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George Busbee
Governor
Joe D. Tanner
Commissioner
BOARD OF NATURAL RESOURCES
Wade H. Coleman
Chairman Valdosta-- State-at-Large
Donald J. Carter Vice Chairman
-- Gainesville 9th District
Leo T. Barber, Jr. Secretary
Moultrie-- 2nd District James F. Darby
Vidalia-- 1st District
Dr. Robert A. Collins, Jr. Americus-- 3rd District George P. Dillard Decatur-- 4th District
Mary Bailey Izard Atlanta-- 5th District
James A. Mankin Griffin-- 6th District Lloyd L. Summer, Jr.
Rome-- 7th District
J. Wimbric Walker
McRae-- 8th District Walter W. Eaves
Elberton-- 10th District
Sam Cofer
St. Simons Island Coastal District Leonard E. Foote Waleska-- State-at-Large James D. Cone Decatur-- State-at-Large A. Leo Lanmon, Jr. Ros well-- State-at-Large
DIVISION DIRECTORS
Parks and Historic Sites Division Henry D. Struble, Director
Game and Fish Division
Jack Crockford, Director
Environmental Protection Division J. Leonard Ledbetter, Director
Geologic and Water Resources Division Sam M. Pickering, Jr., Director
Office of Information and Education David Cranshaw, Director
Office of Planning and Research J. Clayton Fisher, Jr., Director
Office of Administrative Services James H. Pittman, Director

OutdOOrS it? Georgia

Volume 6

February 1977

Number 2

FEATURES

Gold!

Susan K. Wood 2

Saltwater Records
Latter-day Quail Wagons

Jingle Davis 6
Aaron Pass 12

Requiem for a King Chasing the Hounds

James R. Darnell 17
Bill Hammack 18

Winter!

Photo Essay 23

Laura S. Walker State Park . . Rebecca N. Marshall 26

1977 Tide Tables

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DEPARTMENTS

Letters to the Editor

33

ON THE COVER: Snow blankets North Georgia's mountains, creating a winter won-
derland. Photo by Bob Busby.

Aaron Pass Rebecca N. Marshall Dick Davis Bill Hammack Jingle Davis
Susan K. Wood

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Outdoors in Georgia is the official monthly magazine of the Georgia Department of Natural Resources, published at the Department's offices, Room 714, 270 Washington Street, Atlanta, Georgia 30334. No advertising accepted. Subscriptions are $3 for one year or $6 for three years. Printed by Williams Printing Company, Atlanta, Georgia. Articles and photographs may be reprinted when proper credit given. Contributions are welcome, but the editors assume no responsibility or liability for loss or damage of articles, photographs, or illustra-
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Editorial

Conservation

i f there is one thing the abundance of cold weather along with the shortage of natural gas should impress upon us, it is that conservation
must become an ingrained way of life ... a
working part of our individual and collective vocabulary. The time is past for lip service to
conservation as an ideal. It is imperative that we buckle down and make it a reachable goal, an
objective to be achieved in the fundamental in-
terest of conservation.
Obviously there are things we can do right now: turn down thermostats, drive less than usual and wash clothes only when the machine is full are among the several suggestions advanced
which will help us conserve existing energy resources. Beyond that, it is likely that the federal government will need to de-regulate the price of natural gas so that private enterprise will be en-
couraged to find new sources of natural gas and
other necessary energy resources. There is little doubt that governmental de-regulation will result in rising costs to the consumer, but that is what will offer the necessary incentive for exploration by oil and gas companies.
In the long run, conservation of existing en-
ergy resources is hardly more than a stop-gap measure. These resources are non-renewable. They can be exhausted. They probably will be. The solution lies ultimately in developing alter-

native energy sources, such as solar or nuclear power.
Our state, as a matter of fact, is taking posi-
tive steps to encourage development of alternative energy sources. There is a concerted effort, for instance, to bring the National Solar Energy Research Institute to Georgia. In Atlanta the
George A. Towns Elementary School is one of
the few public places in the nation that is heated and cooled by solar energy. Solar homes are
being constructed in many parts of Georgia and
throughout the Sunbelt. Additionally, there are laws designed to en-
courage use of solar energy. These proposed incentives would exempt solar energy systems from sales and use taxes and would permit local governing authorities to exempt residential and commercial solar systems from property taxes.
To help alleviate Georgia's energy crisis, Gov-
ernor Busbee is asking local governing authorities to adopt these incentives.
There is not enough energy for us to continue doing things the way we have been doing them.
After all, factories are closing, people are out of work, because of the present energy shortage.
Scientists claim that if we continue using energy at our present rate, we will use as much in the next 25 years as we have in all of recorded his-
tory. Now is our last chance to change our ways.

February 1977

By Susan K. Wood Art by Mike Nunn

Gold! Its mere mention once turned friend
against friend, caused law-abiding citizens to
abandon society's canons, made temperate men
suddenly savage and caused fortune hunters to
roam unknown lands in wild-eyed greed. And
here in Georgia, some twenty years before California's gold rush, Benjamin Parks
stumped^ his toe on a big, shiny yellow rock, no doubt cu^ed a little, then halted in his tracks. That rock, it turned out, was

solid gold.
And as Parks later reported, 'The news
got abroad, and such excitement you never j'
saw. \t seemed within a few days, as if the
whole world must have heard of it; for men
came from every state! had ever heard of. I They came a'foot, on horseback, and in wagons, acting more like crazy men than

anything else."

Suddenly Auraria, Americas first gold

rush town, was booming. Would-be miners

swarmed to a ridge bdtfween two gold-bearing

rivers,

and

by " ...

1833

there

were

one'

hundred dwellings, eighteen or twenty stores,

twelve or fifteen law offices, four or five taverns
and a newspaper," one miner wrote. Now only

-- Woody's Grocery and a few dilapidated struc-
tures remain once booming Auraria is all but

a ghost town.
Today at the Dahlonega Courthouse Gold
Museum, visitors can feel some of the excitement these go-for-broke miners must have felt
during America's first gold rush here in North Georgia. If you feel lucky, try panning for your

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February 1977

own fortune in gold in nearby streams. Or just be content to hear Mary McGonagle, museum
curator, tell stories of the struggles for Georgia's
gold.
.The brick museum on the square in Dahlonega dates from 1836 when it was built to serve as Lumpkin County's courthouse. The boom-
ing gold rush settlements here surely needed
some law and order in the early 1830s. As one Auraria miner described his now-quiet community, "I can hardly conceive of a more unmoral community than exists around these mines; drunkenness, gambling, fighting, lewdness and
every other vice exists here to an awful extent." But because of land disputes in Auraria, the
courthouse was erected six miles away, and the town of Dahlonega, soon to eclipse Auraria, was founded. Legend has it that the courthouse
-- truly has its foundation in justice a Bible lies
under each corner. And once the imposing
courthouse was completed and its builder Ephraim Clayton paid in gold bullion, some of the area's disputed land claims were officially set-
tled. But you can be sure that many others were
settled out of court with fists or guns.
The courthouse served its purpose until 1965 when it was given to the state to serve as a museum of a by-gone era. If you look closely, you'll find flecks of gold in the mortar and red brick, made down on Cane Creek. Inside the museum, samples of gold mined in the area just might put
ideas into your head. It's gorgeous stuff, that gold dust, those shiny, golden nuggets. It's the stuff of which dreams are made.
With their heads full of dreams, avaricious miners invaded North Georgia, with not a
thought of the Indians who owned the land. The
Cherokee nation, you see, lived on the very land where Benjamin Parks stumped his toe on gold. Dahlonega, in fact, got its name from the Cherokee word "talonega" meaning precious yellow. The state had already begun proceedings to
move the Indians from the lands the white men coveted, but discovery of gold made immediate
action mandatory. Georgia's gold and white men's greed resulted in the removal of 14,000 Cherokees from Georgia in the winter of 1 838-9. Forced to leave their homes and most of their possessions to head west through ice and snow, some 4,500 Cherokees, mostly the very young and the elderly, died on this "Trail of Tears."

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The miners, though, cared little of the wrath and destruction and turmoil they caused. Nothing mattered to them but their shiny yellow gold. Gold fever had brought 10,000 or so fortune hunters to Dahlonega and Auraria. But mining
was no easy task, by any means. Much early
mining involved tedious panning, but as the museum's exhibits show, open cut mining, hydraulic mining and the use of dredge boats soon
made large-scale mining easier.
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How much gold was actually mined in the
Lumpkin County area, no one knows. Roughly $700 per day is said to have been coined at Templeton Reid's independent mining operation in Gainesville, and $1,763,900 of Georgia gold was coined at the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia before 1838. So much gold was found in Georgia that a U.S. Branch Mint was built in 1838 in Dahlonega. Until 1861 when the mint closed, some $6 million in coins was minted here.
February 1977

By 1 849 gold finds in North Georgia had become sporadic, but miners were encouraged by word of gold for the taking somewhere out west. Once more, hearty gold-diggers moved on to

seek their fortunes, and Templeton Reid moved

his minting operation to California. Matthew

F. Stephenson, assayer of Dahlonega's Mint,

entreated the fickle miners to stay. Pointing to a nearby ridge, he shouted, 'There's millions in
it!" The doctor's words were later embellished by Mark Twain when he wrote, "Thar's gold in them thar hills!"

The miners left Georgia anyway, leaving Au-

raria to lapse into obscurity. But gold was never

forgotten around here. In 1 896 when an official

state report indicated that much of Georgia's

gold remained unmined, mining companies

sprouted again. The largest, The Consolidated Mining Company, sold over $5 million in stock
but six years later auctioned property and mines at a bankruptcy sale for $27,000.

In recent years, several mines have reopened
with new owners trying their hand at both old and newer mining methods to seek their for-

tunes. In 1970, one mine was reopened, but no
one knows how much gold has been mined there.
Everyone hopes for that one-in-a-million chance

of striking it rich, but the dreamers who visit Dahlonega should remember that some states have produced more gold in one year than Geor-

gia has seen since 1828.

Tales of the life and toils of Georgia miners

are told at the Dahlonega Courthouse Gold Museum which offers a glimpse of a Georgia many never knew existed. Visitors learn the rags-toriches story of Rowdy Harrison Riley, see the
museum's heart-of-pine moldings, pegged floors and walls and the 2,500 pound safe used in the

courthouse from 1886 to 1965. Learn the tech-

niques of mining here. Or see a map of the area's

mines including the one Ulysses S. Grant sold to Samuel J. Tilden and the one bought by John C. Calhoun for $10,000 only to be worth one-

tenth of the purchase price.

