{"id":11980,"date":"2016-11-06T08:00:03","date_gmt":"2016-11-06T14:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/?p=11980"},"modified":"2016-11-05T06:42:40","modified_gmt":"2016-11-05T11:42:40","slug":"with-drought-creating-dry-conditions-sportsmen-asked-to-be-careful-outside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/2016\/11\/06\/with-drought-creating-dry-conditions-sportsmen-asked-to-be-careful-outside\/","title":{"rendered":"With Drought Creating Dry Conditions, Sportsmen Asked To Be Careful Outside"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-46127\" title=\"Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency - TWRA\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/tennessee-wildlife-resources-agency.gif\" alt=\"Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency - TWRA\" width=\"140\" height=\"137\"><strong>Nashville, TN<\/strong> &#8211; The dry conditions across Tennessee has created a tinderbox where fires can be accidentally set, which has led the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency to urge sportsmen be especially cautious as the popular muzzle-loading season opens statewide.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are a lot of fires being fought right now and we have even had some on our wildlife management areas, especially in East Tennessee, so we are urging sportsmen to be careful as they get outside and enjoy their hunt\u201d noted Mark Gudlin, the chief of wildlife and forestry for the TWRA.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Drought.jpg\"  class=\"thickbox no_icon\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-364719\" title=\"Drought\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Drought-480x270.jpg\" alt=\"Drought\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\"><\/a><!--more-->Hunters who camp out might want to consider not building a campfire, or if they do make sure it is closely watched and the space adjacent to it is cleared of dry debris such as l leaves or twigs.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey also need to be careful if they take a shot with their muzzleloader and then place their rifle on the ground,\u201d said Gudlin.&nbsp; \u201cSometimes those rifles can be pretty hot and you want to be careful where you put them once a shot is taken.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Whether you hunt on one of TWRA\u2019s wildlife management areas or on private land, Gudlin stresses that this drought has made the woods and fields of Tennessee tinderbox dry.&nbsp; \u201cWe hope everyone enjoys their time outside, but please be careful and practice safety from the beginning to the end of a trip,\u201d Gudlin said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nashville, TN &#8211; The dry conditions across Tennessee has created a tinderbox where fires can be accidentally set, which has led the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency to urge sportsmen be especially cautious as the popular muzzle-loading season opens statewide. &#8220;There are a lot of fires being fought right now and we have even had some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[2049,6895,3003,107,2668,11341,5471,284,261,608,973],"class_list":["post-11980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","tag-campfire","tag-drought","tag-east-tennessee","tag-featured","tag-fire","tag-mark-gudlin","tag-muzzleloader","tag-nashville-tn","tag-tennessee","tag-tennessee-wildlife-resources-agency","tag-twra"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11980"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11981,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11980\/revisions\/11981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}