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Arkansas youth turkey hunters bag 1,100 birds in two-day hunt
LITTLE ROCK — Thousands of young hunters took to the woods last weekend for Arkansas’s annual youth turkey hunt, taking advantage of a bright, sunny opening morning followed by a moderately cloudy...
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FORT SMITH — The Arkansas Game and Fish Foundation and Arkansas Game and Fish Commission along with community leaders met at Chaffee Crossing April 10 to announce a $500,000 contribution from Fort...
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Lake Conway cleanups begin April 18
MAYFLOWER — The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission will host the first of three community-wide cleanups for Lake Conway from 8 a.m.-8 p.m. April 18-21 along the shoreline of the 6,700-acre lake in...
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Arkansas Wildlife Weekly Fishing Report
April 11, 2024 Jim Harris Managing Editor Arkansas Wildlife Magazine This youngster, the granddaughter of angler Tim Head, is ecstatic at catching a slab crappie at Overcup Lake in Conway County this...
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AGFC plans Lake Wilhelmina renovation
MENA — The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission will begin a controlled drawdown of 66-year-old Lake Wilhelmina in Polk County, beginning Aug. 1 to make extensive repairs to failing infrastructure and...
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Commission considers additional changes to 2024-25 regulations, waterfowl...
LITTLE ROCK — The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission heard the first reading of additional hunting and fishing regulations proposals for the 2024-25 hunting and fishing seasons. During the 2024...
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Flooding closes Sulphur River access
FOUKE — The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission’s boating access to the Sulphur River at Smith Park in Miller County is temporarily closed due to heavy releases from Wright Patman Lake in Texas. Nearly...
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Arkansas bullfrog season underway
LITTLE ROCK – If you’re looking for a reason to be happy this Tax Day, you might want to celebrate with one of Arkansas’s quirkiest outdoor occasions. Bullfrog season is open and will run through Dec....
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New AGFC education chief already knows the territory
Almost a year ago when Arkansas Wildlife staff first met Mary Beth Hatch she was wearing waders and leading a school principal, a teacher and a group of North Little Rock Academy students through the...
View ArticleAGFC Commissioner Meeting Notice
April 16, 2024 You are hereby notified that Commissioners of the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission will meet on the following date and times to consider any business that may be brought before the...
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AGFC, UAPB tune in to trout movements on Little Red River
HEBER SPRINGS — With thousands of brown trout swimming in Arkansas tailwaters, it’s hard to single out one as special, so the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission picked 150. That’s the number of brown...
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Arkansas Wildlife Weekly Fishing Report
April 18, 2024 Jim Harris Managing Editor Arkansas Wildlife Magazine An angler from Columbia, Missouri, named Stan (no last name provided) landed this nice 24-inch brown trout on the White River near...
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Flying Fisherman: Dive into aerial angling with the osprey
Springtime and fishing in The Natural State go hand-in-hand. Whether you’re wading a trout stream or jigging for crappie on an oxbow lake, be on the lookout for a migratory raptor that may cause a bit...
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Arkansas forests and wetlands to see nearly $5 million through Inflation...
ATLANTA — Publicly owned wetlands and wildlife habitat in Arkansas will see additional funding for conservation efforts according to a press release issued April 18 by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife...
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Regional Qualifiers for Youth Shooting Sports Start Friday
JACKSONVILLE — Qualifying for 64-team state tournaments in both senior and junior divisions in the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission’s Youth Shooting Sports championships begins this week with the...
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Family and Community Program Says ‘Hola’ to Northwest Area Anglers
SPRINGDALE — Cinco de Mayo (May 5) is a major holiday among the Hispanic community, celebrating a Mexican Army victory over the French in the Battle of Puebla in 1862. The holiday feeling will kick...
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Arkansas Wildlife Weekly Fishing Report
April 25, 2024 Jim Harris Managing Editor Arkansas Wildlife Magazine Before we let the action from a few weeks back fall by the wayside, we wanted to highlight this impressive 30-inch brown trout that...
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Building big bass and one big cat featured in May/June Arkansas Wildlife...
LITTLE ROCK — Each issue of Arkansas Wildlife magazine, a publication of the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission, is loaded with articles readers won’t find anywhere else, and the May/June issue is...
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Apply for an Arkansas Elk Hunting Permit
LITTLE ROCK — Hunters interested in pursuing Arkansas’s largest big game animal can apply for a limited hunting permit draw from 8 a.m. May 1 through 11:59 p.m. June 1 at the AGFC’s licensing site...
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Leave ‘abandoned’ wildlife where you find it
LITTLE ROCK – Many species of wildlife have their young in spring, and many well-meaning Arkansans regularly call the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission to report deer fawns and other young wildlife...
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