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North American River Otters: Watershed Heroes
By Ashlyn Halseth When most Georgia residents hear the word “otter”, they tend to overlook our native species and focus on the marine mammal, the sea otter or Enhydra lutris. While these fuzzy aquatic carnivores are vital to their ecosystem on the west coast and east...
read moreCamo Coalition Legislative Update
Thank you for your continuing participation in the Camo Coalition network. Your involvement makes legislators and regulators - the folks that set the policies on our wildlife, game, sportfish and natural resources - take notice. Your engagement in the past has made a...
read moreJob Announcement: Facilities Maintenance Technician
Position has been filled. The Georgia Wildlife Federation (GWF), the state’s oldest member-supported conservation organization, seeks a Facilities Maintenance Technician. This part-time (3 day/week) position handles trail and property maintenance, basic facility...
read moreCollege Program Gets a Facelift and Hires New ABAC Coordinator
Covington, GA – GWF has rebranded its college learn-to-hunt program as Academics Afield. Just this past semester deer, dove, squirrel, and waterfowl programs were hosted at ABAC and UGA. Of those participating in the programs, nearly 70 had never hunted previously,...
read moreGeorgia Wildlife Federation Partners with Delta Waterfowl to Expand Hunting Opportunities for College Students
Covington, GA – Georgia Wildlife Federation’s College Learn-to-Hunt Program got off the ground January 2019 with support from the National Shooting Sports Foundation. The program has taken off with our Campus R3 Coordinators (Parker Gerdes [ABAC] and Calvin Ellis...
read moreUniversity Hunting Program Strengthening Family Ties
Bonding with family members can be achieved through many activities, but none come close to those involved with the outdoors. Multiple participants in Georgia Wildlife Federation's College Learn-to-Hunt Program at the University of Georgia were able to find these...
read moreWhat’s Georgia without the Call of the Bobwhite?
My love of the outdoors stems from early morning walks into the woods with my dad as we went to hunt. As I grew older, I would listen to my grandfather and dad talk for hours about the prince of game birds, the bobwhite quail. But even in the 1970s, the familiar...
read moreSupport Georgia Wildlife Federation with Target Circle
GWF is honored and excited to announce that we have been chosen to participate in a special charitable giving campaign, sponsored and funded by Target. And you have the chance to help direct a portion of Target's donation to us! Now through January 5, vote for us...
read moreAsk Your US Representative to Help Bring $27.8M to Georgia
Can you fathom Georgia without quail? or songbirds? A major new study in the journal Science has found widespread declines in bird numbers since 1970. Today, three billion fewer birds fill the skies—a 29 percent decline. Meadowlarks, sparrows, finches, warblers,...
read moreGeorgia Water Coalition’s 2019 Clean 13 Water Heroes
The Georgia Water Coalition's 3rd annual Clean 13 report highlights work to protect Georgia's water accomplished by state and local governments, businesses, industries, non-profit organizations and individuals. From innovative efforts to stem stormwater pollution at...
read moreGeorgia Wildlife Federation’s Public Comments Regarding Twin Pines, LLC Permit Application SAS-2018-00554
September 12, 2019 Ms. Holly Ross U.S. Army Corps of Engineers 1104 North Westover Boulevard, Suite 9 Albany, Georgia, 31707 holly.a.ross@usace.army.mil RE: Comment Letter, Georgia Wildlife Federation Permit Application No. SAS-2018-00554 Twin Pines Site, Charlton...
read moreGeorgia Wildlife Federation Hires Calvin Ellis as New Campus R3 Coordinator for University of Georgia
Covington, GA – Georgia Wildlife Federation’s (GWF) College Learn-to-Hunt Program has been a resounding success after the first semester of having student interns on board. The work of Campus R3 Coordinators at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College (Parker Gerdes) and...
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