Applications for this season’s alligator hunt are due by midnight July 31. Only 850 applicants will be selected for the 2013 hunting season, which runs from September 7 to October 6. In 2012, 850 hunters harvested 247 alligators, at an average length of 99 inches. Visit www.georgiawildlife.com/hunting/alligator for more information on how to apply.

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Take a Halloween Hike at the Chattahoochee Nature Center on Friday through Sunday and meet animals along the way. (Courtesy of Chattahoochee Nature Center)

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The renovation of Jekyll Island's Great Dunes golf course includes nine holes designed by Walter Travis in the 1920s for the members of the Jekyll Island Club. Several holes that were part of the original layout where located along the beach and were bulldozed in the 1950s.(Photo by Austin Kaseman)

Credit: Photo by Austin Kaseman