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TWRA new list of duties

TWRA: Trackin’ bears, whacking alligators, and annoying the poor for-profit fisherman, who think PCB’s just add a lil’ extra flavor.
Actually, the commercial fishermen’s groups say new restrictions are invalid on a number of grounds, including that the agency held the proposal “in secret” until the eve of its passage by the state board that oversees [...]

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Kill Bill on the Hill

There’s a piece of bad legislation quietly floating around the state legislature: and I nearly missed it. Apparently, Rep. Sherry Jones [D - Nashville] and Sen. Beverly Marrero [D - Memphis] have introduced a bill to abolish Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency.
House Bill 2856 creates the division of wildlife resources within the (TDEC) Tennessee department [...]

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Better off with Butterball

According to the Citizen Tribune, two men learned Monday that hunting wild turkey out of season can be expensive.
Approximately one month ago, William Chandler Day of Hawkins County and Heath Bryant of Knoxville were traveling along Fowler’s Grove Road in the Bybee community of Cocke County when they spotted a flock of wild turkeys in [...]

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