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With assistance from state and regional agencies, four counties in southwest Georgia have installed signage to address contamination associated with the illegal dumping of deer carcasses. The Pataula Creek watershed, located in Stewart, Quitman, Randolph and Clay counties, contains several stream segments which are listed as impaired by the Georgia Environmental Protection Division (EPD) for…
With generous funding support from the National Fish & Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) Conservation Partners Program and Cotton Incorporated, Quail Forever and agricultural industry allies are excited to unveil a new precision agriculture planning partnership available now to producers in the southern United States with emphasis in Georgia. This new program—Precision Partnership for Working Lands—integrates agricultural…
Mark Malueg, of Jefferson, was out for some meat collection on Nov. 13 while hunting in Oglethorpe County, but he ended up filming a buck make the grunt-snort-wheeze sound it sometimes makes during the rut. “I killed a doe early in the morning hunt as she entered a food plot,” said Mark. “About 30 seconds…
Your last chance to apply for a quota turkey hunt on a Georgia WMA is Feb. 15. Before you make your quota-hunt choice and maybe burn some priority points, you should check out the latest harvest and hunting pressure data on these WMAs. The charts included below in this article show a long list of…
Features: Oconee Crappie, Pushing For February Slabs Guide Doug Nelms and Jimmy Brantley of Jiffy Jigs detail Lake Oconee’s awesome action for big prespawn crappie. The Georgia WMA Turkey-Hunting Special The public-land gobbler harvest is still dropping, but some areas are definitely better than others. Here’s the statewide WMA data. The Whaley Way For February…
Of the 1,232 Rate Your Season ballots sent to GON, 24.3% of respondents ranked their deer season as “Excellent,” which is the highest percentage of excellent rankings GON has on record since the 1997-98 deer hunting season. Only 12.3% of hunters rated their 2019-20 deer seasons as “Poor.” This is the lowest percentage of hunters…
Hunter’s Journal Cohutta Bear Story Hits Home With Me Dear GON, I always look forward to receiving GON every month. The January Hunter’s Journal story by Robert Nash about his Cohutta WMA black bear hit very close to home. My grandsons, Spencer and D.J. Moore, and I had just arrived on Cohutta the afternoon of…
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The calendar said May 24, but the thermometer said mid-summer. In the words of a country song, “It was hotter than the Fourth of July.” As I have gotten older, and hopefully wiser, serious outdoor undertakings during the heat of the day have become increasingly less attractive. However, the local rivers and creeks had finally…
Evergreen trees aren’t typically considered aquatic vegetation, but if they’re used as Christmas trees in the Savannah River Basin, chances are they’ll continue “bearing fruit” under water. Rather than have old Christmas trees go to the landfill, rangers with the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers reservoirs at Hartwell and J. Strom Thurmond (Clarks Hill)…
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