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Red knots eating horseshoe crab eggs Credit: Fletcher Smith/DNR

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  • Environment

Report highlights Georgia wildlife conservation efforts

For drivers with a wildlife license plate and other donors, this report shows where the money went.

February 14, 2025
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  • Mary Landers
Person hunting in a Capitol Beat photo.

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  • News

Georgia entering vacation season short of game wardens

With the traditional summer vacation season getting underway, Georgia continues to suffer from a chronic shortage of game wardens to serve its 2 million hunters and 600,000 to 700,000 anglers.

May 28, 2024
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By:
  • Dave Williams
The alligator Hall County Sheriff's Office police found in a pond.

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  • Environment

Hall County Sheriff’s Office finds alligator in pond

A Hall County Sheriff’s Office deputy came across an adult alligator near a pond at Allen Creek Road.

March 07, 2024
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  • Ambria Burton
This photo provided by the Georgia Department of Natural Resources shows Joel Fleming holding a flathead catfish on Monday, Sept. 25, 2023, at the department fisheries regional office in Richmond Hill, Ga.

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  • News

An invasive catfish predator is eating its way into another Georgia river, wildlife officials warn

State officials warn that flathead catfish are invading another Georgia river, sparking fears that the predator will threaten native fish included the prized redbreast sunfish.

September 28, 2023
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  • Associated Press
A boat passes along Lake Lanier, April 23, 2013, in Buford, Ga. Fashion designer Tameka Foster, the ex-wife of R&B singer Usher, is calling to drain Lake Lanier, Georgia's largest lake, where her son was fatally injured 11 years ago. Kile Glover, her 11-year-old son with Bounce TV chairman Ryan Glover, died in July 2012 after a personal watercraft struck the boy as he floated in an inner tube on the lake.

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  • News

Usher's ex-wife wants to drain Georgia's largest lake, where a boater fatally struck her son

The ex-wife of R&B singer Usher wants to drain Georgia's largest lake. Fashion designer Tameka Foster's son was fatally injured on Lake Lanier a decade ago.

July 14, 2023
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  • Associated Press
Pink lady's slipper orchid

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  • Environment

Over 1,000 Georgia pink lady's slipper orchids thrive after relocation

In early 2022, more than 1,000 pink lady's slipper orchids were moved from along Ga. Highway 400 to other locations in Alpharetta. But it wasn't as simple as just digging up the protected species.

June 06, 2023
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  • Ambria Burton
A room of people sitting at desks

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  • News

State agencies slow to reopen public meetings to in-person access; DNR reverts to pre-pandemic ways

It takes around four hours by car to go from Savannah to Atlanta — not an easy trip to make in time for a 9 a.m. weekday meeting of the state Board of Natural Resources.

June 05, 2023
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  • Chaya Tong
Snake

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  • Animals

Georgia DNR’s warning to residents: Here’s what to do (and not do) if you see a snake.

Georgia has 47 different species of snakes. Here’s what to do when you see one.

April 26, 2023
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By:
  • Chelsea Madden
The Georgia DNR is working to assess and eradicate a wild population of Argentine black and white tegus in Toombs and Tattnall counties in southeast Georgia.

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  • Animals

Georgia wildlife agency seeking reports of invasive lizards

Georgia's wildlife agency is asking residents to report sightings of an invasive lizard that can pose a threat to native species. The Department of Natural Resources is trying to locate and remove South American tegus from Georgia before the lizards can thrive in greater numbers.

April 11, 2022
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  • Associated Press
Fisherman holding Sturgeon

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  • Environment

'Prehistoric' fish doubles in size since last capture in 2005

A sturgeon tagged and released 16 years ago was recaptured last week in northwestern Georgia, and state officials say it more than doubled in size in that time.

November 08, 2021
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By:
  • Mark Rice
fisherman on a boat

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  • Sports

Georgia To Offer A Pair Of Free Fishing Days This Month

Georgians can fish without a license on June 5 and 12 in honor of National Fishing and Boating Week.

June 01, 2021
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By:
  • Emily Jones
a woman cleans zebra mussels off a boat

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  • Environment

GA Wildlife Officials Warn Against Invasive Zebra Mussels

So far, the invasive zebra mussels species aren't known to exist in Georgia waters. But the state just had a near-miss.

April 26, 2021
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By:
  • Emily Jones
A monarch butterfly on butterfly weed

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  • Science

Researchers Look For Monarch Butterflies Wintering In Georgia

The Department of Natural Resources is asking for the public's help spotting monarch butterflies spending the winter in Georgia.

December 22, 2020
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By:
  • Emily Jones
Fisherman Tim Trone poses with his record blue catfish, which takes up most of a pickup truck's tailgate.

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  • Sports

'Monster' Catfish Shatters State Record

A fisherman from Florida has caught a blue catfish that beats the previous Georgia state record by more than 17 pounds.

October 21, 2020
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By:
  • Emily Jones
Gov. Brian Kemp shared this aerial photo in a tweet Saturday, saying most beachgoers were locals. But Tybee officials say with beaches reopened, they're now getting visitors from out of state.

Tybee Mayor Urges Governor To Close Beaches, Visitors To Stay Away

Coastal leaders are pushing back after the governor ordered Georgia beaches reopened Friday night.

April 06, 2020
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By:
  • Emily Jones
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