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NASHVILLE --- As announced earlier, a computerized hunt drawing system will be used for waterfowl blind sites on Bogota, the new Thorny Cypress Wildlife Management Area in Dyer County and four units of the Chickamauga WMA (Candies Creek, Johnson Bottoms, Rogers Creek, and Yellow Creek). The application will be available from Sept. 8 through midnight (CDT) on Oct. 13, 2010.

NASHVILLE --- Establishing the 2010-11 waterfowl hunting seasons will be a major agenda item at the August 18-19 meeting of the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Commission. The August meeting will be held at the UT West Tennessee Experiment Station in Jackson.

NASHVILLE --- The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency has announced the drawing results have been released for the Wildlife Management Area (WMA) 2010 Big Game Quota Hunts.

 

Sportsmen can go to the TWRA website www.tnwildlife.org under the Hot Topics section to check the status of their hunt application.

NASHVILLE --- The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency is proposing a 60-day season for 2010-11 duck hunting, with one split similar to past years, that would end Jan. 30, 2011 and a 6-duck bag limit. TWRA has also recommended using the maximum number of days allowed for goose hunting seasons under the federal framework.

CROSSVILLE--- The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency will host its third annual District 32 Youth Dove Hunt at the Hiwassee Refuge from noon until sunset on Saturday, Sept. 11.

 

The Hiwassee Refuge in Birchwood is located in the heart of TWRA Region III’s District 32 which consists of Bledsoe, Bradley, Grundy, Hamilton, Marion, McMinn, Meigs, Monroe, Polk, Rhea, Roane, and Sequatchie counties.

NASHVILLE --- Landowners choosing to plant crop fields to vegetation best suited for wildlife under 10 to 15 year contracts in the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) can greatly increase their chances of having their offers accepted by choosing options that benefit wildlife.  

NASHVILLE --- The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency (TWRA) is seeking fields to lease for the upcoming 2010 dove season. The first phase of dove season opens at noon on Wednesday, Sept. 1.

 

Landowners who have interest in leasing their fields should contact the TWRA regional office in their area so that a TWRA official can check their property for a potential field lease. TWRA personnel annually search statewide to find dove fields that have the most potential for public hunting. TWRA began its lease dove field program in the late 1980s and has been very successful in providing quality hunting opportunities for the hunters of Tennessee.

NASHVILLE --- The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency has been notified by the Tennessee Valley Authority that the levee roads at Big Sandy and Camden wildlife management areas will be closed until further notice.

NASHVILLE --- The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency will be one of the sponsors for the inaugural Hunters Run for the Hungry to be held Sept.

NASHVILLE --- Owl’s Hill Nature Sanctuary-A Forever GreenSpace, will be the subject of the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency’s Nature @ Noontime August presentation from 12-1 p.m. on Thursday, August 5. The monthly program resumes after a July break and is held at the TWRA Region II conference room and is located in the Ellington Agricultural Center.