The museum is open from 9 to 5 Tuesday

through Saturday and on Sunday from 2 until
5:30. On the square in a sleepy, quaint town
with more than its small town's share of gift and

antique shops, restaurants and emporiums, and

but one stop light, the Dahlonega Courthouse

Gold Museum is a treasure in itself.

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Saltwater
Records
By Jingle Davis Photography by Jim Couch

Fishermen, oil your reels and tidy up your tackle boxes. There's a good chance a world record game fish will be caught in Georgia's coastal waters in the near
future.
This prediction comes from Larry D. Smith, who
keeps track of Georgia's record-setting fish as part of his
duties as DNR's Sport Fisheries Program chief. "We already have a state record hammerhead shark
larger than the existing world record hammerhead,*'
Smith said. "Unfortunately, our hammerhead was re-
corded before the IGFA (International Game Fishing
Association) recognized that particular shark as a game
fish, so ours didn't make the IGFA world record list."
IGFA's current world record hammerhead for all tackle is 703 pounds, while the Georgia record is 770 pounds.
As far as world records are concerned, Smith thinks
Georgia fishermen will have even better odds of setting
new ones in the coming years.

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"I think IGFA will soon be recognizing more shark
species as game fish, and Georgia waters have an abun-
dant shark population," he said.
Another plus factor for Georgia anglers is DNR's arti-
ficial reef project, a program which has established five coastal fishing reefs offshore in the past few years. Three
more reefs are now in the works. Duane Harris, in
charge of the project, explained that the bare sand bot-
tom off Georgia's coast provided almost no suitable natural habitat for game fish such as snapper, grouper, king and Spanish mackerel, sailfish and barracuda. In order to catch those fish, anglers usually had to make the long trip out to Sapelo live bottom, the snapper banks or
the Gulf Stream.
-- But the new reefs lying at distances of eight to 25 -- miles offshore are causing the picture to change. State
record bluefish, cobia, jack crevalle, king mackerel, thresher shark, blackfin tuna, gray triggcrfish and greater amberjack were all caught at artificial reef sites.
Although DNR's state record program is only a few years old, there are more than a few impressive lunkers
on the list already.
For example, Chuck Hall's tiger shark, caught in St. Simons channel in 1975. Hall fought the 794 pound monster for over four hours before bringing it up to the boat, then discovered there's no graceful way to fit a 12'/2 foot shark into a 20 foot boat. So, Chuck towed the fish to shore. "Every time it wiggled, it pulled the transom underwater," he said later.
Even novices to saltwater have a chance at the big
ones. Tommy Hall of Waycross brought in a record

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spotted sea trout this summer, and anglers who've spent a lifetime stalking the wily trout are still muttering about
that particular prize winner. Tommy caught his 9 pound,
7 ounce trout on his second coastal fishing trip.
One young Brunswick man, Allen Woods, has the dis-
--tinction of holding three state saltwater game fish records for bluefish, grouper and king mackerel. Although he attributes his success to "a lot of luck,"
Woods also puts a lot of time, effort, money and thought
into his fishing.
A member of one of the most active clubs on the
coast, the Golden Isles Sportfishing Club, Woods fishes the offshore reef year-round. He keeps a detailed notebook of each trip, logging such data as the names of his
fishing companions, what each person caught, what bait was used, and any other fish spotted, unusual sitings, sea conditions and so on. That may seem to be a lot of
trouble, but Woods has three state records to prove his
method works. He is a vocal advocate of the artificial reef program
and not surprisingly, since two of his three state record
fish were caught at reef sites. He still isn't sure where he
February 1977

-- caught his state-record grouper his compass was off
that day, and he's never again been able to locate that particular stretch of ocean.
He'd like to see additional reefs built out to about 40 miles. One reason for this, he said, is the fact that the reefs closer to shore are sometimes crowded with fishing
boats.
"One day last year at 'G' Reef (off Jekyll Island),
there were 17 boats trolling. Fourteen were circling the reef clockwise, but three oddballs insisted on trolling the other way," he said.
In addition to fascinating stories recounted by the record-holding fishermen, the records list itself makes
interesting reading, especially if one looks for common
denominators, such as where the big fish are caught and the times of year they bite.
Most coastal fishermen swear the best season for spotted sea trout and several other inshore species is during cool autumn months. In terms of numbers, they may be right, but the Georgia list shows that not a single state record fish was caught in October, November or December. The majority of record-holders were landed during the summer months.
As to where the big ones are caught, the statistics may be deceiving. Although Chatham County is the most
populous coastal area in Georgia, only two existing record fish have been brought in there, while 25 existing
state records came from the waters of Glynn and Cam-
den Counties.
"I don't think that's a true indication of fish popula-
tions, though," Larry Smith said. "Our state records program is based in Brunswick, and it may be that people in this area are more aware of and take a greater interest in the program."
Nor does it seem reasonable to assume that more people are fishing the south Georgia coast, as more than half the licensed bait dealers operate in Chatham County.
Even in the Brunswick-Glynn County area, there are people who haven't heard of the state records program.
A few months ago, St. Simons Island resident Tom San-
born caught a giant flounder, took it home, cleaned it and put it on ice.
"Even with the head and tail cut off, it barely fit in the freezer," Sanborn said. More or less on impulse, he
-- brought the fish over to DNR's Game and Fish office in
Brunswick, where even minus head, tail and innards
the flounder weighed in at 1 1 V2 pounds. Since the state record flounder weighed 10 pounds, there's no real doubt that Sanborn's fish would have topped the record by a considerable amount. But, since Sanborn didn't have his fish weighed at an official weighing station before he cleaned it, his flounder wasn't eligible. "I'll probably never catch another one that size," he groans.
Larry Smith is well aware that the state records pro-
gram could use more publicity. "We're now in the
process of staffing up, which should help considerably,"
he said. "We need to get more information out to the
public and to weighmasters. I'd also like to see more official weighing stations set up on the coast." Smith

plans to start sending regular bulletins to fishermen who

hold current state records. "I imagine some of these

people are not aware that they still hold state records,"

he said.

As a fisherman, Smith is understandably concerned that the person who catches the biggest fish gets appro-

priate credit. But as a biologist, he is more interested in

the scientific data to be gleaned from the saltwater game

fishing records.

"We're beginning to develop a feeling for the sizes of various game fish species along our coast," he explained.

"Before we had a state records program, we could only

speculate."

This is important, Smith added, in determining the

extent of the resource. "In order to design an effective

management program, we have to know what we're

We working with.

need to be able to define problems, as

well. Once this is done, then we can make realistic plans

for the future."

Smith said that while Georgia seems to have a healthy population of saltwater game fish at present, no one

really knows what will happen in coming years.

"So far, we've had management by crisis. Little long-

range research has taken place. We're about 20 years behind in fisheries management, and now is the time to learn all we can."

Why do game fish need to be managed? Smith has a good answer for that question. "A lot of coastal fish are
now considered only as game fish, but they also have

commercial potential. I think we'll see more and more

pressure to open certain sports fisheries to commercial

fishing."

He pointed out that several marine species are cur-

rently threatened to the point of extinction by heavy

commercial pressure. "In Georgia, as everywhere, we

need to learn more about fish population sizes, compo-

sition and distribution, so that if and when a species

becomes subjected to commercial exploitation, we can

make realistic management recommendations. In some

cases, our data may show that certain species just can't

tolerate heavy commercial harvesting. There's no doubt

that we'll have to use our fisheries resources more wisely

in the years to come."

So far, the opportunities are wide open in such species

as spot, swordfish, tripletail, tuna, bluefin tuna, summer
trout and pompano. No fish have yet been entered in

those categories, so the first fisherman who weighs one

in will have a state record.

There are 46 species now recognized in Georgia as

game fish. While this list is fairly complete, fishermen

are welcome to make recommendations for other species

which they think should be listed.

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OFFICIAL WEIGHSTATIONS

Frank Mathews Seafood 1 16 W. Congress St. Savannah

Yellow Bluff Fishing Camp Midway

Isle of Hope Marina Savannah

Troupe Creek Marina Brunswick

Savannah Sportfishing Club Bradley Point Savannah

Higdon's Bait House Mallory Street St. Simons Island

Thunderbolt Marina Savannah

St. Simons Marina Gascoigne Bluff St. Simons Island

Chimney Creek Marina Savannah Beach

Mac's Bait House Hwy. 17 Brunswick

Georgia Dept. of Natural Resources Hwy. 17 Brunswick

Two Way Fish Camp
Darien Hwy. Brunswick

Hickory Bluff Fish Camp
Dover Bluff Rd.
Camden County

Golden Isles Marina J. Torras Causeway St. Simons Island

Jekyll Island Marina Jekyll Island

Tidewater Boat Works Thunderbolt

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Fish
Amberjack (greater)
Barracuda (greater)
Bass (black sea) Bluefish Cobia Croaker (Atlantic)
Dolphin
Drum (black)
Channel Bass Flounder (all species)
Grouper (all species) Jack (crevalle)
Ladyfish Mackerel (king) Mackerel (Spanish) Marlin (blue)
Martin (white)
Pompano
Sailfish
Sea Trout (spotted) Shark (blacktip) Shark (bull) Shark (dusky) Shark (hammerhead) (species composite) Shark (lemon) Shark (mako)
Shark (sandbar) Shark (sand tiger) Shark (thresher) Shark (tiger) Sheepshead Snapper (all species)
Snook Spadefish Spot Swordfish Tarpon
Tripletail
Tuna (bigeye) Tuna (blackfin) Tuna (bluefin) Tuna (yellowfin) Tunny (little)
Wahoo
Whiting (all species)
Triggerfish (grey)
Summer Trout
1. "WR2" Reef-Brunswick

GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES SALTWATER SPORTFISH RECORDS
For information call Larry D. Smith (912) 264-7218

Weight

Angler

Place

92 lb., 1 oz.
41 lb., 12oz.
3 lb., 8 oz.
14 lb., 1 oz. 60 lb., 8oz. 5 lb., 6oz.
54 lb., 8 oz.
70 lb. 45 lb. 10 lb.
15 lb., 8 oz.
30 lb.
1 lb., 15 oz. 35 lb., 8oz. 7 lb., 2 oz. 361 lb.
35 lb.
No record
51 lb., 8oz. 9 lb., 7oz. 114 lb., 4oz. 450 lb. 140 lb. 770 lb.
375 lb. 228 lb., 8 oz.
156 lb., 8 oz. 158 lb., 8oz. 116 lb. 794 lb. 11 lb., 4oz. 26 lb.
6 lb., 1 oz. 6 1b., 15 oz.
No record No record
137 1b., 8oz.
No record No record
21 lb. 4oz.
No record
165 1b. 4oz. 20 1b. 88 lb., 12 oz.
2 lb., 12 oz.

