By Terry W. Johnson, writer of the Backyard Wildlife Connection blog. Featured image: Muscadine grapes on vine. Photo credit: Terry W. Johnson We will never know how long people have relished the...
The week of the Tallulah Gorge burn proved a busy one statewide for restoring habitats with prescribed fire. Fire management officer Shan Cammack says crews burned more than 5,000 acres,...
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...
After nearly two decades of working with growing-season burns, Alan Isler knows the short- and long-term effects. Isler, a DNR wildlife resource manager and former Georgia Forestry Commission employee, has...
By: Jim Hakala, Wildlife Resources Division Fisheries Biologist A group of angler volunteers, under the direction of the Georgia Department of Natural Resources and US Army Corps of Engineers, were working hard this...
Did you ever think your old Christmas tree could help you catch more bass? Christmas trees can be used to improve near-shore fish habitats, which is why the Marietta Bassmasters installed...