Category: Conservation

Feb 05 2014

Conservation, Hunting

Prescribed Fire Awareness: How Fire Helps Wildlife and Habitat

by Georgia DNR, Wildlife Resources Division

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Information provided by Region VI Game Management Supervisor Chris Baumann and wildlife biologist Bobby Bond Prescribed burning is one of the most efficient practices for land and wildlife management.  Burning...

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Dec 02 2013

Conservation

Mussels Go Fishing

by Georgia DNR, Wildlife Resources Division

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By: Ani Popp, GA DNR Nongame Conservation Section Did you know freshwater mussels have a parasitic life stage? Larval mussels, called glochidia, attach to fish gills, where they stay until...

Nov 06 2013

Conservation, Hunting

Quail Covey Count Update

by Georgia DNR, Wildlife Resources Division

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By: Dallas Ingram, GA DNR Wildlife Biologist – Private Lands Program In the past few weeks of October and into November, several DNR employees and volunteers have been waking up...

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Jul 16 2013

Conservation

A Bat’s First Flight: Recording bats emerging from Georgia’s caves.

by Georgia DNR, Wildlife Resources Division

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By: Trina Morris, GA DNR Wildlife Biologist It’s that time of year again.  The time of year when many kinds of wildlife are giving birth and raising young. Bats are...

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May 30 2013

Conservation

Monitoring Bats on the Hooch

by Georgia DNR, Wildlife Resources Division

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First aquatic Anabat route in Georgia a success By: Trina Morris, DNR Wildlife Biologist After the announcement last spring about the opportunity for volunteers to run Anabat routes across the...

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Apr 25 2013

Conservation

Rx fire season in review: Partnerships, proven skills and pound cake

by Georgia DNR, Wildlife Resources Division

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It has been another successful season for that band of traveling prescribed-fire specialists known as the Georgia Department of Natural Resources’ seasonal fire crew. In four months, we burned 9,882...

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Mar 12 2013

Conservation, Hunting

Ping Pong Balls and Helicopter Help DNR Burn Over 5,000 Acres

by Georgia DNR, Wildlife Resources Division

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What does it take to conduct prescribe burns? For Region IV of Wildlife Resources Division’s Game Management Section, it took a helicopter and some ping pong balls. 4,947 acres were...

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Jan 28 2013

Conservation

Southern Lessons in Prescribed Fire

by Georgia DNR, Wildlife Resources Division

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University of Montana students learn on Georgia burns By Hilary Smith They came from the mountains, where the winter temperature often hovers on the southerly side of zero. They came...

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Sep 26 2012

Conservation

Homage to a Bog

by Georgia DNR, Wildlife Resources Division

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By: Lisa Kruse, Georgia DNR botanist – Nongame Conservation Section When I first walked the Statesboro bog this August, it was home to hundreds of yellow pitcherplants. Their abundant pitchers...

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Sep 05 2012

Conservation

Flat Shoals Plus 136 Years

by Georgia DNR, Wildlife Resources Division

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Full report by: Michael Wolfe, Regional Outreach Coordinator and member of the Board of Directors, North American Native Fishes Association In the summer of 1876, ichthyologist David Starr Jordan and his assistant,...

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