week introduced the “Recreational Hunting Safety and Preservation Act of 1991,” which would assess civil penalties of up to $10,000 for each violation of harassing hunters on national…
The state Board of Natural Resources as its May 23 meeting approved the 1991-92 Hunting Regulations after the public had one last chance to comment on the proposed regs. Turnout was light for three Game Management Section meetings held the second week of May. Just 16 people showed up at the Marietta meetings to listen…
Back on April 26 at the Georgia Wildlife Federation Awards Banquet, Gov. Zell Miller outlined a plan he called Preservation 2000. The goal of the plan is to purchase 100,000 acres of Georgia’s environmentally sensitive areas. Last Tuesday he appointed a 15-member panel and assigned them the job of making the plan work, a stiff…
They came from all over Georgia—Calhoun, Bremen, Griffin, Carollton, Gainesville, Toccoa, Macon, Warner Robins—hundreds of hunters taking time to come to a meeting in Atlanta, concerned about what might be happening to the opportunity to hunt, trap and fish on federal refuges. The Federal Refuges Planning Team came to Atlanta March 11 for a “workshop”…