{"id":481769,"date":"2026-02-21T10:50:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T10:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/481769\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T10:50:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T10:50:13","slug":"buffalo-wander-onto-federal-land-near-clarks-hill-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/481769\/","title":{"rendered":"Buffalo wander onto federal land near Clarks Hill Lake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">CLARKS HILL LAKE, Ga. (WRDW\/WAGT) &#8211; A small group of buffalo spent some time relaxing Friday near Clarks Hill Lake. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The tagged buffalo were spotted Friday morning at the Clarks Hill Wildlife Management Area. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"Some privately owned buffalo got into the Clarks Hill Wildlife Management Area on Feb. 20, 2026.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/G23QTSMBPVEPBLQL4CODBPOQ5M.jpg\" width=\"980\" height=\"551\" \/>Some privately owned buffalo got into the Clarks Hill Wildlife Management Area on Feb. 20, 2026.(Contributed)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The land near Clarks Hill Lake is owned by the federal government but managed by the Georgia Department of Natural Resources.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-fluid\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/JJE4UE4HJZGTVNIXDZXWBOBKPY.jpg\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The state agency worked with the Wilkes County Sheriff\u2019s Office to identify them as belonging to a nearby land owner. The owner was working to retrieve them Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Although there are a few wild bison herds in the West, most buffalo are part of commercial herds on private land.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 WRDW\/WAGT. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CLARKS HILL LAKE, Ga. (WRDW\/WAGT) &#8211; A small group of buffalo spent some time relaxing Friday near Clarks&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":481770,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201],"class_list":["post-481769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}