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Reliving the days when quail hunts were the tradition
By WES MURPHY Leave a CommentThe neighborhood I grew up in during the 1960s had six houses along that side of the road. Two out of those six houses had bird dogs in the back yard. When people talked about bird dogs or bird hunting back then, it was understood that they were talking about quail. Some people called them partridges, but they meant quail as well.
Antler scoring sessions set across South Carolina
Antlers will abound throughout the Palmetto State as the search for new state record deer antlers gets underway during the S.C. Department of Natural Resources' annual series of scoring sessions.
S.C. Wildlife's 26th Annual Outdoor Photo contest accepting entries
South Carolina Wildlife's Twenty-Sixth Annual Outdoor Photography Competition and Print Exhibition is open to anyone interested in photography. The magazine's award-winning photography staff will serve as judges for the contest and winning prints will be displayed at the 2010 Palmetto Sportsmen's Classic to be held March 26-28 at the State Fairgrounds in Columbia. There is no entry fee for the contest.
The Trustee Council for the Lake Hartwell PCB settlement, which includes Georgia Department of Natural Resources, S.C. Department of Natural Resources, S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control, South Carolina Governors Office, United States Army Corps of Engineers and the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, recently requested public input on how to spend the remaining Lake Hartwell PCB settlement funds from the Schlumberger Technology Corporation.
The use of prescribed fire as a land management tool has deep and ancient roots in South Carolina's heritage, but conducting prescribed burns is becoming increasingly challenging because of a variety of factors, according to Johnny Stowe, S.C. Department of Natural Resources representative to the South Carolina Prescribed Fire Council.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The South Carolina Natural Resources Department has closed a public boat ramp in Kershaw County because of flooding on the Wateree River.
On a Sunday morning last spring, Nita Inabinet glanced out her bedroom window and called to her husband: “Fred, I believe I see a coyote in the back yard!”
STUART, Fla. (AP) — There was blood was in the water, the sharks were circling and a grievously hurt Stephen Schafer — his thigh gashed and his hand mauled — was screaming in pain by the time the lifeguard reached him.
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — More than 200 people are meeting in a South Carolina coastal city for a conference focusing on the future of land use in the state.
South Carolina Fishing Reports
Saltwater Report
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Freshwater Report
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S.C. Fishing Regulations
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