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July 12, 2026

Double-crested cormorants can be hunted on the Santee Cooper lakes from Feb. 2 through March 31 with the proper training and permitting.

SCDNR adds third training session for Santee Cooper cormorant season

The S.C. Department of Natural Resources (DNR) has added another training session to qualify interested persons for the legal taking of double-crested cormorants from the Santee Cooper lakes. […]

Floating a river or large creek can put a hunter in range of some wonderful duck hunting.

Floating can be a trip

Phillip Gentry

Although float trips have no season, the period from Thanksgiving through the end of the year is the perfect time to plan a trip with a buddy, put the kayak in the back of the truck and float a stretch of moving water. […]

Plan your duck-hunting season so you don’t overpressure any areas; that will ensuring good hunting in future seasons.

Plan your duck season

Jeff Burleson

Thanksgiving weekend closed out the short, teaser sessions that primed the valves and got every waterfowl hunter excited about bagging a limit of ducks in the Carolinas’ flooded country. […]

The Ruffed Grouse Society is asking the U.S. Forest Service to consider changing its wildlife-unfriendly policy on not cutting timber in Pisgah and Nantahala national forests.

Ruffed Grouse Society wants U.S. Forest Service to change timber-management practices

Craig Holt

With the U.S. Forest Service offering a window for public comments to its Nantahala/Pisgah Forest Plan Revision, the Ruffed Grouse Society of North Carolina is asking for help in persuading the agency to make a sea change in how it manages a million acres of public land in western North Carolina. […]

Jon Pruitt of Starr killed this huge Anderson County buck over a period of four days.

After four days, Anderson County hunter finally puts hands on big buck

Phillip Gentry

Anderson County, known for its capacity to produce trophy deer, did exactly that on Thanksgiving Day for Jon Pruitt of Starr in the form a 160-inch buck – but it was a long four days before finished the job. […]

Jennings Davis killed this huge Wilson County buck on Nov. 14 as it fed in a harvested sweet potato field.

Lucama man kills enormous Wilson County buck

Dan Kibler

North Carolina’s coastal plain doesn’t produce many enormous trophy bucks, but it certainly did three weeks ago, when Jennings Davis of Lucama in Wilson County celebrated his 75th birthday a week early by killing a tremendous buck on Nov. 14. […]

Double-crested cormorants will really be an "endangered species" when sportsmen are allowed to hunt them around the Santee Cooper lakes after waterfowl season ends.

SCDNR schedules training sessions for potential cormorant hunters

Pat Robertson

The S.C. Department of Natural Resources has announced two training sessions in January and February for anyone interested in participating in a hunting season that will be held to try to diminish the impact of double-crested cormorants on forage fish and other natural resources in the Santee Cooper area. […]