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Last October, a film crew followed Christopher Coppola, a United States Fish and Wildlife Service field biologist from Georgia, and two of his colleagues onto the black waters of the Suwannee River to capture footage of the Suwannee alligator snapping turtle (M. Suwanniensis), a newly recognized species of alligator snapping turtle found only in the…
Travis “T-Bone” Turner needs prayers. The beloved Bone Collector T.V. personality from Hogansville just announced publicly that he is fighting cancer, which will result in his right leg being amputated above the knee next week. According to a post on Travis’s Facebook page yesterday, it all started in July 2021 when he asked a doctor…
Recently, I was walking across one of my food plots when I noticed a small piece of rock. It had an unusual shape. When I eased it from the ground, I quickly realized it was a Native American projectile point, often called an arrowhead. I was thrilled to be holding in my hand an ancient…
The Georgia Department of Natural Resources (DNR) today announced a new program aimed at encouraging high school students to explore careers in conservation. The Georgia DNR Career Academy, a week-long, overnight summer camp, will be held July 17-23, 2022, at Charlie Elliott Wildlife Center in Mansfield and Georgia 4-H at Camp Jekyll on Jekyll Island.…
Woods-N-Water hunting and and fishing outfitters, one of GON‘s Youth Big-Buck Contest sponsors, was recently voted “Best of Georgia”‘ in the Hunting and Fishing Services category by the Georgia Business Journal. “Everyone at Woods-N-Water Services is truly honored and blessed to have received the Georgia Business Journal 2021 Best in Georgia award,” said Blaine Burley,…
Boat ramps in Liberty and Bryan counties will undergo repair work beginning tomorrow, Jan. 13, 2022, and continuing into the following week. A contractor for the Georgia Department of Natural Resources will repair the courtesy docks at the Sunbury boat ramp in Liberty County and the Demeries Creek boat ramp in Bryan County. The boat…
A sample recently collected from a hunter harvested, white-tailed deer in west-central Lauderdale County, Alabama has been confirmed positive for Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD). This is the first case of CWD detected in Alabama’s deer herd. “CWD was first detected in Tennessee and Mississippi in 2018 and has been moving slowly toward Alabama,” said Chris…
VOTES, which stands for Voice Of The Educated Sportsman, is a GON survey that has been around for more than two decades. A question on the survey each and every year is Rate Your Deer Season, which gives us county-specific ratings that can be compared to historical trends. We’d like to hear how your deer…
Editor’s Note: Rosmarie Kelly, PhD MPH is a Public Health Entomologist on the Vector-Borne & Zoonotic Diseases Team working for the Georgia Department of Public Health. Kelly was at the Oaky Woods WMA check station collecting tick data from harvested bears during the one-day middle Georgia bear season on Dec. 18. The Department of Public…
Beginning Monday, Jan. 3, 2022, the Clybel WMA Rifle and Pistol Range will be closed for maintenance and renovation work. As part of the environmental stewardship plan for the range, the lead in the berms must be periodically reclaimed and recycled. In addition to reclaiming the lead from the range, the berms will be renovated to…