Saturday, January 3, 2009

Charlie Elliott Wildlife Center

November 9, 2008
Dove Field, Charlie Elliott Wildlife Center

The Charlie Elliott Wildlife Center in Jasper and Newton Counties is a 6400-acre educational and recreational wildlife center managed by the Georiga Department of Natural Resources. In addition to hiking and multi-use trails it offers dove, small game, turkey and deer hunting. Approximately half the area is in old field and pasture, with the pasture being converted to hardwoods. Other habitat types are a rock outcrop, mixed pine/hardwoods, pine stands, and bottomland hardwoods.The site contains 29 ponds as well as beaver swamps and several streams.


37 WMAs in Georgia provide dove hunting opportunities, per DNR, with a daily bag limit per hunter of 15. NAVHDA has a chapter not far from here, and they train at Whispering Pines which offers dove, quail, pheasant and duck hunting.


"There are heartbeats in the wilderness. They share our moments in the mountains, in the swamps, and in and on the waters of our land, wherever we might be. They are the large part of the reason we are there, whether with a camera, gun, fishing rod, or pack sack on." [Charlie Elliott]

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