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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…
The Georgia Chapter of Safari Club International (SCI) was proud to host Georgia veterans and family members for its annual Veterans Deer Hunt on Dec. 5 in Cedartown. Some of the veterans had never hunted, and others had never experienced success on a deer hunt. After a warm welcome and introductions, veterans were treated to…
People commonly see dead does and other animals on roads but rarely a 14-point buck killed by a vehicle. When that happens, it creates a buzz among local sportsmen. Such a buck turned up on Highway 33 just south of Douthit Road near Sylvester in Worth County. This deer had quite a history in the…
Local bass tournament anglers love to compete and they love to cash checks, but for most, there’s a dream in the backs of their minds… fish the Bassmaster Classic. Four local Georgia anglers now have that chance today and tomorrow on Lake Eufaula. A field of 358 anglers (179 teams) began the Bassmaster Team Championship…