Saving Canby’s Dropwort: A Family Tradition
The endangered Canby’s dropwort offers a prime example of how DNR partners with private landowners to conserve rare plants and other wildlife and habitats.
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Stage Your Own Fall Foliage Show
by Georgia DNR, Wildlife Resources Division
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By Terry W. Johnson, writer of the Backyard Wildlife Connection blog. Featured image: Sassafras in fall color. Photo credit: Terry W. Johnson For those of us who do not live in north...
Sep
26
2012
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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Oct
13
2011
Torching Habitat to Help it
by Georgia DNR, Wildlife Resources Division
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What do blow torches have to do with mountain bogs? Habitat restoration. Mountain bogs are one of the most critically endangered habitats of the Southern Appalachians. A primary threat to...