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Oak Ridge Quota Hunts Canceled Due to COVID-19 Risk to Facility Personnel

Oak Ridge Quota Hunts Canceled Due to COVID-19 Risk to Facility Personnel

The U.S. Department of Energy canceled all big game quota hunts scheduled on Oak Ridge Wildlife Management Area due to the coronavirus pandemic. All 12 big game quota hunts scheduled for November 7-8, November 14-15, and December 12-13, 2020 at Oak Ridge Wildlife Management Area are canceled. The cancellation is due to the risk of COVID-19 transmission to Oak Ridge ...

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Chronic Wasting Disease Testing Prompts TWRA to Change Status of 3 Counties

Chronic Wasting Disease Testing Prompts TWRA to Change Status of 3 Counties

Three counties have had their chronic wasting disease status changed due to the confirmation of the disease (CWD) in new areas of southwest Tennessee. Haywood and Chester counties have been reclassified from high-risk counties to CWD-positive counties after deer tested positive in the respective counties. Lauderdale County has been added as a high-risk county after a deer tested positive in ...

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Wildlife Officials to Give Chronic Wasting Disease Update at Gatlinburg Meeting

Wildlife Officials to Give Chronic Wasting Disease Update at Gatlinburg Meeting

Tennessee wildlife officials will gather in Gatlinburg this week for their final meeting of the year, which will include an update on chronic wasting disease affecting the state’s deer population. The Tennessee Fish and Wildlife Commission, the governing body of the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency, will meet Dec. 12-13 at the Edgewater Hotel and Conference Center in Gatlinburg. The committee ...

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Men Guilty of Bear Baiting in Cherokee National Forest Lose Hunting Privileges

Men Guilty of Bear Baiting in Cherokee National Forest Lose Hunting Privileges

Five men have been fined and banned from hunting or entering any national forest as a result of a bear baiting investigation by the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency and USDA Forest Service. Monroe County Wildlife Officers and USDA Forest Service Officers from the Cherokee National Forest have closed a bear baiting case. The Forest Service and Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency ...

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Tennessee Free Hunting Day an Opportunity to Teach or Rediscover Hunting

Tennessee Free Hunting Day Velvet Hunt

Tennessee residents are allowed to hunt without a license on Saturday, which coincides with the opening day of squirrel season as well as being during the August private lands, archery only deer season. Free Hunting Day on August 24, 2019 is an event the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency annually provides in hopes of increasing interest in hunting. Squirrel hunting is ...

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UT, TWRA Offer Public Workshops on Chronic Wasting Disease in Tennessee

UT, TWRA Offer Public Workshops on Chronic Wasting Disease in Tennessee

Chronic Wasting Disease in Tennessee deer is now a reality, and experts with the University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture and Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency will hold public workshops to answer questions about the disease and what deer hunters and others should know. Nearly four-dozen interested hunters and landowners turned out for the first meeting in McNairy County on July ...

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UT Extension Specialists to Present on Hunting, Fishing and Wildlife Topics

UT Extension Specialists to Present on Hunting, Fishing and Wildlife Topics

Registration is open for University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture’s Sportsman’s Field Day. What does a Tennessee sportsman (or woman) need to know about chronic wasting disease or pond management? What about wild turkeys or silver carp? These topics and more will be covered at the University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture’s Sportsman’s Field Day on March 23, 2019. Hosted by ...

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Free Hunting Day Marks State’s First Velvet Buck Hunt, Opening Squirrel Season

Free Hunting Day Marks State's First Velvet Buck Hunt, Opening Squirrel Season

Tennessee residents are allowed to hunt without a license on Saturday, the opening day of squirrel season and the middle day of the new statewide three-day archery private lands only/antlered only deer season. This is the first year for this type of deer season and provides hunters with an opportunity to harvest a buck with velvet-covered antlers. Free Hunting Day, ...

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Learn Outdoors Skills at TWRA Becoming an Outdoors Woman Workshop

Learn Outdoors Skills at TWRA Becoming an Outdoors Woman Workshop

The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency will host the 2017 Becoming an Outdoors Woman (BOW) workshop June 2-4, 2017 in Crossville at the Clyde M. York 4-H Center. The relaxed atmosphere of the BOW workshop is aimed at women, and an opportunity for those 18 or older to learn outdoor skills usually associated with hunting and fishing. However, the workshop provides ...

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