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The Conservation LE Corner is designed to highlight the efforts of Georgia DNR Law Enforcement Division (LED) officers who, among their many duties, protect Georgia’s wildlife, sportsmen and resources from game and fish law violators. Burke County: In December of 2003, DNR Law Enforcement Ranger First Class (RFC) Jeff Billips was checking a hunt-club tract…
The Conservation LE Corner is designed to highlight the efforts of Georgia DNR Law Enforcement Division (LED) officers who, among their many duties, protect Georgia’s wildlife, sportsmen and resources from game and fish law violators. The following information was taken from DNR Law Enforcement reports. Toombs County: On December 8, 2002, DNR Law Enforcement Cpl.…
The sun dipped below the treeline, and it was like someone turned downed the thermostat and turned off the breeze at the same time. That cool air felt good. Here it was mid November, and a frost had yet to coat the ground. Maybe tonight, Jack hoped. Not only had there been spring-like warmth all…
The first brilliant yellow rays of the morning sun hit the tops of the giant oak trees. Not a single cloud blotted the sky, not the faintest hint of a breeze stirred the brown and drying leaves. That morning, November 1, dawned cold and crisp, 28 degrees, and the first frost of the season coated…
The Conservation LE Corner is designed to highlight the efforts of Georgia DNR Law Enforcement Division (LED) officers who, among their many duties, protect Georgia’s wildlife, sportsmen and resources from game and fish law violators. Editorʼs Note: The following information was taken from DNR Law Enforcement reports. Echols County: In the September, 2003 issue of…
Days pass under the comfortable blanket of routine. The mundane stresses seem so important, then in an instant real life hits like a sudden uppercut to the jaw… like the sound of breaking glass and the deafening wail of a burglar alarm. Jack shot straight up in bed. Loud steps pounded down the hallway, then…
The Conservation LE Corner is designed to highlight the efforts of Georgia DNR Law Enforcement Division (LED) officers who, among their many duties, protect Georgia’s wildlife, sportsmen and resources from game and fish law violators. Lowndes County: On March 3, 2003, Cpl. Greg Moody and Ranger First Class (RFC) Tommy Daughtry located cracked corn on…
The sounds outside, the rain and wind and rumble of thunder, could have been a thousand miles away. There was silence under here, except for the repetitive drip of a small rivulet of water that fell through an unseen crevice to the dank floor of the cave. Jack Elliot stood like an outside linebacker set…
The Conservation LE Corner is designed to highlight the efforts of Georgia DNR Law Enforcement Division (LED) officers who, among their many duties, protect Georgia’s wildlife, sportsmen and resources from game and fish law violators. The following information was taken from DNR Law Enforcement reports. Clinch County: On May 19, 2003, DNR Ranger First Class Jason…
Editor’s Note: The following information was taken from DNR Law Enforcement incident reports. On Friday, November 1, 2002 at about 11:30 p.m., Cpl. Jim Bradfield was notified by telephone by the Troup County Sheriff’s Department that Cpl. Brent Railey was working a night-hunting complaint on Hwy 18 at Dennis Smith Road and that he required…