• News of a California brown pelican in Georgia – a first on the Atlantic Coast.
• Conservation on the Toccoa River, the second part of a State Wildlife Action Plan series.
• Details of a birding big day that benefited the state Wildlife Conservation Fund.
• How DNR researchers developed a low-cost way to map underwater stream habitat.

Read the complete issue here.

Related content:

• Mulberries get no respect (but they should). Terry W. Johnson's complete "Out my backdoor" column.

American Fisheries Society journal articles by DNR's Adam Kaeser and Thom Litts on stream habitat mapping:

• "An assessment of deadhead logs and large woody debris using side-scan sonar and field surveys in streams of southwest Georgia Dept. of Natural Resources" (pdf)
• "A novel technique for mapping habitat in navigable streams using low-cost side-scan sonar" (pdf)