Ben W. Key, Jr.
H. Lewis Hazel
Donald Tyler
Allen Woods
M. Harrellson A. W. Jordan, Jr.
Romona Arsenault
Myrtie Welborn J. D. Long Hinton Bradford
Allen Woods
Del Turner Cornelia Nunnally
Allen Woods
John V. McCranie Harold Murray
Joe Fraser
Leopold Alder, II
Tommy Hall
John T. Goad, Jr. L. B. Kennedy Chet Kirby Charlie Marshall
Thomas Winslow Harry Woolley
Bobby Kolb G. W. Sanders, IV Mark Noble Chuck Hall Robert C. McDonald
Albert Klein, Jr.
William Music Mike Evans

Reef "J" St. Catherines
Texas Tower Savannah Snapper Banks Tampa Reef "WR2" Reef 1
Turtle River Brunswick
66 miles off W-2 Wassaw N. Newport River
Darien Christmas Creek Brunswick SE of "G" Buoy
Tampa Reef Hampton River "WR2" Reef 1
"STS" Gulf Stream
Savannah Gulf Stream
Savannah Christmas Creek St. Andrews Sound St. Andrews Sound St. Simons
Little
Cumberland Island St. Andrews Sound Gulf Stream Savannah St. Andrews Sound
"STS" 2
"WR2" 1
"STS" 2 "2B" Buoy3 Snapper Bank
Savannah
Turtle River
R "2B" Buoy 3

C. Robert West

St. Simons

W. H. Bachus
Anne Smith Sister Mary Clarice Tom Pardue
Harold G. Guinn

Tampa Reef
Savannah Savannah Gulf Stream Savannah McKay River

Date
June 1975
September 1 975
July 1976 March 1976
May 1975
February 1 975
July 1976
July 1975 1969 June 1975
May 1976
July 1975 August 1976 August 1974 June 1975
May 1975
May 1976
August 1973 July 1976
May 1975
July 1974 June 1974 August 1973
July 1974
May 1975
May 1975 May 1976
March 1976 August 1975 April 1974
May 1975
February 1 976 April 1974
1969
May 1975
May 1973
July 1973 September 1 974
February 1975

6 1b., 3 oz.
No record

Alex Carlson

Tampa Reef

-- 2. "STS" St. Simons Channel

3. "2B" Buoy-- Brunswick

June 1975

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Latter-Day
Quail Wagons
A modern application of an old-time technique

By Aaron Pass Photography by the Author

Quail hunting may appear to be one type of
hunting activity, loosely classed as an outdoor recreation, but in the South, it evolved into something more. Transcending description as a simple outdoor recreation, it even surpassed the status of a venerable and honorable sport. It became a cultural legacy, and like all things Southern, venerable and cultural, it was
permeated by tradition and social custom. While many of the traditions and customs were only distantly
related to the hunting of bobwhite quail, they were a

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reflection of those times when quail hunting was

THE regarded as

sport of the patrician class.

Quail hunting in the classic manner, as described by

Buckingham, Babcock, Rutledge and others, reached its

zenith in the forty years surrounding the turn of the

century. This was the period of the Victorian South

heavy with aristocratic pretention and an obsession

with a social caste system strictly observed. It was

inevitable that the quail hunt, which was a social event,

be heavily imbued with social standards.

Since everyone could (and almost everyone did)

hunt quail the mode of hunting was an important social

distinction in a society based largely on social

distinctions. Thus rose the concept that there was quail

hunting and there was quail hunting, i.e., the style in

which one hunted determined his social standing.

The hunter in brush worn clothes who followed an

un-pedigreed "meat" dog on foot was one type of quail

hunter. The aristocratic ladies and gentlemen who

followed well-bred dogs while riding horseback or on

specially built wagons were cut of a different mold. In the

upper social strata horses, dogs and money mingled so

closely as to be interchangeable. From this sprang a

description of a wealthy individual which is still in
common use. Someone who rode a blooded horse and

was trailed by well-bred dogs was said to be "well

mounted and well-heeled."

From the late nineteenth through the early twentieth

centuries, the classic quail hunt, conducted in the Grand

Style, included a quail wagon. This ingenious vehicle

was specifically designed and outfitted for its purpose

the efficient hunting of the bobwhite quail. Essentially

it was a mobile kennel holding fresh braces of dogs for

a full day's hunt. It also had seats for those hunters
who did not go horseback and space for such luggage as
might be necessary. It also had its elaborations. Usually drawn by a team of matched mules with decorated harness, some even had a small brazier where a hot field lunch could be prepared. It served as general carryall for the hunt and helped cover in some comfort the considerable distances on large plantations.
The quail wagon is gone now, like the times that spawned it, and its retirement from the hunting field left a void. It was more than a social benchmark dividing the have-somes' from the have-mores'; it was a practical and useful vehicle that well served its
specialized function.
Today's hunter is still vehicle bound, perhaps more so than his grandfather. Only the lucky few can start hunting at the edge of the back porch. Long drives to the hunting area are the rule, and the family sedan is the likely vehicle. The needs of highway travel are the paramount considerations for the normal hunting excursion. This, however, is transportation, and a Volkswagon loaded with bird hunters in one end and dogs in the other is scarcely a bloodline heir to the traditions of the quail wagon.
Closer to that spirit is the pick-up truck with a dog box in the back. It offers reasonable highway comfort but is rugged enough to provide access to the hunting field. It is very compatible with the style of much modern quail hunting, known as "spot" hunting. As the large land holdings have broken up, the hunter is faced, not with a day-long tramp through unending fields and
woods, but with a series of mini hunts. He hunts each
spot to the extent of its promise or his permission to
With careful planning, you can have your cake and eat it, too. This well-thought-out quail rig becomes a
family R V with the
removal of the front mounted seats, gun rack and dog box.

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The modern quail vehicle should have adequate dog carrying space. The dogs should be wide-ranging with plenty of speed and stamina.
trespass, then he loads up and moves on. In form and function, the pick-up used this way bears
a semblance to the old quail wagon. The main difference is that the actual hunting is done on foot. The quail wagon was designed to be hunted from, in the sense that it followed the dogs into the field. Its main purpose was to allow the hunter (s) to cover more
territory in the course of a day's hunt. It is, of course, a valid question as to the need to cover
so much ground under modern hunting conditions. The
old plantations are mostly broken up or they are already involved in intensive quail management programs and are jealously guarded. (Chances are those places still have an original quail wagon in service, to provide that "Gracious Southern Atmosphere.") In light of these conditions, is the function of the quail wagon as dead as the mule team that pulled it?
No, because the need for that function is not dead. In the vast industrial timberlands and on the huge fields of modern agri-business enterprises the chunks of space between coveys are large. Larger perhaps today than in years gone by when the agricultural practices leaned
toward smaller fields and more borders. To the foot hunter the immensity of modern quail habitat in South
Georgia is almost overpowering. This is the domain of the latter-day quail wagon.
A short wheel base, four-wheel drive vehicle, on the
order of the old army jeep, is the basis for most modern quail hunting rigs. They vary from the simplicity of an open top surplus jeep with dog box installed, up through a new Jeep, Toyota or Bronco equipped with brush guard, winches, flotation tires, dog boxes and
maybe even front mounted seats. Many full size
four-wheel pick-ups are also in use, but they are
cumbersome in the woods. These vehicles provide the mobility to keep up with wide ranging dogs all day and
cover a great deal of territory in the process.
As is noted by Charley Dickey in his book Bobwhite Quail Hunting, you can't just stroll into an auto dealership and order up a quail hunting rig. Most of the bare
necessities for such a vehicle are not listed in the
manufacturers' option packages. This means that the would-be owner is going to have to innovate and fabricate most of the furnishings. From dog box and gun racks up through luxury items like front-mounted seats, it's strictly a custom job, limited only by the pocketbook and the imagination.
Regarding the pocketbook, four-wheel drive doesn't
come cheap, but then nothing does these days. From the number of 4wd's seen cruising the wilds of east Atlanta and almost every place else, someone can afford
them. Probably most of these vehicles, particularly the short wheel base types, are bought as second cars and as a family recreational vehicle. With a bit of planning, a
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No matter how rugged your vehicle, the singles always
fly into the woods.

non-permanent conversion to quail hunting rig during

RV the season gives a family

a year-round application.

Next to acquiring and outfitting a hunting vehicle, the

biggest difficulty may be finding a place to use it. It

is illegal to hunt on the lands of another without

permission. Getting hunting permission is pretty tough these days, and the fact that you plan to drive all over the

fields is not likely to help your odds with the average

farmer. Industrial timberland is also privately owned and likewise requires permission. It is not sensible to

outfit a quail hunting rig unless you already have access to land where its use will be permitted.
The South Georgia coastal plain is the domain of the hunting vehicle just as it was for the quail wagon. Here

the use of a vehicle in the course of following the digs is an accepted practice so permission (to use the vehicle)
is easier to secure. Even so, the prudent guest will confine his driving to woods roads and field lanes as much as possible.
A dog box is basic to convenient hunting. As great

a pal as your pet bird finder might be, a good box

is worth its weight in seat covers when you must leave Spot alone in the vehicle. Also most dogs get a great charge out of rolling in fresh manure and other aromatics which may not be so agreeable to human

passengers.

The confirmed user of a specialized hunting vehicle usually has two to six dogs for a day's hunt. The pace of the vehicle, no matter how slow you take it, wears down
-- dogs in a hurry, particularly on hot days. The pace is
fast that's one of the main reasons for the vehicle. Most of the old-time quail wagon types used two or

three braces of dogs a day even at mule speed. The dogs for this type of hunting are specialists, too.
They should be fast, long-winded and rugged. Even

field trial stock finds a practical hunting application here. Those far-horizon wind-burners, despised by foot

hunters everywhere, are in their element in front of a
hunting rig. In all honesty this is a game for specialists and it is unfair to make a dog accustomed to the pace of foot hunting try to outrun a jeep all day. If you have a good, close working dog, put him down on the singles.
No matter where you hunt, you'll seldom be able to
drive to them.

