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11-03-2009, 07:58 PM
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Why gates get closed on WMAs
This used to be a pretty nice food plot. Someone decided it would be better as a race track. Gate closed.
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11-03-2009, 08:04 PM
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Well I know nobody likes signs cluttering up the landscape, but I did some irresponsible things when I was a kid just because I didn't know better and no one told me I couldn't.
Was there any way of knowing it was a WMA?
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11-03-2009, 08:09 PM
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they should be easy to catch. cause no four wheelers allowed maybe the wardens should do more riding and walking. oh yeah they make game cams also and they do have them
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11-03-2009, 08:11 PM
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11-03-2009, 08:16 PM
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11-03-2009, 08:43 PM
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Well those get hard to see after a couple six packs.
 -Just didn't know if there was a way in that didn't have a sign. I'm not trying to excuse someone doing that on property that wasn't theirs.
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11-03-2009, 08:56 PM
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Why don't you start a volunteer wing for the DNR... You could be the WMA Guardian Angels...
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11-04-2009, 09:26 PM
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One word comes to mind Coastie. "Idiot"
dc02. - Whether it was posted or not is really irrelevant. There is right and wrong and whoever done this knew it was wrong and did it anyway. My neighbor doesn’t have a sign in his yard that reads…”This is not your property and you cannot build fires, paint on my house, spin up my grass, or dump furniture on it". It’s because anybody that has enough sense to get out of bed knows you’re not supposed to do those things on someone else’s property. Its because people dont care !
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11-05-2009, 09:45 AM
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well if it makes any difference, looks like it is ready to plant!
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11-06-2009, 05:16 AM
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By the way, this is the small handicap access field on the City of Atlanta tract. I'm sure the handicapped hunters that ordinarily use it will be thrilled to see it next wednesday.
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11-06-2009, 06:02 AM
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The legislators need to fund DNR to the level where we can have appropriate levels of over sight on the WMAs. This way the public can have access and the idiots jailed. We put a bunch of bucks in our sports to get locked out.
This is the typical liberal answer, it could be bad so we'll protect by keeping you away from it. It shows two short comings. Heartless morons that did this to the handicapped area. Legislators failing to support the sportsman by funding adequate oversight. Past time for this nonsense to cease!
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11-06-2009, 07:30 AM
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I wish they would always leave them closed. I would rather walk 5 miles and have peace and quite than to have to deal with idiot roadhunters and those to lazy to hunt.
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11-07-2009, 05:02 PM
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I really figured ya'll would have had em caught by now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 Can I go up there and plant some clover or something that the deer will actually eat in the race track? 
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11-08-2009, 10:07 PM
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11-09-2009, 01:05 AM
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I'm sure that was a case of a few teenagers with 4x4's being young and dumb. I'm not blowing it off, but that's how it happens. It sucks that the actions of a few irresponsible kids can cause other responsible citizens to lose their privileges.
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How many people pick up things in the woods that don't belong to them? http://forum.gon.com/showthread.php?t=34022 http://forum.gon.com/showthread.php?t=438046 -Or on the road? I'm not out to argue, I agree you shouldn't mess with something that isn't yours.
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11-09-2009, 11:39 AM
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the Unfairness of it all
You mean the government is requiring fatsos, to haul in on foot, over fifty pounds of gear, into a WMA.
Then requiring poachers to haul out over twenty pounds of tree stands, the fatsos refused to haul back out.
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11-09-2009, 11:51 AM
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Some of you boys are awful high and mighty.Some of us disabled and handicapped folks sure hope you don't wind up in our situation where your hunting gets to be almost nonexistent due to access issues like closed gates, especially during small game season.
As far as volunteering , the legalities keep that out of the question. If we could get OUR funds out of the general budget and put where they belong, we would have the problems solved.
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11-09-2009, 12:17 PM
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11-09-2009, 12:39 PM
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11-10-2009, 12:21 AM
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I'm not busting on these folks as they may have had permission, they may have been on their own property or they may not have taken the things they found. I don't know. I personally just wouldn't mess with something that wasn't on my property if it wasn't mine. Whether they were the rightful owners(own the land, got permission, etc) isn't clear, but it shows that people nose around. It relates to the subject at hand because we're talking about people messing with things that don't belong to them. Specifically the field being torn up. I guess rather than try to understand why people do what they do and maybe prevent stuff like the field being torn up from happening, I could just say "Ain't that a shame" and walk on.
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11-10-2009, 10:20 AM
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Doesn't supprise me i knew exactly where that was when i saw the pic....my parents land backs up to the powerlines on the atlanta tract.....Lock all the roads down for all I care....it will keep the less motivated people out.
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11-10-2009, 10:41 AM
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if cought should be made to replat it and meny more that needs replanting
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11-10-2009, 07:19 PM
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11-11-2009, 01:50 PM
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Gates have a use between hunts.Some of them should be open during hunts,though.Small game and turkey hunters(this includes me)can carry their game a long way ,but try dragging a big deer that far.The only road on Paulding WMA that has camping space has the gate closed during wet weather.I quit going up there.You can get your stand ,camp,or truck locked in.Had it all happen to me.Several people have advocated,to me,that the Paulding money ought to be spent on a more user-friendly piece of property.I agree.I wonder about the real reason for the county buying 7000 acres of the WMA.It`s landlocked,and the surrounding owners don`t want you accessing it during summer,between hunts,or during hunts if it is raining.They don`t want the roads messed up.The 7k acres will probably be a golf course in the future.You guys that think all gates should be kept shut ain`t got a clue about some of these WMAs.A good example is,suppose that Walmart put up a gate that caused you to walk two miles BEFORE you could start shopping.Good exercise,but think about totin`that 50 lb.bag of Ol`Roy back to the truck,maybe two bags?
