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SOCIAL CIRCLE, GA

With only a small percentage of participants ever involved in a incident, hunting repeatedly shows itself as a safe sport.

THOMASVILLE, GA

Get ready shooting enthusiasts! A state-of-the-art sporting facility, the Ranges at Oakfield, today celebrated its grand opening.

SOCIAL CIRCLE, GA

Primitive weapons deer hunting season opens on Oct. 10.

SOCIAL CIRCLE, GA

New Website Features Colonial Coast Birding Trail as First Trail Updated

SOCIAL CIRCLE, GA

Tree stands provide hunters a great way to pursue deer, but did you know that more than half of all hunting incidents are due to falls, or other safety issues, with tree stands?

Social Circle, GA

Dove season is fast approaching—have you taken your hunter education course?

ATLANTA, GA

An Atlanta-based effort to provide and restore needed habitat for butterflies, bees and other pollinators is expanding statewide.

SOCIAL CIRCLE, GA

Garbage is irresistible to a hungry black bear.

SOCIAL CIRCLE, GA

Georgia Hunt and Learn programs provide an educational experience targeted to those with little to no hunting experience, according to the Georgia Department of Natural Resources’ Wildlife Resource

SOCIAL CIRCLE, GA

Searching for a new place to fish? Be sure to start with one of Georgia’s 11 available public fishing areas (PFA).

SOCIAL CIRCLE, GA

In a discovery that didn’t shock scientists, the fungus behind the bat-killing disease called white-nose syndrome has been found in culverts in Georgia’s Piedmont region.

SOCIAL CIRCLE, GA

The Georgia Department of Natural Resources is offering a $1,000 grant to a third-, fourth- or fifth-grade public or private school teacher in the state who demonstrates exceptional energy and inno

Jesup, GA

DNR-OSI acquisition, home to the largest known population of endangered hairy rattleweed, will help conserve at-risk species.

Brunswick, GA

The seasonal return of North Atlantic right whales to the Southeast has started like clockwork.

Social Circle, GA

A group of pilot whales involved in strandings Tuesday that left three of them dead along St. Simons Island was seen offshore Wednesday.

SOCIAL CIRCLE, GA

For shorebirds on Georgia beaches, nesting and rearing chicks requires surviving a gauntlet of threats.

BAINBRIDGE, GA

An endangered bird is receiving emergency help in Georgia following Hurricane Michael, thanks to a timely grant from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation.

MITCHELL GAP, GA

Just east of Manchester, a bumpy woods road of clay, sand and quartzite climbs to where the Pine Mountain ridgeline reaches for the sky before nose-diving into the Flint River.

Calhoun, GA

A busy northwest Georgia bridge and the massive colony of bats that call it home are both better off thanks to recent work that preserved the structure and its wildlife.

Social Circle, GA

The first extensive search for peregrine falcon nests in Georgia this century has confirmed three key things.