Vehicle hunting isn't the answer to all quail hunting;

it isn't even the answer to most of it as we know it in
Georgia today. It's a specialized form that has evolved over the past century to cope with a certain situation. Where it's practical it is an efficient and effective style of
-- hunting and can mean more birds found in the course
of the day. It's not for everyone but neither were

the quail wagons.

For more information on quail hunting vehicles, see Bobwhite Quail Hunting by Charley Dickey, copyright 1974 by Oxmoor House, Inc., P.O. Box 2463, Birmingham, Alabama 35202. (efi

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REQUIEM FOR A KING

Following the Civil War, many Southern plantations lay in ruin. The cotton fields surrendered to a growth of brown sage, which in turn began to attract bobwhite quail. During the 1880s, many plantations throughout
the South and especially in the Thomasville, Georgia Tallahassee, Florida area were reestablished as hunting
preserves. Some of these plantations today cover as much
as 10,000 acres and time seems at a 1910 standstill. Socalled "progress" is spurned by both owners and "Gentleman Bob" alike.

The first Georgia quail wagons were invented in the 1880s. The single seater depicted here carried hunters, supplies and hunting dogs. Drawn by a pair of matched mules with red plumes and tassles waving, the wagon was a sight to behold. Fittings of polished brass accented the black body and red trim of this elegant rig.

With the passing of time this old wagon has been re-

tired to the fields over which it traveled so often in by-

gone days. Gone now are the hunting dogs once carried

No in the high-sided pens.

longer will the cry of "point"

be heard by this old veteran. The cavalry-like charge to

dogs on point is now only a misty memory.

The black paint has faded and the red trimmed wheels are no longer sturdy, but the elegance of this grand old wagon remains intact.

The bobwhite, gentleman that he is, seems to be singing a song of respect and friendship to the old "King."

Art and text by James R. Darnell

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Chasing the Hounds

Fox Hunting South Georgia
Style . .

Master of Hounds Wallace Dempsey goes on the mike to announce the order of
contestants, as he gets set to cast the foxhounds.
By Bill Hammack
Photography by Bob Busby
-- Breakfast for the foxhunters coffee,
grits, eggs, sausage, bacon, biscuits, toast
was on the table at 5 o'clock in the morning at Ft. Gaines on the Chattahoochee in southwest
Georgia. To the west just beyond the restaurant
that sits on the road to Georgetown, the inland
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sea formed by Walter F. George dam lay in
the darkness.
Driving the 20-some-odd miles to the
foxhunters' breakfast in the November cold,
having been awakened by my mother at 4 a.m.,
I was alone on the highway, drifting up and
down the 10 miles of roller-coaster road between Coleman and Ft. Gaines, listening to the heater fan humming and the cold, dark
wind keening past outside the car. As my
headlights silvered patches of fog I thought
about foxhunting and foxhunters. A few hours
ago, when it was still last night, I was talking to Frank Dunn at the barbecue and Brunswick stew supper and foxhound bench show in the American Legion post at Ft. Gaines.
"Foxhunters," said Frank Dunn, "are a dedicated bunch. They'll get up so early in the morning it's the middle of the night, or they'll
stay out nearly all night, in the freezing cold, in snow, in all sorts of weather, just to listen to the music of the hounds."
Frank Dunn, who lives in Morgan, Ga.,
has been dedicated to foxhunting for well over
half a century. Now 74, he was foxhunting with
his father at the age of eight, riding a red mule named "Minnie." Since then he has hunted all over the country, served as judge at bench shows throughout the Southeast, has been
president of the U.S. Open and of the Mid South Open foxhunters associations, has owned such celebrated foxhounds as High Grade II and Georgia Girl. "They were among the top 10 dogs in the United States," said Dunn. "One time, Georgia Girl won a Georgia Open bench show and placed third in the field. That made her the Georgia State dual champion. Was offered $5,000 for her. Turned it down."
Dunn was judge at the bench show at Ft. Gaines. The show and field trial make up an
annual event held by the Southwest Georgia Foxhunters Association, composed of about 50 members from Georgia, Florida and Alabama.
President of the association for the past 1
years is Mark Miliner, a peanut farmer of Edison. Ringmaster at the bench show was Wallace Dempsey of Cave Springs, a widely known master of hounds who has served as master at more than 500 field trials all over the
country, held by such prestigious associations as
the U.S. Open and the National. Dempsey, a
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master of hounds since 1 948, ran the field trials starting the following morning.
On the way to the place about 6 miles from
Ft. Gaines where Dempsey would cast the hounds, he rode with Conservation Ranger L. W. McDowell of Early County; I was riding
with Clay County's Conservation Ranger, Corporal Leonard Standley. Rangers provide support for such activities as field trials. Looking at the long line of foxhunters' pickup headlights winding around the dirt road toward the casting place, I was reminded of a story told by foxhunter J. B. Durden of Grand Ridge, Fla.
"A procession of foxhunters in their pickups
drove by this farm house in the near middle
of the night," he said. "Down the road from the
house was a country church and a graveyard. The lady of the house had got up early and gone to the kitchen to make some coffee. She saw that string of pickups headed like toward
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tales a little touch of truth and a lot of exaggeration.
the graveyard, and she hollered for her husband.
'Get up and come see this,' she hollered.
'This has got to be a funeral procession.
Somebody must've died late and they're burying him early.' "
When foxhunters start telling tales, there's truth mixed with something else. "My old dog Jughead, now there's a smart dog," said
John D. Stephens of Quincy, Fla. "He can teach school up to the fourth grade. Teaching third
grade this year. He can find his way home from
80 miles away. Won't run anything but a
fox. And if a fox stays on the ground, he'll catch him. He won't run a deer. Won't allow any
other dog to run a deer. If he sees another dog after a deer, he'll grab that dog and sling the stew out of him. Been offered $ 1 ,000 for
Jughead. Wouldn't take $5,000 for him. No
kind of money could buy him, and I'm a pore man. I've had more pleasure with him than with any dog I've ever had, and I reckon I must've owned about 10,000. Got 35 now. Jughead's
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going to stay with me all his life, and he's going to be buried in a good box when he dies."
John Stephens is 72 years old, has been a foxhunter for 61 of them so far. "I hunt mostly in Georgia these days," he says. "Hunters
hereabouts have good dogs. When it comes to good foxhounds, pretty women and peanuts,
Georgia is the lead state in the Union. I like to ride around this part of the state, watching
farmers harvesting peanuts, pulling those big peanut pickers behind those big tractors."
"I'm a foxhound man, too," said Callie Davis
of Morgan, Ga. "But I'm a coon dog man as well. Had this master coonhound once, a bluetick. Had a whole bunch of coon claws nailed to my smokehouse wall. If I wanted a small coon to eat, I'd show my dog a small claw. Then he'd catch me a small coon. If I wanted a big
coon to sell, I'd show him a big claw. That dog never missed. I had another good coonhound

that choked to death near a pecan tree in a

peanut field. He was a mighty fast animal. He

had been running this coon for about a mile.

That coon was fast, too. There they went,

My splitting the wind.

dog was running that

coon so fast the wind blew the rings off the
coon's tail and over around my dog's neck and
they choked him to death."

Lost dogs are as much a part of foxhunting as the camaraderie among the hunters

foxhounds range far and wide on a chase. Some

are irretrievably lost to owners; other hounds

sometimes are gone for months. "I lost eight

dogs last year around Cotton Hill near here,"

said J. N. Clance of Georgetown, Ga. "Never

found them. I've had dogs missing as long as eight months before I'd find them. Usually, you

find them before then or you don't find them

at all." At Ft. Gaines the hounds were cast on

a Friday morning, and that afternoon was

devoted to rounding up as many dogs as

possible to be ready for the following morning's

hunt.

Searching for dogs is only one of the

vicissitudes facing a foxhunter, which probably
is why Frank Dunn said, "You have to be

born a foxhunter. Very few are self-made.

You've got to love hearing your dogs run and
make music, you've got to enjoy the competition

of your dogs against somebody else's, you've

got to love the outdoors, you've got to take

pleasure in getting together with other

foxhunters. You've got to have a running-over

measure of desire for all these things to stay

out all night in freezing weather."
Mike Hasty, who possesses this measure of desire, puts it another way. He says, "A fellow

who'll spend 70 or 80 dollars a month on dog

Foxhound bench show at the American Legion Post in Ft. Gaines. That's Frank Dunn, the show's judge, walking away from the camera.

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The Ft. Gaines bench show and the following day's field trial are an annual event of the Southwest Georgia Foxhunters A ssociation.

-- food and that's about what it costs for around -- 15 hounds plus nearly the same amount in

veterinary fees, plus the other expenses, and
who then takes his dogs out and loses them

that fellow has got to be crazy." Hasty is
grinning as he says, "Count me in."

The music of the hounds is compelling, as I found out while accompaning J. N. Clance,

one of the field judges at Ft. Gaines. The skies

had been overcast and dark since early morning,

night turning nearly imperceptibly into day,

and a little after 8 a.m. a fine mist of cold

rain started. The misting rain soon stopped, then

the wind picked up and the chill factor made

itself shiveringly felt. "This wind makes it rough," Clance said. "That frost we had here

the first of the week makes it rough, too. Scent
-- conditions right after a frost are bad the frost

We sours the grass.

need a good rain to freshen

things up. These clouds are fine. Cloudy days are good foxhunting days. Some foxhunters

hunt in the mornings. But most hunt at night.

The scent of the fox is usually stronger at night."

Clance pointed to some fox tracks crossing
the dirt road. "A gray fox runs in circles,

making a few wide rounds to start with, then
closing in," he said. "A red runs a lot wider than a gray. The fox that made those tracks is a gray. Smaller than a red. And notice the marks
A of the toenails. gray's tracks shows them. A red's doesn't."

Not long after 9 o'clock, the sun started

peeking out from behind the clouds like a

bashful maiden at a party, seemingly unwilling

to join the fun all the way. That didn't bother

the foxhunters. As they followed the chase,

they'd gather in small groups on one of the dirt

roads around there, and as they listened to the

hounds run, you could tell they were listening to

what was to them the sweetest music this side

of angels singing.

