Arkansas Game and Fish Commission

Duck hunters visiting Arkansas’ famous waterfowl-focused public greentree reservoirs may see some changes on three of the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission’s wildlife management areas this year. George H. Dunklin Jr. Bayou Meto WMA, Henry Gray Hurricane Lake WMA and…

The Arkansas Economic Development Commission’s (AEDC) Division of Rural Services recently announced that it will award more than $769,000 to Arkansas schools to support conservation education programs in the 2021-22 school year. Funding comes from wildlife fines collected by the…

Like many lifelong duck hunters, Arkansas Game and Fish Commission Chairman Bobby Martin got his start hunting just about every Wildlife Management Area or river bottom that would hold a duck in east Arkansas. Since age 9, Martin has chased…

Keith “Catfish” Sutton, a prolific wildlife journalist, will be inducted into the Legends of the Outdoors Hall of Fame August 21 at the John A. and Genny Morris Conference Center in Springfield, Mo. Sutton’s first wildlife article was published in…

The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission has appointed Austin Booth as the 19th director of the organization. Current director Pat Fitts announced his retirement effective June 30, 2021 at the end of the fiscal year November 2020. Through an extensive…

On Wednesday, I traveled to Poinsett County for the dedication of the state’s newest water trail. Today I’d like to share a bit of the story behind the Sunken Lands Water Trail, which was created by the Arkansas Game and…

Your line is spooled, rods all accounted for, and your tackle box restocked. Your bobbers, weights and lures are all organized to the color. There might have been some winter-weather-induced boredom behind that Marie Kondo-esque tidiness to your tackle, and…

Most of us found ourselves in a similar predicament almost exactly one year ago: The world was shut down and with it many of our day-to-day experiences. Our homes became our impromptu office spaces; dinner at a restaurant turned to…

Duck hunting is one of the great cultural traditions of Arkansas, and it also pumps a lot of money into our economy. Stuttgart and Arkansas County are known as the duck-hunting capital of the world. Every Thanksgiving, Stuttgart hosts the…

The pandemic drove us outdoors, where social distance is easily accommodated and the crazy twists and turns of 2020 more easily forgotten. And while restaurants and shops that typically entail indoor interactions at close quarters have been significantly impacted, the…