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 Carring game out has nothing to do with it..They still wanna hunt just like we do..I just want each and every type of hunter treated the same..If that means leaving the gates shut..So be it...I guess some deer hunters will have to not go hunt..Just like my elder friends I talked about have had to not go coon huntin!
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11-12-2009, 01:31 AM
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11-12-2009, 05:49 AM
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I am 41 and that stinks, But I must have been the only stupid kid on the planet because when I was 13 that would have just been a grass field and I would have done the same thing. I rolled a bunch of girls yards with about 5 members on here so I know I was not the only idiot back in the day
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11-12-2009, 08:26 AM
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I would be willing to bet that the people responsible for the damage did not have a WMA stamp
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11-12-2009, 02:17 PM
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I agree that it stinks. Especially for the handicapped hunters who use the area. But I can't judge, because I'm sure I messed up at least a few peoples hunts on Paulding Forest back in the 80's, when I was exploring the area and trying to learn to hunt.
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11-12-2009, 06:28 PM
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Can`t some guys read?If ALL the gates are shut,there ain`t a place to CAMP.
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11-13-2009, 05:20 AM
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11-18-2009, 01:34 PM
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" it is likely open to foot traffic"
Is this really the case? If so, in how many cases would you have to park on private property before walking around the gate? Guys only an idiot would agree with the behavior depicted at the beginning of this post, however, this is OUR land! To restrict access due to one or two who are abusing the privalige would kinda be like if the state shut down I-75 cause most everybody riding on it is speeding and they just dont have the manpower to stop every speeder! Appears to me in many cases once the hunting seasons are over the gates go up and they become the private preserve of whoever is overseeing them.
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11-18-2009, 02:51 PM
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Well I wont be able to hunt if the gates get locked. I am disabled and cannot walk a long ways to go coon hunting. I am only 23 and I am sure my back will get worse.
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11-18-2009, 04:51 PM
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11-18-2009, 05:04 PM
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In this particular instance, the 10,000 acres of the city of atlanta tract are being closed to preserve the roads and food plots which are being destroyed on a weekly basis. The remaining 15,000 acres and nearly a hundred miles of roads are wide open and will remain open, unless they too get beat up, until late December. I started this thread because of a number of questions that had come up over the past several months as to just why some roads were closed on WMAs. I thought that these pictures could explain just why some areas get gated off. If there were a way to do it, I would love to see all of the roads be open year round, but it just isn't going to happen.
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11-18-2009, 05:25 PM
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Well how it helps me is like this. The gates for my local WMA's are very far from the land I actually coon hunt in the WMA. I drive 15 minutes or so into the WMA to get to the spots I hunt and are huntable for coon. Although I hunt in Mid Ga not there so I am not sure about it up there but it would take me hours to walk to where we hunt and alot of the times we can drive CLOSER to the hounds. I mean I can walk a good little ways thanks to pain killers but we hunt in open hardwood type areas and it takes a little driving from the gates to get to them down here.
Now I do understand some roads being closed on the WMA which is common sense because of wear, but I thought we were talking about the WMA's being gated at the entrance and only open to foot traffic from there. So I must be confused. If a road is closed on the WMA due to wear, OK. The WMA gate shut at the entrance..sucks.
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11-18-2009, 06:18 PM
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The WMA in the picture has plenty of parking within the WMA even when some of the gates are shut. Having the gates closed has never bothered me up there at all. Squirrels aren't that heavy to carry out! The one other WMA nearby that I hunt is similar in that there is easy parking but the roads are closed to vehicles except during deer hunts.
Personally I tend to like having a mix of areas that aren't too hard to get to by car and some where you have to put in the leg power to get to. I'd hate to see all one or all the other. -Dan
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The 10000ac part is the best hunting..It does make a huge difference on the turn outs with the gates closed..Take for instance the fork rd or river rd what ever you call it..With it closed..Pretty much takes away all my clark rd hunting..If its open..I can turn loose toward the river all up and down clark rd and not worry about it..What worries me is them not finding a coon and going down river and getting hit on kelly bridge..If its open..I can cut them off before that happens.. It dont even have a un gated plot on it!!!!!!!! Then take azeala ridge rd or p7 as we call it..Aint no way I'd turn loose a hound up that rd or that direction with it being shut..The dogs will be out of hearing in 2 min..What fun is that?? The plots or grass patches are already torn up now anyhow..Might as well open the gates
As for the rest of the 15000 ac..Its toooooo steep for me even with the gates open
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11-18-2009, 06:47 PM
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OH yeah..P7 is gonna be a lake anyhow..So,I vote to open it and not worry about the grass patches..
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Don't know the situation on the tract in ATL you are referring to. I'm sure its as you say. I was referring to WMA's in general and in general there are issues of limited access and it is OUR land. Without naming any names, I can tell you me and several friends volonteered to help maintain roads on a specific WMA where this is an issue and were dismissed in one conversation. Offered to sign any kind of liabilty waiver that the state would want.
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