High school scholars plant conservation roots in Pine Bluff Harbor
Aug. 9, 2023
PINE BLUFF — The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission, in cooperation with the American Fisheries Society, led 30 prospective future fisheries biologists in establishing more than 300 yards of aquatic habitat in the Arkansas River in July.
Leftover WMA Deer Hunt Permit sale August 4
Aug. 2, 2023
LITTLE ROCK – The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission will sell 106 WMA Deer Hunt Permits that were left over after this year’s application and draw period this week. Permits will be available for purchase beginning 8 a.m., Friday, Aug. 4.
Biologists band together to monitor Arkansas’s Canada goose population
Aug. 2, 2023
ROGERS — Arkansas Game and Fish Commission biologists teamed up in late June with several partners in northwest Arkansas, including the Army Corps of Engineers, Beaver Watershed Alliance and Northwest Arkansas Land Trust to herd and band roughly 280 Canada geese that had taken up residence on Beaver Lake.
Celebrate Shooting Sports Month with Fiocchi and the AGFC
Aug. 1, 2023
MAYFLOWER — The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission’s Fiocchi Shooting Sports Complex, formerly called the Dr. James E. Moore Jr. Camp Robinson Firing Range, is hosting a variety of events and promotions in celebration of August being National Shooting Sports Month.
Sweat the details for summer angling safety
July 31, 2023
LITTLE ROCK – The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission often talks about caring for fish during hot weather to prevent their mortality, but we’re just as concerned with angler health during the dog days of summer. The three most common issues AGFC game wardens run across during the heat of summer are life jacket use, overexposure to the sun and indulging in too many alcoholic beverages.
Mena’s Crawford honored as AGFC Game Warden of the Year
July 26, 2023
NORTH LITTLE ROCK – As Major Brian Aston of the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission read off a three-minute list of some of the more amazing accomplishments of the officer he would announce Tuesday as the 2023 Sgt. Monty Carmikle Arkansas Game Warden of the Year, it struck some people in the audience that it was a wonder the winner would have time to attend the presentation, much less have much time away from his work.
Major access expansion complete at Millwood Lake
July 26, 2023
ASHDOWN — Anglers visiting Millwood Lake in Southwest Arkansas now have a fresh new facility to launch their boats, thanks to the completion of the first phase of planned improvements at Yarborough Landing in Little River County.