Here are the major changes in hunting regulations announced by the Georgia DNR.• Fewer licenses are needed, fees increased. • Ten new counties are now open for hunting alligators, quota only: Baldwin, Columbia, Hancock, Harris, Jones, McDuffie, Monroe, Talbot, Upson and Warren counties. Liberty, Long, McIntosh and most coastal counties are already in the alligator zone. • The central Georgia bear season is now the second Saturday in January. The south Georgia bear season is adding a three-day bear season the second to last weekend in September. • The lower coastal plains will have an additional 21 “deer either sex” days. • Hunters can now report their harvest through the GA Outdoors app when your phone has no service.
Major changes to 2017-18 hunting season regulations