The hunting initiative is necessary, Huwiler said, to preserve the watershed land, ecosystem and plant balance. The streets closest to the water authority's property are Great Hill Road, North Street, McMahon Lane, West Pond Road, Altieri Road and Evergreen Drive. Huwiler said the company is taking precautions and maintaining a large buffer to protect residents and homes near the hunting grounds. The water authority is not charging hunters to participate in the program, and hunters will take home any game killed, Huwiler said.
They will also attend a pre-hunt meeting for a presentation on hunting safety and the company's regulations. Huwiler said 87 hunters have passed the test, and two others are scheduled to take it. The water authority accepted applications in June from interested hunters, who were required to have a state archery permit and then pass an archery proficiency test at the New Haven Raccoon Club in Durham. "You go out there any day and you can see plenty of them," he said. But there should only be about 15 to 20, said John Triana, who works in the wter authority's natural resources department. to 1 p.m.Įstimates say there are about 60 to 80 deer for every square mile on the property. They also cannot hunt within 500 feet of buildings and will only be allowed on the parcel from 4:30 a.m. 8, about 1.2 square miles, or 780 acres, will be available for bowhunting, which will require hunters to wear fluorescent clothing, shoot from temporary tree stands between 8 and 20 feet off the ground, and make no shots exceeding 75 feet. Sites range in size from five to seven acres.From Nov. If you live outside Clayton and Henry counties you can show up on Friday afternoons and hunt any available site. 30236.Ībout 70 hunters will be drawn for each hunt, but some hunts do not fill with hunters. Mail your application to 1693 Freeman Rd., Jonesboro, Ga. Applications can be found at the three CCWA reservoirs - Shamrock, Blalock and J.W. The deadline to apply for the hunts is August 1, and you must be a Clayton or Henry County resident to apply. Several Pope and Young bucks have been taken from the property.
“We open the property to hunters now to maintain the herd.” “We have the herd down pretty good,” said Jep. Those start dates have been set: September 9, 16, 23 and November 4, 11 and 18. Now you can go a whole weekend and only a couple of deer get killed.”Īs a result of the lower deer numbers, the CCWA will host only six bowhunts for the 2005 season.
“The number of deer used to be incredible. “It’s absolutely down,” said Mike Meason of McDonough. Originally it was said we probably wouldn’t be able to reduce the herd with archery only.”Īlthough there’s been no WRD survey that says the population has dropped, CCWA employees say they now see far fewer deer, and bowhunters also say the population is down. “We’re probably down to about 40 deer per square mile. “We put the number of people out there that we did, and we were able to do it (drop the population),” said Jep. A minor drop to 12 hunts took place in 2004, and the number of available hunting sites dropped from 138 to about 70 because of the construction of a new wetland. In 2002 CCWA began hunts on Friday afternoons, and 14 hunts took place. In 2001 hunters from outside the two south Atlanta counties could hunt if the lotteries for the hunts weren’t filled. Only 126 deer were taken that first year, so a more aggressive bow schedule was set from 1997-2001 - 13 hunts per year. Tal has killed three P&Y bucks, two of which came from the CCWA. Tal Roberts, of Jonesboro, arrowed this Pope & Young buck from the CCWA in 2003.
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