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TWRA Dove Fields
Looking for
a place to dove hunt? Join the expanding crowd as each year more and more
folks compete for shrinking opportunities. It’s hard to introduce kids or
newcomers to the shooting sports when they don’t have a place to hunt.
Each year TWRA sends out a request to lease private acreage from farmers
and landowners for public hunts but the program has not been well
accepted. Very few farmers in this area have embraced the program since
its conception several years ago yet TWRA invites hunters to go to its
website to find both leased and state owned spots.
At midweek TWRA had only one field listed in the area and that was a
12-acre patch of millet in West Sandy WMA at the Old Union location.
Meanwhile, the agency’s new release this week contains the following info:
Hunters can go to
www.tnwildlife.org and find a complete list of public fields
across Tennessee on TWRA’s Wildlife Management Areas, plus dove fields
that TWRA has leased. The web page will include maps of each region with
the dove fields identified, along with additional information about each
field.
The page will be updated as new information becomes available. Hunters who
do not have access to TWRA’s website, contact the TWRA Region I Office for
dove field information. In West Tennessee call 1-800-372-3928 or (731)
423-5725.
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TWRA is
seeking fields to lease for the upcoming 2009 dove season. The first phase
of dove season opens at noon on Tuesday, Sept. 1.
Landowners who have interest in leasing their fields should contact the
TWRA regional office in their area so that a TWRA official can check their
property for a potential field lease. TWRA personnel annually search the
countryside to seek out fields that have large numbers of doves for public
hunting.
Landowners can contact: Region I (West Tennessee) 731-423-5725 or toll
free 1-800-372-3928.
Steve McCadams is a professional hunting and fishing guide here in the Paris Landing
area. He has also contributed many outdoor oriented articles to
various national publications. |
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