Tag: Conservation

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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Jun 08 2012

Conservation

Eagle returning to Paradise

by Georgia DNR, Wildlife Resources Division

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Public invited to June 16 release of rehabilitated raptor Seeing bald eagles at Paradise Public Fishing Area is nothing new. But when Blaine Tyler, an employee at the Georgia Wildlife...

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May 02 2012

Conservation

Bat Conservation Interns Hard at Work

by Georgia DNR, Wildlife Resources Division

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Bronson Curry and Jackie Jeffery are spending their summer studying the northern yellow bat as part of a full-time bat conservation internship with Wildlife Resources Division’s Nongame Conservation Section.  Primarily...

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Mar 28 2012

Conservation, Fishing

Lake Sturgeon Inhabiting Native Waters Again

by Georgia DNR, Wildlife Resources Division

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Thanks to Georgia Department of Natural Resources stocking efforts, lake sturgeon are once again inhabiting their native waters in the Coosa River basin. Wiped out in the 1960s, this prehistoric...

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Mar 22 2012

Conservation

Hellbender ‘Re-discovered’ in Northwest Georgia

by Georgia DNR, Wildlife Resources Division

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Young Hunter Owens of East Ridge, Tenn. got a surprise while fishing for catfish in a stream near Ringgold, Ga., last December. Although Hunter didn’t catch a record-sized catfish, what...

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Feb 28 2012

Law Enforcement

Learn About a Career in Conservation Law Enforcement

by Georgia DNR, Wildlife Resources Division

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Are you a high school student interested in pursuing a career in conservation law enforcement or public safety? If so, please join the Georgia Dept. of Natural Resources and other...

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Oct 31 2011

Law Enforcement

Law Enforcement Training Never Stops

by Georgia DNR, Wildlife Resources Division

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Not many have what it takes to become part of the Law Enforcement Section of the Wildlife Resources Division.  One must complete 18 weeks of law enforcement training just to become...

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