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Laura S. Walker State Park

By Rebecca N. Marshall Photography by Jim Couch
If you're planning to visit the Okefenokee
-- -- Swamp, Laura S. Walker State Park offers the
closest -and the best camping facilities north of the swamp. The park lies just 9 miles from
the Okefenokee. Since camping in the swamp
itself is limited to the platforms along the canoe trails, Laura S. Walker's 90 campsites with electricity and water, pioneer camping area,
group camp that shelters 120 people, large swimming pool, and numerous picnic sites overlooking the lake make it an ideal stopping place for campers on their way to the
Okefenokee.
Laura S. Walker serves many local users, too.
It offers the only lake in the area that's big
enough to ski on, and folks can put in their boats from the ramp right in the park.
Fishing attracts many visitors, too. The lake
has been stocked with bluegill, catfish, largemouth and shellcracker, so it's getting easier to catch your supper and cook it without leaving the park.
When the weather's good, family reunions
often fill the park on Sunday afternoons. Laura S. Walker offers visitors an easy and
interesting lesson in Georgia history, too, since
it is one of the few public parks ever named for a woman.
Laura S. Walker State Park is 10 miles southeast of Waycross, just off U.S. 84 on Ga. Highway 177. For more information call the park at (912) 283-4424, or
write Laura S. Walker State Park, Waycross, GA
31501.

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Laura Singleton Walker was a teacher, writer

and well-respected civic leader in South

Georgia. She displayed an unflagging devotion

to conservation and to the preservation of

forests in that area of the state.

The citizens of South Georgia so admired

Mrs. Walker that they felt she deserved public

recognition. Thanks largely to their efforts, the

park was named for her in 1946. It became the

first government park to be named for a person

still living, as well as the first to honor a

woman.

So if you're looking for a stopping place on

the way to the Okefenokee, or a relatively

uncrowded fishing site, or just interested in a

glimpse of Georgia's past, Laura S. Walker

State Park deserves a visit.

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1911 GEORGIA TIDE TABLES
This Tide Table for 1977 is furnished to you compliments of OUTDOORS IN GEORGIA for your use in coastal fishing and hunting.
Fold it and put it in your tackle box, hunting coat, or wherever it will always be
handy, for use all year long.
Although tide tables have, in the past, been published in the January Outdoors in Georgia, because of a delay in receiving the 1977 Tide Tables, we were forced to delay
their publication until February. Our apologies.
Predicted tide times and heights are shown for the Georgia coast at the bar at the Savannah River entrance. You may compute the tide times for other points listed by subtracting or adding hou.s and minutes as indicated. A plus time indicates a later tide and a minus time an earlier tide. Daylight saving time is not used in this table. All daily time predictions are based on Eastern Standard Time meridian. Predicted times may be converted to daylight saving time by adding one hour to these data.
These data are from the 1977 Tide Tables for the East Coast of North and South America, National Ocean Survey, U.S. Department of Commerce, Rockville, Md. 20852.

GEORGIA
Savannah River Tybee Light Port Wentworth

DIFFERENCES

Time

High

Low

Water

Water

Hrs./Min

Hrs./Min

-0 08 + 33

-0 15 + 41

Tybee Creek and
Wassaw Sound
Tybee Creek entrance . . . Thunderbolt Isle of Hope, Skidaway River

-0 07 + 34 + 52

Ossabaw Sound

Egg Island

+ 06

Fort McAllister, Ogeechee River + 50

Cane Patch Creek entrance

+ 57

St. Catherines and

Sapelo Sounds

Walburg Creek entrance .

.

Kilkenny Club, Kilkenny Creek

Sunbury, Medway River . .
.... Blackbeard Island

Mud R., at Old Teakettle Cr.

+ 25 + 31 + 56 + 20 + 47

+ 02 + 09 + 25
+ 07 + 1 13 + 40
+ 20 + 13 + 42 + 19 + 43

DIFFERENCES

Time

High

Low

Water

Water

Doboy and Altamaha Hrs./Min. Hrs./Min.

Sounds
Blackbeard Cr., Blackbeard I. .
Sapelo Island
.... Darien, Darien River
Wolf Island
Champney I., S. Altamaha R. .

+0 21
00
+1 10
+0 06
+1-12

+ 44 + 02 + 1 12 + 35 + 2 30

St. Simons Sound
.... St. Simons Sound bar
St. Simons Light
Troup Cr. entr., Mackay R.
.... Brunswick, East River

+0 01 +0 24 +0 54 +0 55

-0 05 + 28 + 49 + 40

St. Andrew Sound

Jekyll Point

+0 28

Jointer Island, Jointer Creek

+1 02

Dover Blu:, Dover Creek . . . +0 57

Cumberland Wh., Cumb. R. . . +0 40

+ 28 + 49 + 49 + 42

Cumberland Sound

+0 St. Marys Entr., north jetty . .

15

Crooked River entrance

+1 23

Harritts Bluff, Crooked River . +2 09

St. Marys, St. Marys River . . +121

+ 15 + 1 12 + 2 12 + 1 13

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SAVANNAH PIVER FflTRANCE, GA., 1977 TIMES AND HEIGHTS OF HIGH AND LOW WATERS

JANUARY

TIME HT.

TIME HT.

DAY

DAY

h.m. ft.

h.m. ft.

1 0454 6.5 SA 1115 0.5
1721 5.8 2326 -0.2
2 0542 6.8 SU 1200 0.3
1806 5.9

16 0505 7.4 SU 1 123 -0.6
1721 6.5 2334 -1 .2
17 0606 7.8 M 1220 -0.9 1819 6.8

3 0011 -0.3 H 0625 7.0
1246 0.1 1846 6.0
4 0056 -0.4 TU 0704 7.2
1328 0.0 1923 6.2
5 0138 -0.5 W 0741 7.3
1410 -0.2 2000 6.3
6 0218 -0.6 TH 0818 7.4
1451 -0.3 2036 6.4
7 0300 -0.6 F 0856 7.4
1529 -0.3 2115 6.4
8 0342 -0.6 SA 0936 7.3
1608 -0.4 2157 6.5
9 0424 -0.5 SU 1019 7.2
1648 -0.4 2245 6.6
10 0512 -0.4 M 1106 7.0 1733 -0.4 2338 6.6
11 0605 -0.2 TU 1157 6.8
1826 -0.4
12 0036 6.7 W 0706 0.0 1255 6.6 1923 -0.4
13 0137 6.8 TH 0812 0.0
1355 6.4 2030 -0.4
14 0245 6.9 F 0919 -0.1 1501 6.3 2134 -0.6
15 0356 7.1 SA 1022 -0.3
1612 6.3 2236 -0.9

18 0032 -1 .4 TU 0701 8.0
131 5 -1 .2 1915 7.0
19 0127 -1 .5 W 0750 8.1 1405 -1 .3 2004 7.2
20 0219 -1 .5 TH 0837 8.0
1454 -1 .3 2051 7.2
21 0307 -1 .3 F 0922 7.7 1539 -1 .2 2136 7.0
22 0352 -1 .1 SA 1005 7.3
1623 -1 .0 2219 6.8
23 0437 -0.7 SU 1047 6.9
1704 -0.7 2304 6.6
24 0519 -0.3 M 1128 6.5 1746 -0.4 2351 6.4
25 0605 0.1 TU 1213 6.1
1833 -0.1

26 0036 6.2 W 0656 0.5 1255 5.7 1922 0.1

27 0123 6.0

TH 0751 0.7

1 344

5.5

2015 0.3

28 0214 5.9 F 0849 0.8 1436 5.3 2109 0.3

29 0309 6.0 SA 0945 0.8
1535 5.3 2201 0.1

30 0408 6.1 SU 1038 0.6
1634 5.4 2253 0.0

31 0503 6.4 M 1127 0.3 1731 5.6 2340 -0.3

FEBRUARY

TIME HT.

TIME HT.

DAY

DAY

h.m. ft.

h.m. ft.

1 0553 6.7 TU 1214 0.1
1816 5.9
2 0027 -0.5 W 0637 7.0
1259 -0.2 1859 6.2
3 01 12 -0.7 TH 0717 7.2
1344 -0.4 19 39 6.5
4 0157 -0.9 F 0757 7.4
1423 -0.6 2016 6.7
5 0240 -1 .0 SA 0836 7.5
1504 -0.8 2057 6.9
6 0323 -1 .1 SU 0918 7.4
1544 -0.9 2141 7.1
7 0408 -1 .0 M 1000 7.3
1627 -0.9 2227 7.1
8 0456 -0.8 TU 1048 7.0
1712 -0.8 2320 7.1
9 0549 -0.5 W 1141 6.8
1805 -0.7

1 6 0019 -1.1 W 0649 7.6 1257 -1 .0 1903 7.0
17 0112 -1 .2 TH 0736 7.7
1345 -1 .1 1949 7.2
18 0202 -1 .3 F 081 7 7.6 1430 -1.2 2030 7.3
19 0247 -1 .2 SA 0859 7.4
1512 -1 .1 2109 7.2
20 0329 -1 .0 SU 0936 7.1
1 552 -0.9 2148 7.1
21 0408 -0.7 M 1012 6.7 1629 -0.7 2226 6.8
22 0448 -0.3 TU 1049 6.4
1708 -0.4 2306 6.6
23 0528 0.1 W 1127 6.0 1749 0.0 2349 6.4
24 0612 0.4 TH 1209 5.8
1834 0.3

10 0018 7.0 25 0033 6.2

TH 0647 -0.2

F 0703 0.7

1236 6.4

1255 5.5

1903 -0.5

1927 0.5

11

01 19

6.8

26 0123

6.0

F 0753 0.0 SA 0759 0.9

1339 6.2

1 346

5.3

2010 -0.4

2023 0.6

12 0228 6.8 27 0218 6.0

SA 0902 0.0 SU 0900 0.9

1447 6.0

1443 5.3

2120 -0.4

2122 0.5

13 0343 6.8 28 0318 6.0

SU 1009 -0.2

M 0957 0.8

1601 6.1

1548 5.4

2223 -0.6

2217 0.2

14 0454 7.1 M 1108 -0.5 1711 6.3 2323 -0.9

15 0557 7.4 TU 1204 -0.8
1811 6.7

MARCH

TIME HT.

TIME HT.

DAY

DAY

h.m. ft.

h.m. ft.

