#07–06 January 8, 2007

Wildlife, Fisheries Committee will meet Jan. 9 in Columbia

The Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries Advisory Committee to the S.C. Natural Resources Board will meet 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 9 in Room 335 (board room) at the Rembert Dennis Building at 1000 Assembly St. in Columbia.

The meeting is open to the public. Anyone with business for the advisory committee, requests for the agenda, or directions to the meeting location should contact Susan Johnson at the S.C. Department of Natural Resources (DNR) in Columbia at (803) 734-3889. Stephen L. Davis of Greenwood, a member of the S.C. Natural Resources Board, is chairman of the Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries Advisory Committee.

Items scheduled on the agenda for the Columbia meeting of the Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries Advisory Committee include:

• Advisory Committee member comments
  
  
• Constituent comments
  
  
• Hamilton Ridge and Woodbury Wildlife Management Areas
  
  
• Proposed alligator harvest season
  
  
• State lakes’ status and future        
  
  
• Santee Cooper striped bass public meetings
  
  
• 2006 Wild Turkey Brood Survey
  
  
• Legislative update

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