Georgia Department of Natural Resources

State of Georgia fishery crew members came over to the hatchery to fin clip a raceway of fish before stocking them in December.

Delayed Harvest season started on the Toccoa River.

Learn about the burgeoning wildlife corridor that stretches from Atlanta’s western suburbs to the Talladega National Forest in Alabama.

The Chattahoochee Forest National Fish Hatchery joined forces with their partners to give 180 Freshman students from Fannin County High School an education on trout.

A netting project conducted by the Georgia DNR done on Brasstown Creek in Towns County Georgia for Sicklefin Redhorse suckers.

A library of educational resources on the West Indian Manatee and special conditions for projects permitted by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Representatives from diverse organizations gathered in Georgia to learn about freshwater mussel systematics, identification, and ecology.

Biologists with a passion for plant conservation recently collaborated with Georgia Public Broadcast to produce a 26-minute video for Georgia Outdoors highlighting some of the work to protect and conserve at-risk plants.

ESA 50th Anniversary: More Important than Ever The Endangered Species Act of 1973 is the nation’s most important, and successful, tool to protect animals and plants at risk of extinction. The act currently covers 1,683 U.S. species and 646 foreign species. It serves as the emergency room for fish...

Higher temperatures, killer droughts, biblical rainstorms, and other climatic events pose an existential danger to the rainbow, brown, and brook trout of the southern Appalachians.

I have always been the outdoorsy type. Whether it be hiking, mountain biking, kayaking or surfing, if it gets me closer to nature, I have probably tried it or plan to. I just can’t get enough of the outdoors. Despite that, there is one outdoor activity I could never have imagined pursuing — hunting.

When GAES biologists Meg and Laci visited a Trillium planting site this spring, they found a pleasant surprise.

What happens to hatchery-raised Lake Sturgeon after release in the Tennessee River?