1 0420 6.3 TU 1051 0.5
1649 5.7 2308 -0.1
2 0515 6.6 W 1139 0.1
1742 6.1 2358 -0.4
3 0606 7.0 TH 1225 -0.2
1830 6.6

4 0047 -0.8

F 0651

7.3

1310 -0.6

1914 7.1

5 0133 -1 .0 SA 0733 7.6
1354 -0.9 1956 7.5

6 0219 -1.2 SU 0814 7.7
14 38 -1 .1 2037 7.7

7 0306 -1 .3 M 0857 7.6
1521 -1 .2 2123 7.8

8 0352 -1 .2

TU 0942 7.5

1606 -1 .1

221 1

7.8

9 0442 -1 .0 W 1032 7.2
1653 -0.9 2304 7.6

10 0535 -0.7 TH 1125 6.8
1746 -0.6

1 1 0004

7.3

F 0633 -0.3

1223 6.5

1847 -0.3

12 0106 7.0 SA 0738 0.0
1 328 6.2 1956 -0.1

13 0216 6.8 SU 0847 0.1
14 37 6.1 2106 -0.1

14 0330 6.8 M 0952 0.0 1551 6.2 2212 -0.2

15 0441 6.9 TU 1051 -0.3
1700 6.5 2310 -0.4

16 0542 7.1 W 1145 -0.5 1758 6.9

17 0006 -0.6 TH 0633 7.3
1233 -0.7 184 8 7.2
18 0056 -0.8 F 0717 7.4 1320 -0.8 1929 7.4
19 0141 -0.8 SA 0755 7.3
1401 -0.9 2006 7.5
20 0224 -0.8 SU 0832 7.2
1442 -0.8 2042 7.5
21 0304 -0.6 M 0906 6.9 1519 -0.6 2115 7.4
22 0341 -0.4 TU 0938 6.7
1555 -0.4 2150 7.2
23 0419 -0.1 W 1011 6.4 1632 -0.1 2227 6.9
24 0456 0.2 TH 1048 6.1
1712 0.2 2306 6.7
25 0536 0.5 F 1128 5.9 1753 0.5 2349 6.5
26 0621 0.8 SA 1213 5.7
1841 0.7

27 0039 6.3

SU 0714

1 .0

1303 5.6

1940 0.9

28 0131 6.2

M 0814

1 .0

1402 5.6

2041 0.8

29 0230 6.2 TU 0915 0.9
1504 5.7 2141 0.5

30 0331 6.4 W 1012 0.6 1609 6.1 2236 0.2

31 0433 6.7

TH 1101

0.1

1707 6.6

2329 -0.3

TIME MERIDIAN 75 W. 0000 IS MIDNIGHT. 1200 IS NOON. HEIGHTS ARE RECKONED FROM THE DATUM OF SOUNDINGS ON CHARTS OF THE LOCALITY WHICH IS MEAN LOW WATER.

February 1977

29

SAVANNAH RIVER ENTRANCE, PA., 1977 TIMFS AND HEIGHTS OF HIRH AND LOU WATERS

APRIL

TIME HT.

TIME HT.

DAY

DAY

h . m.

ft.

h.m. ft.

1 0529 7.0 F 1149 -0.3
1800 7.2
2 0019 -0.7 SA 0619 7.4
1237 -0.7 1847 7.7
3 0109 -1 .0 SU 0706 7.7
1323 -1 .0 1933 8.2
4 0159 -1 .3 M 0752 7.8
1412 -1 .2 2018 8.4
5 0249 -1 .4 TU 0837 7.8
1459 -1 .3 2106 8.5
6 0336 -1 .3 W 0926 7.6
1547 -1 .2 2157 8.3
7 0427 -1 .1 TH 1018 7.3
1637 -0.9 2251 8.0
8 0522 -0.7 F 1114 6.9
1732 -0.5 2351 7.6
9 0619 -0.3 SA 1215 6.6
1833 -0.1

16 0032 -0.3 SA 0651 7.0
1248 -0.5 1904 7.6
17 01 17 -0.4 SU 0730 7.0
1330 -0.5 1939 7.7
18 0158 -0.4 M 0803 6.9 1410 -0.5 2013 7.7
19 0236 -0.3 TU 0835 6.7
1447 -0.3 2045 7.6
20 0315 -0.2 W 0907 6.5 1524 -0.1 2118 7.4
21 0350 0.0 TH 0939 6.3
1600 0.1 2154 7.2
22 0427 0.3 F 1016 6.1 1638 0.3 2232 7.0
23 0506 0.5 SA 1056 5.9
1720 0.6 2313 6.8
24 0549 0.7 SU 1141 5.8
180 5 0.8

10 0055 7.2 SU 0722 0.0
1321 6.4 1940 0.2

11 0203 6.9 M 0829 0.1 1431 6.3 2053 0.3

12 0313 6.8 TU 0931 0.0
1539 6.5 2156 0.2

13 0420 W 1027 1644 2254

6.8 -0.1
6.8 0.0

14 0518 6.9 TH 1118 -0.3
1739 7.1 2345 -0.2

15 0609 7.0 F 1204 -0.4 1824 7.4

25 0002 M 0638 1231 1900

6.6 0.9 5.8 0.9

26 0055 6.5 TU 0734 0.9
1327 5.9 2001 0.9

27 0151 6.5 W 0833 0.7 1426 6.1 2106 0.7

28 0251 6.6 TH 0928 0.4
1530 6.5 2205 0.3

29 0351 6.7 F 1024 0.0 1633 7.0 2258 -0.2

30 0452 7.0 SA 1115 -0.5
1729 7.6 2352 -0.6

MAY

TIME HT.

TIME HT.

DAY

DAY

h.m. ft.

h.m. ft.

1 0547 7.3 SU 1206 -0.9
1822 8.2

2 0045 -1 .0 H 0640 7.6
1256 -1 .1 1912 8.6
3 0138 -1 .2 TU 0730 7.7
1347 -1 .3 2001 8.8
4 0230 -1 .3 w 0819 7.7
1438 -1 .3 2051 8.8
5 0322 -1 .3 TH 0910 7.5
1529 -1 .2 2144 8.6
6 0414 -1 .1 F 1005 7.3
1623 -0.9 2240 8.2
7 0508 -0.8 SA 1104 7.0
1717 -0.5 2338 7.8
8 0604 -0.5 SU 1205 6.7
1818 -0.1

9 0042 7.3 M 0703 -0.2
1308 6.6 1924 0.3

10 0143 7.0 TU 0805 -0.1
1411 6.6 2031 0.4

1 1 0246

6.7

W 0904 0.0

1515 6.6

2133 0.4

12

34 8

6.5

TH 0957 -0.1

1616 6.8

2230 0.3

13 0446 6.5 F 104 7 -0.2 1707 7.1 2318 0.2

14 0537 6.5 SA 1131 -0.3
1753 7.3

15 0006 0.1 SU 0620 6.5
1215 -0.3 1834 7.5

16 0048 0.0 M 0657 6.5 1256 -0.3 1911 7.6
17 0130 -0.1 TU 0733 6.5
1 338 -0.3 1945 7.6
18 0211 0.0 W 0806 6.4 1417 -0.2 2018 7.6
19 0249 0.0 TH 0838 6.3
1455 0.0 2051 7.4
20 0327 0.1 F 0912 6.1 1532 0.1 2126 7.3
21 0403 0.2 SA 0949 6.0
1611 0.3 2203 7.1
22 0442 0.4 SU 1027 6.0
1651 0.5 2245 7.0
23 0521 0.5 M 1112 5.9 1736 0.7 2330 6.8
24 0607 0.5 TU 1202 6.0
1827 0.8
25 0021 6.7 W 0656 0.5 1257 6.2 1927 0.8
26 01 14 6.7 TH 0754 0.3
1355 6.5 2031 0.6
27 0212 6.6 F 0852 0.1 1456 6.8 2133 0.3
28 0314 6.7 SA 0949 -0.3
1559 7.3 2231 -0.1
29 0417 6.8 SU 1041 -0.7
1702 7.8 2329 -0.5
30 0518 7.0 M 1 137 -1 .0 1800 8.3
31 0024 -0.9 TU 0616 7.3
12 30 -1 .3 1853 8.7

JUNE

TIME HT.

TIME HT.

DAY

DAY

h.m. ft.

h.m. ft.

1 0120 -1 .2 W 0710 7.4
1326 -1 .4 1946 8.9

2 0213 -1 .3 TH 0804 7.5
1421 -1 .4 2037 8.8

3 0307 -1 .4

F 0857 7.4

1514 -1 .2

21 31

8.6

4 0358 -1 .3 SA 0952 7.2
1608 -0.9 2224 8.2

5 0450 -1 .0 SU 1050 7.0
1703 -0.6 2322 7.7

6 0544 -0.8 M 1149 6.8
1759 -0.1

7 0018 7.3 TU 0639 -0.5
1249 6.7 1859 0.3
8 0116 6.8 W 0734 -0.2
1345 6.6 2002 0.5
9 0211 6.5 TH 0829 -0.1
1441 6.6 2100 0.6
10 0308 6.2 F 0922 -0.1 1537 6.7 2155 0.6
11 0403 6.0 SA 1009 -0.1
1631 6.8 2246 0.5
12 0457 6.0 SU 1057 -0.1
1718 7.0 2334 0.4
13 0545 6.0 M 1140 -0.2 1803 7.2

16 0144 0.1 TH 0740 6.1
1348 -0.2 1953 7.5

17 0225 0.1 F 0814 6.1 1429 -0.1 2028 7.4

18 0303 0.1 SA 0848 6.1
1508 0.0 2102 7.4

19 0342 SU 0925
154 7 2139

0.1 6.1 0.1 7.3

20 0419 0.1 M 1005 6.1 1628 0.2 2219 7.1

21 0456 0.1 TU 1048 6.2
1712 0.4 2304 7.0

22 0538 0.1 W 1137 6.3 1801 0.5 2353 6.9

23 0625 0.1 TH 1229 6.5
1858 0.5

24 0046 6.8 F 0719 0.0 1327 6.8 2002 0.5
25 0142 6.7 SA 0817 -0.2
1429 7.1 2106 0.3
26 0243 6.6 SU 0917 -0.4
1535 7.4 2207 0.0
27 0348 6.6 M 1017 -0.7 1639 7.8 2307 -0.4
28 0454 6.8 TU 1115 -1 .0
1742 8.2

14 0018 0.3 TU 0627 6.1
1224 -0.2 1843 7.4
15 0103 0.2 U 0704 6.1 1307 -0.2 1919 7.4

29 0005 -0.7 W 0558 7.0 121 1 -1.2 1840 8.5
30 0102 -1 .0 TH 0656 7.2
1309 -1 .3 1933 8.7

TIME MERIDIAN 75 W. 0000 IS MIDNIGHT. 1200 IS NOON. HEIGHTS ARE RECKONEC FROM THE DATUM OF SOUNDINGS ON CHARTS OF THE LOCALITY WHICH IS MEAN LOW WATER.

