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For immediate release: September 11, 2012 Contact: Joy M. Hill, 352-258-3426 Unique public hunting opportunities still available in northeast Florida Permits are still available, until Sept. 28, for those who would like to hunt Relay and Twelve Mile Swamp wildlife management areas (WMA) this year. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) classifies both […]

Contact: Carli Segelson, 772-215-9459 FWC reopens another section of road in Corbett WMA The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) has reopened a section of road within the J.W. Corbett Wildlife Management Area (WMA) in Palm Beach County. Effective immediately, vehicles are permitted on the South Grade from L Camp south to the Tomato […]

For immediate release: September 10, 2012 Media contact: Bob Wattenforf, 850-488-0520 September “Fish Busters’ Bulletin” By Bob Wattendorf Photos available on FWC Flickr site. Go to: http://flic.kr/s/aHsjC4ou1b.   Trophy bass tagging study already revealing This past spring, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) biologists tagged 136 trophy largemouth bass greater than 8 pounds in […]

An 11-year-old Alabama boy used a pistol to kill a wild hog that just may be the biggest pig ever found. Jamison Stone’s father says the hog his son killed weighed a 1,051 pounds and measured 9-feet-4 from the tip of its snout to the base of its tail. Think hams as big as car […]

For immediate release: August 31, 2012 Contact: Joy Hill, 352-258-3426 Public access to Lake Jackson via Road 16 restored Road 16 in the Prairie Lakes Unit of Three Lakes Wildlife Management Area (WMA) will reopen Sept. 1. A half-mile section of the road has been closed since late November 2011 for construction and improvements to […]