Youth and veteran’s duck hunt Saturday
Dec. 1, 2021
LITTLE ROCK — The first segment of Arkansas’s regular duck season has come to a close. But that doesn’t mean all of the shooting has stopped. Thanks to special rules enacted by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission, duck hunters 15 and younger, as well as active-duty military personnel and veterans, may hunt waterfowl during Arkansas’s third annual Special Youth and Active Duty Military and Veteran Waterfowl Hunt Dec. 4.
Arkansas youth hunters check more than 800 turkeys
April 14, 2021
LITTLE ROCK — Strong winds may have dampened the sound of some gobblers last weekend, but there was no dampening the spirit of the youths participating in the 2021 Arkansas turkey youth hunt. Hunters 6 to 15 years old managed to harvest 813 birds between Saturday and Sunday’s hunts.
Arkansas Wildlife Waterfowl Report
Feb. 3, 2021
The special Youth, Veterans and Active Military waterfowl hunts, including the second one this season on Saturday, Feb. 6, offer a great opportunity for mentoring young hunters. Photo by Mike Wintroath.
Twenty-three drawn for Arkansas’s 2020 public land elk hunt
June 25, 2020
JASPER — The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission has selected 23 Arkansans to participate in this year’s annual public land elk hunt.
Young hunters check 882 during youth turkey hunt
April 15, 2020
LITTLE ROCK — Despite a major cold front and Easter services for many families last weekend, the annual Arkansas youth turkey hunt showed a 27 percent increase from last year. Hunters under the age of 16 checked 882 birds during the two-day hunt to open the 2020 spring turkey season.
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
Dec. 4, 2019
Saturday is the first of two Special Youth Waterfowl Hunt days during this season, but it also marks the first of two Active Duty Military and Veterans Waterfowl Hunt days.