Arkansas Game and Fish

Longtime conservationists Livia and George Dunklin were honored by Ducks Unlimited, the Arkansas Game and Fish, Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders and other state conservation leaders March 3 in Little Rock. George Dunklin’s contributions to Ducks Unlimited are both vast and …

Photos courtesy of AGFC Doug Schoenrock has a lot in common with the people he is tasked with leading since his April installment as the 20th director of the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission. Like the 19 agency leaders before …

FEATURE IMAGE: The once plentiful black bear population in Arkansas nearly disappeared by 1927 but has since rebounded. During the first half of the 1800s, as a nod to its prodigious population of Louisiana bruins, Arkansas earned one its earliest, …

Located at 2800 Graham Road in Jacksonville, the AGFF Jacksonville Shooting Sports Complex is the largest of its kind in the state and is home to 14 trap fields and three skeet overlays. This year, the Jacksonville Parks and Recreation …

Women interested in learning more about the outdoors may want to take a look at the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission’s Event Calendar for the last weekend of March. The agency’s Becoming an Outdoors-Woman Program will be hosting a multitude …

What is an influencer? Simply put, it is one who wields influence, no social media account needed. They are the people, be they civil leaders, CEOs, or media personalities, who see something they want to do and have the skills, …

Visitors to the J.B. and Johnelle Hunt Family Ozark Highlands Nature Center will see some new additions in the coming weeks, supported by the Ozark Natural Sciences Center, the Walton Family Foundation and the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission. Thanks …

  Arkansas has reached a new landmark in the return of black bears, according to Arkansas Game and Fish Commissioner Austin Booth after the AGFC recently GPS collared a bear for the first time ever. Black bears have experienced a …

U.S. Senators John Boozman (R-AR), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, and Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), Chairwoman, will hold a field hearing Friday in Arkansas to gain input from Natural State agricultural producers as the process …

This following is an update to an article originally published April 29, 2022. The Arkansas Game and Fish Foundation announced earlier this year its 2022 Arkansas Outdoor Hall of Fame inductees and the recipient of its Legacy Award. Honorees will …