30

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SAVANNAH RIVER ENTPANCE, RA., 1977 TIMES AND HEIRHTS OF HIGH AND LOW WATERS

JULY

TIME HT.

TIME HT.

DAY

DAY

h.m. ft.

h.m. ft.

1 0157 -1 .2 F 0750 7.4
1406 -1 .3 2024 8.7
2 0250 -1 .3 SA 0843 7.4
1459 -1 .2 2115 8.5
3 0341 -1 .3 SU 0937 7.3
1552 -1 .0 2206 8.1
4 0429 -1 .1 M 1029 7.2
1643 -0.6 2259 7.7
5 0517 -0.9 TU 1125 7.0
1733 -0.2 2348 7.2
6 0605 -0.5 W 1216 6.8
1828 0.3

7 0039 6.7 TH 0657 -0.2
1309 6.7 1924 0.6

8 0129 6.3 F 0748 0.0
1401 6.6 2021 0.9

9 0220 6.0 SA 0842 0.1
1453 6.6 2116 0.9

10 0314 5.8 SU 0932 0.2
1548 6.6 2211 0.9

11 041 1

5.7

M 1020 0.1

1639 6.8

2300 0.7

12 0502 5.8 TU 1107 0.1
1729 7.0 2347 0.6

13 0552 5.9 W 1153 0.0 1811 7.2

16 0157 0.1 SA 0750 6.3
1404 -0.1 2003 7.6
1 7 0237 0.0 SU 0826 6.4
1445 -0.1 2041 7.6
18 0315 -0.1 M 0903 6.5 1526 -0.1 2118 7.5
19 0352 -0.1 TU 0942 6.6
1608 0.0 2157 7.4
20 0429 -0.2 W 1026 6.7 1650 0.1 2240 7.2
21 0509 -0.2 TH 1112 6.9
1738 0.3 2327 7.1
22 0557 -0.2 F 1205 7.0 1834 0.4

23 0020 6.9 SA 0650 -0.1
1304 7.1 1937 0.5

24 01 17 6.7 SU 0749 -0.2
1406 7.3 2043 0.4

25 0220 M 0856 1 514 2148

6.6 -0.3
7.4
0.-2

26 0327 6.5 TU 0959 -0.5
1625 7.7 2251 -0.1

27 0438 6.7 W 1100 -0.7 1729 8.1 2350 -0.4

28 0545 7.0 TH 1 159 -0.9
1830 8.4

14 0032 0.4 TH 0635 6.0
1237 -0.1 1853 7.4
15 0115 0.2 F 0713 6.2 1322 -0.1 1928 7.5

29 0045 -0.8 F 0645 7.3 1256 -1 .1 1922 8.6
30 0139 -1 .0 SA 0738 7.5
1350 -1 .1 2010 8.6
31 0230 -1 .1 SU 0827 7.7
1443 -1 .0 2058 8.4

AUGUST

TIME HT.

TIME HT.

DAY

DAY

h.m. ft.

h.m. ft.

1 0318 -1 .1 M 0917 7.6
1532 -0.8 2144 8.0

2 0403 -1 .0 TU 1004 7.5
1618 -0.4 2229 7.6

3 0446 -0.7 W 1053 7.3
1704 0.0 2312 7.1

4 0530 -0.4 TH 1138 7.1
1753 0.5 2359 6.7

5 0617 F 1226
1841

0.0 6.9 0.9

16 0246 -0.2 TU 0839 7.3
1503 -0.2 2054 7.9
1 7 0325 -0.3 W 0920 7.4 1 546 -0.2 2134 7.7
18 0403 -0.3 TH 1003 7.5
1631 0.0 2219 7.6
19 0445 -0.3 F 1053 7.6 1720 0.2 2306 7.3
20 0533 -0.2 SA 1 146 7.5
1815 0.5

6 0044 SA 0704
1314 1937
7 01 31
SU 0757 1404 2034
8 0223 M 0851
1458 2132
9 0320 TU 0944
1553 2225
10 0420 W 1033 1649 2313
1 1 0515 TH 1123
1739

6.3 0.3 6.7 1.2
6.0 0.5 6.6 1 .3
5.8 0.6 6.6 1 .3
5.7 0.6 6.7
1 .1
5.8 0.5 6.9 0.9
6.0 0.3 7.2

21 0001 7.0 SU 0629 0.0
1246 7.5 1918 0.7

22 0100 6.8 M 0731 0.1 1 350 7.5 2027 0.7

23 0206 6.6 TU 0839 0.1
1500 7.5 2134 0.5

24 0317 6.6 W 0946 0.0 1612 7.7 2236 0.2

25 0430 TH 1049
1721 2334

6.8 -0.2
8.0 -0.1

26 0537 7.2 F 1 147 -0.5 1819 8.3

12 0000 F 0603 1209 1822

0.7 6.2 0.1 7.4

13 0045 0.4 SA 0645 6.5
1253 0.0 1901 7.7

14 0126 SU 0724
1338 19 39

0.2 6.8 -0.1 7.8

15 0207 0.0 M 0801 7.0 1421 -0.2 2015 7.9

27 0028 -0.4 SA 0633 7.6
1243 -0.6 1909 8.5
28 0120 -0.7 SU 0724 7.9
1 334 -0.7 1953 8.5
29 0207 -0.8 M 0809 8.0 1424 -0.6 2035 8.3
30 0251 -0.8 TU 0853 8.0
1510 -0.4 2116 8.0
31 0334 -0.6 W 0934 7.9 1552 -0.1 2155 7.6

SEPTEMBER

TIME HT.

TIME HT.

DAY

DAY

h.m. ft.

h.m. ft.

1 0414 -0.3 TH 1014 7.7
1635 0.3 22 34 7.2

2 0453 0.0 F 1056 7.4
1716 0.7 2314 6.8

3 0536 SA 1141
1802 2357

0.4 7.1
1 .1
6.4

4 0621 0.7 SU 1226 6.9
1852 1.5

16 0339 -0.4 F 0944 8.3 1614 -0.1 2200 7.8

17 0424 -0.3

SA 1034 8.2

1704 0.2

2251

7.5

18 0514 -0.1 SU 1130 8.0
1801 0.5 2346 7.2

19 0610 0.2

M 1231

7.8

1904 0.8

5 0044 M 0712
1314 1948
6 0135 TU 0808
1408 2047
7 0233 W 0906
1506 2145
8 0335 TH 1001
1604 2238
9 04 36 F 1052
1700 2323
10 0529 SA 1139
1747

6.1 1 .0 6.7 1 .6
5.9
1 .1
6.7
1 .7
5.9 1.1 6.7 1 .5
6.0 0.9 6.9 1 .2
6.2 0.7 7.2 0.9
6.6 0.4 7.6

1 1 0009 SU 0614
1227 1832

0.6 7.1 0.1 7.9

12 0051 0.2 M 0656 7.5 1313 -0.1 1912 8.1

13 0133 0.0 TU 0736 7.9
1357 -0.3 1950 8.2

14 0215 -0.3 W 0816 8.1 1441 -0.3 2032 8.2

15 0257 -0.4 TH 0859 8.3
1527 -0.3 2114 8.1

20 0050 TU 0716
1339 2012
21 0158 W 0828 1451 2119
22 031 1 TH 0937
1603 2221
23 0423 F 1039 1707 2316
24 0527 SA 1136
1803

6.9 0.5 7.6 0.8
6.8 0.6 7.6 0.7
6.8 0.4 7.7 0.4
7.1 0.2 7.9 0.1
7.5 0.0 8.1

25 0008 -0.2 SU 0619 7.9
1227 -0.2 1851 8.2
26 0056 -0.4 M 0705 8.2 1317 -0.3 1933 8.2
27 0141 -0.4 TU 0746 8.3
1402 -0.2 2012 8.1
28 0222 -0.4 W 0827 8.3 1445 0.0 2046 7.8
29 0302 -0.2 TH 0903 8.1
1526 0.2 2123 7.5
30 0341 0.0 F 0939 7.9 1603 0.5 2158 7.1

TIME MERIDIAN 75 W. 0000 IS MIDNIGHT. 1200 IS NOON. HEIGHTS ARE RECKONED FROM THE DATUM OF SOUNDINRS ON CHARTS OF THE LOCALITY WHICH IS MEAN LOW WATER.

February 1977

31

SAVANNAH RIVFR ENTRANCE, GA., 1177 TIMES AND HEIGHTS OF HIGH AND LOW WATERS

OCTOBER

TIME HT.

TIME HT.

DAY

DAY

h.m. ft.

h.m. ft.

1 0419 0.3 16 0407 -0.4

SA 1016 7.6 SU 1019 8.6

1642 0.9

1651 0.0

2235 6.8

2237 7.5

2 0459 0.7 17 0459 -0.1

SU 1056 7.4

M 1117 8.3

1724

1 .2

1746 0.3

2314 6.5

2338 7.2

3 0541

1 .0 18 0558 0.3

M 1141

7.1

TU 1221

7.9

1810

1 .5

1850 0.6

4 0002 6.2

TU 0629

1 .3

1229 6.9

1903

1 .7

5 0052 W 0724
1321 2003

6.1 1 .4 6.8 1 .8

6 0148 6.1

TH 0825 1 .4

1420 6.8

2103

1 .6

7 0248 6.2

F 0925

1 .2

1517 7.0

2157

1 .3

8 0352 6.5 SA 1017 0.9
1615 7.2 2246 0.9

9 0449 7.0 SU 1107 0.6
1708 7.5 2331 0.5

10 0539 7.5 M 1157 0.2 1757 7.9

11 0016 0.1 TU 0627 8.0
1245 -0.1 1843 8.1
12 0102 -0.2 W 0709 8.5 1332 -0.4 1925 8.3
13 0146 -0.5 TH 0753 8.8
1421 -0.5 2009 8.3
14 0231 -0.6 F 0839 8.9 1509 -0.5 2054 8.1
15 0318 -0.6 SA 0926 8.8
1558 -0.3 2144 7.9

19 0042 7.0 W 0704 0.6 1329 7.7 1956 0.7

20 0153 6.9 TH 0816 0.7
1438 7.5 2101 0.6

21 0302 7.0 F 0924 0.6 1545 7.5
2201 0.4

22 0411 7.2 SA 1025 0.4
1649 7.6 2254 0.1

23 0510 7.6 SU 1118 0.2
1743 7.7 2342 -0.1

24 0603 M 1208 1828

7.9. 0.1 7.7

25 0028 -0.2 TU 0645 8.2
1254 0.0 1910 7.7

26 0110 -0.3 W 0723 8.3 1339 0.1 1946 7.6

27 0152 -0.2 TH 0758 8.2
1420 0.2 2020 7.4

28 0231 -0.1 F 0833 8.1 1458 0.3 2052 7.1

29 0309 0.1 SA 0907 7.9
1535 0.6 2126 6.9

30 0346 0.4 SU 0942 7.7
1614 0.8 2200 6.6

31 0426 0.6

M 1021 7.4

1653

1 .1

2240 6.4

NOVEMBER

TIMF HT.

