Due to severe flooding in northwest Tennessee, the Tennessee Fish and Wildlife Commission will consider closing portions of Lake and Dyer counties for this weekend’s Young Sportsman Deer Hunt.
A special called meeting of the Tennessee Fish and Wildlife Commission will be held via conference call on Thursday, at 11 a.m. (CST). The purpose of the meeting will be to discuss the flooding in areas along the Mississippi River in West Tennessee and how it impacts this weekend’s scheduled two-day Young Sportsman Deer Hunt.
The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency is proposing to close all lands, both private and public, to deer hunting west of Tennessee Highway 78 from the Kentucky state line in Lake County to the Obion River Bridge in Dyer County and west of the Obion River from the Highway 78 bridge to the Mississippi River on Jan. 9-10.
For those persons wishing to make comments regarding the situation, they may be sent by email to TWRA Public Information Officer, Doug Markham, at doug.markham@tn.gov.
Interested members of the public and media representatives wishing to attend the conference call and listen to the proceedings should be seated by 11 a.m. in the TWRA’s Wildlife and Forestry Division’s conference room Nashville office, or any of three regional offices located in Jackson, Crossville, and Morristown. The Nashville office is located in the Ellington Agricultural Center at 5107 Edmondson Pike.