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News Articles: Wild Georgia

Workers watch the backfires they set with the flamethrowers mounted on their ATVs at Sprewell Bluff during a recent prescribed burn. The land was part of some 10,000 acres of public and private land maintained by fire in the area.

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  • Environment

How The South Fights Fire With Fire, And What The West Can Learn

It was a superb Spring day in the mountains of west Georgia, with bluebird skies and a light breeze through the longleaf pines, when a helicopter rained...

February 03, 2020
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By:
  • Grant Blankenship
Endangered Atlantic Sturgeon grow To 14 feet, 800 pounds during 60-year life span.

Savannah Harbor Expansion Puts Fish, People At Odds

For years, the deepening of the harbor in Savannah has been one of the most eagerly awaited boosts to Georgia’s economy. With a deeper harbor comes more...

April 30, 2019
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By:
  • Drew Dawson

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  • Environment

Why Stone Mountain Isn’t Just A Mountain And Why Coyotes Are Changemakers

GPB’s Wild Georgia series wraps up Monday. Our journalists have been out hiking, climbing, boating -- and reporting. They’ve been bringing you stories...

April 29, 2019
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By:
  • Amy Kiley ,
  • Sophia Saliby ,
  • and 2 more
Georgia Southern students sort through the contents of a shrimp net. This catch is mostly shrimp, but shrimpers often catch sharks, rays, crabs and fish as well.

Shark Research Could Help Ga. Shrimpers

The movie “Jaws” famously shows us a shark’s eye view of swimmers in the water, their legs kicking while the shark prepares to attack. We know that...

April 26, 2019
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By:
  • Emily Jones
Fishing guide Allen Ragsdale holds a shoal bass in the waters of the Flint River. A proposed bill in the Georgia General Assembly would name the shoal bass the "official riverine fish" of Georgia. The fish was caught after much struggle by the reporter.

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  • Politics

On The Flint, A Fight For A Fish

Georgia has a lot of official state “things” – such as the brown thrasher as the state bird, the Cherokee Rose as the state flower and even grits as the state’s prepared food.

April 26, 2019
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By:
  • Stephen Fowler and
  • Stephen Fowler
Wildlife rehabilitator Kim Wright with some of the over 40 animals she is taking care of in the laundry room of her Byron home, including squirrels, top left, and opossums, bottom, right.

Baby Season Is Busy Season For Wildlife Rehabilitators

It’s springtime in Georgia. The weather is warming, gardens are blooming and animals, well, they’re having babies. Lots and lots of babies. Sometimes,...

April 25, 2019
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  • Josephine Bennett
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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By:
  • Grant Blankenship
Emily Jones looked at how sharks see, and Ross Terrell explored Atlanta's tree canopy for GPB's Wild Georgia series.

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  • Environment

GPB Reporters Go Wild With Explorations Of Trees, Sharks And More

From the mountains to the coast to the forest, Georgia is a beautiful place for spending time outdoors. GPB journalists are celebrating that splendor...

April 23, 2019
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By:
  • Amy Kiley ,
  • Virginia Prescott ,
  • and 2 more
Panola Mountain is only accessible by guided tour in order to protect the ecosystem.

Stone Mountain's History Tells Story About Human Impact On Nature

Walking up Stone Mountain, it’s hard not to notice people. They’re mostly hiking, but humans have quarried the mountain, carved into it and completely...

April 23, 2019
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By:
  • Sophia Saliby
Vinod Babu helps lead a bird watch near the Fernbank Museum in Atlanta on March 19, 2016.

Nature's Melody: Birdsong in Atlanta

Birdwatching doesn't require a trip deep into unpopulated forests. There's a wealth of sights and songs even in Georgia's largest city.

April 19, 2019
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By:
  • Sean Powers
Kathryn Kolb with Eco Addendum describes some of the plants in Lionel Beecher Hills Park.

Inside The Fight To Keep Atlanta A 'City In The Forest'

Atlanta’s nicknames cover a variety of unique things about the city, like Empire of the South, the Black Mecca, more notably in music, A-Town. But there...

April 18, 2019
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By:
  • Ross Terrell

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