Bokker deals with the ups and downs of water at Raft Creek
Aug. 21, 2020
GEORGETOWN – It’s been an interesting summer around the Steve N. Wilson Raft Creek Bottoms Wildlife Management Area. In June, with the White and Cache rivers running over their banks, Arkansas Game and Fish Commission habitat biologist Jacob Bokker and his crew couldn’t get into the oversaturated bottoms to get to their moist-soil preparation for the upcoming waterfowl season.
Director, biologists mull changes needed in flooded Hurricane Lake WMA
July 22, 2020
BALD KNOB – Kayakers would have found the South Unit of Henry Gray Hurricane Lake Wildlife Management Area inviting in June. In fact, Arkansas Game and Fish Commission Wildlife Management Division biologists had placed blue markers on trees that would be easily recognizable to paddlers who use the AGFC’s water trails around the state.
Arkansas Wildlife Waterfowl Report
Feb. 5, 2020
An enormous number of snows, blues and Ross's geese were seen in a field in Arkansas County not far from Brett Morgan Halowell Reservoir last week. The Light Goose Conservation Order for hunting these geese is in effect through Feb. 7 and from Feb. 9-April 25 throughout Arkansas.
Arkansas Wildlife Waterfowl Report
Jan. 29, 2020
More habitat thanks to heavy rainfall in mid-January may have pushed more mallards northward into the Black River/Upper White River area in the latest AGFC aerial waterfowl survey.
Arkansas Wildlife Waterfowl Report
Jan. 22, 2020
Mallard numbers estimated in the midwinter aerial survey by AGFC waterfowl biologists were about half the total number of ducks counted, nearly 700,000. That 50% figure of total ducks is down from the typical average of 70% in the midwinter count in Arkansas.
Arkansas Wildlife Waterfowl Report
Jan. 15, 2020
Pintails make up a good portion of the ducks counting in the annual midwinter survey of waterfowl in Arkansas. The total ducks were up significantly from mid-December's count, but mallards are below what is expected for the first half of January.
Arkansas Wildlife Waterfowl Report
Jan. 8, 2020
AGFC biologists have noted more shovelers (pictured is a male northern shoveler) and pintails in their aerial observations over the Arkansas Delta, indicating they are returning and headed back north.