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News Articles: Hunting

An adult male whitetail deer

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Sandy Springs lacks authority to ban bow hunting

The Sandy Springs City Council learned that municipalities cannot regulate bow hunting despite pleas from residents who complained about trespassing hunters and fears for their children and pets.

December 27, 2022
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By:
  • Bob Pepalis
Working Dogs for Conservation trainer Michele Vasquez clips a vest onto Charlie, a Labrador retriever, to let him know he's working. Dogs like Charlie will help sniff out chronic wasting disease in deer and elk scat. They will also help find mink and otter droppings that can be tested for toxic substances near illegal dumpsites.

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Dogs are sniffing out disease in animals vital to traditions of the Blackfeet tribe

Montana's Blackfeet Nation is experimenting with a new way to detect chronic wasting disease in animals and toxic substances in plants used by tribal members for food and cultural practices.

June 29, 2022
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  • Aaron Bolton
Mythbusting Opossum Facts | Backyard Nature: asset-mezzanine-16x9

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Raccoons, opossums could face year-round hunting season

Lawmakers are one General Assembly vote away from making raccoons and opossums fair game year-round.

March 11, 2022
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  • Riley Bunch
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Protections for gray wolves restored across much of the U.S.

The ruling by a U.S. district judge puts a spotlight on a species whose recovery from near-extinction has been heralded as a historic conservation success.

February 10, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
In 2015, Trapper Dan Eaton prepares to release a female coyote, wearing a GPS tracking collar, after working with scientists to include her in a three year study of coyotes in the Deep South.

Seeing Coyotes Everywhere? New Science Explains Why

Three years ago, a coyote with ice blue eyes lay stock still as scientists took her blood, weighed her, and fixed a GPS collar around her neck on a dirt...

January 08, 2020
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By:
  • Grant Blankenship
Then UGA graduate student Mike Hooker takes samples in 2013 from a bear killed in the one day middle Georgia bear hunt. The study Hooker worked on established limits on how many of the 400 or so mile Georgia bears could be killed every year.

Only One Bear Taken In One-Day Middle Georgia Hunt

Georgia has bears in the mountains to the north and in the swamps in the south, but there’s also a small population in the middle of the state, about...

December 27, 2019
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By:
  • Grant Blankenship
Regulators are now considering wood ducks and other species prevalent in Georgia in addition to mallards when they set the hunting season.

Waterfowl Hunting Season Brings Changes

Waterfowl hunting season opened in Georgia over the weekend, bringing with it some changes.

November 25, 2019
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By:
  • Emily Jones
A female coyote caught and measured near Augusta for a study of coyotes in the South leaps as it is released in 2015.

As Coyotes Change The South, The South Is Changing Them

It's taken about a hundred years for coyotes to move in and fully saturate every corner of the South. As coyotes settled in, they began putting predator...

April 25, 2019
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  • Grant Blankenship
Edwin Pierre-Lewis, a graduate student at the University of Georgia, uses a buck call as he hunts deer west of Athens. He learned to hunt as part of the Field to Fork program and has become a mentor, now teaching others how to hunt.

Turning To 'Locavores' To Train New Hunters

There's no shortage of deer in the wild and semi-wild places in Georgia. But as time marches on, the people that hunt deer are growing increasingly rare...

January 04, 2019
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By:
  • Samantha Max
Deer

Deer Hunters Feed Georgia Families In Need

Georgia deer hunters are helping to feed families in need. The Georgia Wildlife Federation’s Hunters for the Hungry program contracts with meat...

November 21, 2018
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By:
  • Cindy Hill

On Second Thought For Wednesday, October 25, 2017

A special hour about guns in the South: the people who own them, the emotions they stir, how they’re bought and sold, the total cost of gun violence,...

October 25, 2017
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  • Celeste Headlee ,
  • Emily Cureton ,
  • and 3 more
Van Mixon in a deer stand.

A Family Tradition: 'Hunting Isn't Shooting'

Georgia’s hunting season for firearms opened October 21. GPB’s Emily Cureton joined a father and son hunting deer together opening weekend. She sends us...

October 25, 2017
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  • Emily Cureton
Georgia is promoting a plan to stage a coyote-killing contest in metro Atlanta.

Critics Challenge Coyote-Killing Contest In Georgia

Critics are complaining about the state of Georgia's plan to stage a coyote-killing contest in metro Atlanta. The Georgia Department of Natural...

February 21, 2017
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  • Associated Press

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