Sheriff’s department, department of conservation partnering on firing range By Lisa Rogers Times Staff Writer June 16, 2002 It's important for people to have a safe place to shoot pistols and rifles. That's the main reason the Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources is partnering with the Etowah County Sheriff's Department to open the old Goodyear firing range to the public, said Ray Metzler, hunter education coordinator of the Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries Division. A grant was obtained to buy the property on Owls Hollow Road where a private range already had been, Metzler said. There already are dividing...