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Baab: Enjoy Memorial Day on the lake, but do so responsibly

...favorite lake, which is almost at full pool for the first time in months.Last year, according to the Georgia Department of Natural Resources, there were 118 boating accidents and 12 boating-related fatalities in Georgia. Conservation rangers...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/sports/outdoors/fishing/2013-05-23/baab-enjoy-memor
New priests assigned to Augusta

...Before seminary, Almeter studied to earn a degree in criminal justice and planned for a career with the Georgia Department of Natural Resources as a game warden. After finishing seminary at Mount St. Mary's in Emmitsburg, Md., this spring...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/life/your-faith/2013-05-17/new-priests-assigned-aug
At Georgia parks, enjoy natural beauty -- but religion is optional

...Otherwise I wouldn't be writing this column. Apparently a guest at one of these cabins complained, and the Georgia Department of Natural Resources responded by telling its staffers to remove all its Bibles while the matter was investigated. AFTER WHAT...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/opinion/joe-hotchkiss-columns/2013-05-19/georgia-pa
Mistletoe and A.H. Stephens state parks receive honors

...State Park on Thurmond Lake in Columbia County received the Best Year-Round Programming Award by the Georgia Department of Natural Resources.Mistletoe State Park offered numerous programs during 2012. Their events include Junior Ranger camps...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/metro/2013-03-04/mistletoe-and-ah-stephens-sta
Plans for kayak event stir Savannah River privacy issues

...Benderdinker event, which attracted about 400 paddlers.Festival organizer Kristina Williams received a Georgia Department of Natural Resources permit for the 2012 event, but was advised when she applied for a similar permit this year that Betty's...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/metro/2013-03-27/plans-kayak-event-stir-savann
Fatal shootings among hunters can be reduced by being careful

...22-year-old Nathaniel Stone was first reported in a frantic 911 call at 7:33 p.m., according a Georgia Department of Natural Resources report filed by DNR law enforcement Corporal Mitch Oliver.The young man was shot in the chest by his...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/sports/outdoors/rob-pavey/2012-11-24/fatal-shooting
Augusta marina operator works to get rid of old boats

...an ordinance is needed because the other agencies with legal standing, such as the Coast Guard and the Georgia Department of Natural Resources, have no funding or incentive to take action against boat owners."If the city could pass an ordinance...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/metro/2012-11-26/augusta-marina-operator-works
Across Georgia

...Officials said Rosenbaum's claim led to an investigation by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Georgia Department of Natural Resources and other county and city agencies in Georgia and Florida.Rosenbaum faces up to five years in prison...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/metro/2013-02-15/across-georgia
40 years ago, 2 days of snow topped 14 inches

...Murphey, a state climatologist and chief meteorologist of the Environmental Protection Division of the Georgia Department of Natural Resources, said "a freak combination of a lot of things" had to occur for that amount of snow."The bottom...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/metro/2013-02-08/40-years-ago-2-days-snow-topp
Another boat sinks at Augusta marina

...practice. He and others raised two other boats that sank dockside in June.Ranger Grant Matherly, of the Georgia Department of Natural Resources, said the vessel's owner had not been located by 6:30 p.m. Matherly said heavy rain over the weekend...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/2012-08-13/another-boat-sinks-augusta-marina