TIME HT.

DAY

DAY

h.m. ft.

h.m. ft.

1 0504 0.9

TU 1103 7.2

1736

1 .3

2325 6.2

2 0551 W 1150
1823

1 .2 7.0 1 .4

3 0013 TH 0642
1241 1918

6.1 1 .3 6.9 1 .5

4 0108 F 0743
1333 2015

6.1 1 .4 6.8 1 .3

5 0209 SA 0844
1432 2111

6.3
1 .2 6.9 1 .0

6 0309 6.6 SU 0941 0.9
1527 7.0 2204 0.6

7 0409 7.1 M 1037 0.5
1627 7.3 2252 0.2

8 0505 7.7 TU 1128 0.1
1723 7.5 2342 -0.3

9 0558 8.2 W 1219 -0.3
1814 7.8

10 0030 -0.6 TH 0646 8.7
1310 -0.6 1902 8.0
11 0120 -0.9 F 0733 9.0 1401 -0.8 1948 8.0
12 0210 -1 .0 SA 0823 9.1
1453 -0.8 2039 8.0
13 0301 -1 .0 SU 0913 8.9
1544 -0.7 2131 7.7
14 0352 -0.8 M 1008 8.6 1637 -0.5 2227 7.4
15 0447 -0.4 TU 1106 8.2
1733 -0.2 2328 7.2

16 0546 0.0 W 1208 7.8 1831 0.1

1 7 0033 7.0

TH 0649 0.3

1 31 1

7.4

1934 0.2

18 01 39 6.9 F 0758 0.6 1416 7.2 2036 0.2

19 0245 6.9 SA 0904 0.6
1519 7.0 2133 0.1

20 0349 7.1 SU 1003 0.5
1621 6.9 2226 0.0

21 0446 7.3 M 1056 0.4 1 717 6.9 2315 -0.1

22 0537 7.5 TU 1 145 0.2
1803 6.9

23 0000 -0.2 W 0620 7.7 1231 0.2 1843 6.9
24 0041 -0.3 TH 0659 7.8
1315 0.1 1919 6.9
25 0123 -0.2 F 0733 7.8 1354 0.2 1954 6.8
26 0203 -0.2 SA 0808 7.8
1433 0.2 2027 6.7
27 0242 -0.1 SU 0841 7.6
1512 0.3 2059 6.5
28 0321 0.1 M 0915 7.5 1550 0.5 21 34 6.3
29 0358 0.3 TU 0952 7.3
1626 0.6 2211 6.2
30 0437 0.5 W 1032 7.1 1706 0.7 2253 6.1

DECEMBER

TIME HT.

TIME HT.

DAY

DAY

h.m. ft.

h.m. ft.

1 0520 0.7 TH 1115 6.9
1748 0.8 2340 6.1
2 0606 0.9 F 1202 6.8
1834 0.8

3 0031

6.2

SA 0703 0.9

1253 6.7

1930 0.7

4 0129 6.3 SU 0804 0.1
1348 6.6 2027 0.5

5 0227 6.6 M 0907 0.6
1446 6.7 2125 0.2

6 0330 7.0 TU 1004 0.3
1548 6.8 2217 -0.3

7 0433 7.5 W 1100 -0.1
1649 7.0 2312 -0.7

8 0531 8.0 TH 1155 -0.5
1747 7.3

9 0004 -1 .0 F 0627 8.4
1249 -0.8 1841 7.5
10 0059 -1 .3 SA 0718 8.7
1344 -1 .1 1934 7.6
11 0152 -1 .4 SU 0810 8.8
1438 -1.2 2026 7.6
12 0247 -1 .4 M 0902 8.7 1530 -1 .2 2120 7.5
13 0339 -1 .2 TU 0955 8.4
1621 -1 .1 2216 7.3
14 0435 -0.9 W 1051 8.0 1714 -0.8 2314 7.1
15 0530 -0.5 TH 1149 7.5
1807 -0.6

16 0015 6.9 F 0629 -0.1 1247 7.1 1906 -0.3
17 0114 6.7 SA 0731 0.3
1345 6.7 2003 -0.1
18 0214 6.6 SU 0834 0.4
1444 6.4 2059 -0.1
19 0313 6.6 M 0935 0.5 1545 6.2 2153 -0.1
20 0412 6.7 TU 1027 0.4
1641 6.1 2243 -0.2
21 0507 6.9 W 1117 0.3 1731 6.1 2327 -0.3
22 0552 7.0 TH 1204 0.2
1816 6.2

23 0012 -0.3 F 0635 7.2 1248 0.1 1854 6.2

24 0056 -0.4 SA 0712 7.3
1329 0.0 1930 6.3

25 0138 -0.4 SU 0745 7.3
1410 0.0 2004 6.2

26 0218 -0.4 M 0819 7.3 1449 0.0 2037 6.2

27 0256 -0.3 TU 0853 7.2
1525 0.0 2110 6.2

28 0334 -0.2 W 0928 7.1 1600 0.1 2146 6.1

29 0414 -0.1 TH 1005 7.0
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31 0537 C.2 SA 1130 6.7
1757 0.1

TIME MERIDIAN 75 W. 0000 IS MIDNIGHT. 1200 IS NOON. HEIGHTS ARE RECKONED FROM THE DATUM OF SOUNDINGS ON CHARTS OF THE LOCALITY WHICH IS MEAN LOW WATER.

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Outdoors ip Georgia

Letters
to tl?e Editor
There is bound to be a lot of time, thought, energy and know-how spent in compiling Outdoors in Georgia, as this is truly a well done publication. The one story alone on your friend
and my friend, Ed Dodd is worth the
price of an annual subscription. This brings to mind a thought I
have had in mind as a suggestion to you for a long time. Namely, a '"binder" for Outdoors in Georgia. It doesn't have to be an elaborate one, but one that would reflect on the splendid publication that it is made
to contain. I'm thinking in terms of a binder that would hold 12 issues.
Too often I read with interest one or more articles in Outdoors in Geor-
gia and lay it aside with the thought of referring to it again only to find it has been misplaced or lost. Even when I complete a publication, it is
too beautiful and has too much in-
formation to throw it away.
You and your staff have my best
wishes for your continued success with Outdoors in Georgia.
J. Larry Kleckley
We have considered the idea, hut
abandoned it due to the cost factor.
Congratulations on the September issue devoted to the Endangered Species of Georgia. With regard to Bachman's Warbler, readers might be interested in some additional information. Although the bird probably nested in Georgia, the record of a nest of Bachman's Warbler found on 24 June 1908 near Savannah is erroneous. Arthur T. Wayne, the South Carolina ornithologist that found at least 35 nests of Bachman's Warbler and discovered the first nest
of Swainson's Warbler known to sci-
ence, identified the eggs from the alleged Bachman's nest from Savannah as belonging to Swainson's War-
bler (see Auk 29:105, 1912). The popular hypothesis that the
cutting of virgin bottomlands in the

Southeast was primarily responsible for the demise of Bachman's Warbler is difficult to defend. Re-exami-
nation of early records of nest sites and the reconstruction of land use patterns in the South Carolina
swamp where Wayne found 35 nests
in 1906-1919 indicate the species
nested in the earlier stages of forest succession. Thus, it is possible that
timber harvests in the 1880-1920 period were beneficial to the species.
Robert G. Hooper Research Wildlife Biologist U.S. Department of Agriculture
Forest Service

Your articles on Land Reclamation in the October issue and on Endangered Species in the September issue of Outdoors in Georgia are really outstanding. You are to be commended for your good coverage of these two important subjects.
Cecil R. Phillips Executive Director
The Georgia Conservancy
GA Atlanta,
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I look forward to receiving your
magazine every month. I am some-

what of a novice "fisherwoman" and

have learned a great deal from your

My magazine.

children enjoy the

pictures and we keep the copies for

many months to refer to them re-

garding camp sites, fishing lures, etc.

Thank you.

Carol F. Jarrett

While visiting my relatives, the
Rooks' of Jackson and Flovilla's in
Butts County recently, my husband
and I both caught an 8 lb. bass in Jackson Lake. Plus some 3 and 4 pounders. Lovely country you have there. We'll be back!
Saw your magazine at the home of
my brother, Charles Rooks, Jr., and
felt I must have it.
Mrs. William C. Grady Oak Lawn, Illinois

I just received the October issue of Outdoors in Georgia. It is truly one of the most interesting and highest quality magazines I've seen.
Thanks for putting us on your
mailing list.
Dwight M. Treadway
State Conservationist
U.S. Department of Agriculture Soil Conservation Service
GA Atlanta,

To thank you all for such a spe-

cial magazine. In a class with the

National Geographic.

Sure hope you tell the Farm Bu-

reau they can't market that Chinese

We fish in Georgia.

don't need more

problems.

Do you possibly have any more
prints of Mel Wolfe's buck in the autumn woods? It would be perfect in
my son's new home.

Frances Stone
GA Thomasville,

MAGAZINE PRICES GO UP
In March subscription rates for Outdoors in Georgia will be raised. The new rates will be: $5.00 for one year, $8.00 for two years, and $9.00 for three years. In addition, the six month subscription offer will be dropped. All new subscriptions postmarked before March 1, 1977 will be processed at the old rates.
The decision to raise the rates was not made lightly. The same infla-
tionary spiral which has affected the business community has affected Outdoors in Georgia. In the face of rising costs it has become necessary to increase prices if the quality of the magazine is to be maintained.

February 1977

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