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🐿️ Get outside between April 26-29 and document any wildlife you see.
City Nature Challenge is a friendly competition between urban areas all around the world to see who can make the most nature observations.
👀 how to get involved: bit.ly/441EEbc

AGFC, UAPB tune in to trout movements on Little Red River
HEBER SPRINGS — With thousands of brown trout swimming in Arkansas tailwaters, it’s hard to single out one as special, so the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission picked 150. That’s the number of ...bit.ly/3QdgNQf

Myron Means talks about Mountain Lions, Bears and Arkansas Conservation on podcast Off The Clock with B Scott. 🎧 bit.ly/4b6iEyh

New AGFC education chief already knows the territory
Almost a year ago when Arkansas Wildlife staff first met Mary Beth Hatch she was wearing waders and leading a school principal, a teacher and a group of North Little Rock Academy students through ...bit.ly/3xGpxrJ

Arkansas Wildlife Weekly Fishing Report
April 18, 2024
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An angler from Columbia, Missouri, landed this 24” brown trout on the White River near Calico Rock. Anglers have been catching numerous brown trout of 18” or more. Rainbows are also biting nicely.

AGFC plans Lake Wilhelmina renovation
MENA — The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission will begin a controlled drawdown of 66-year-old Lake Wilhelmina in Polk County, beginning Aug. 1 to make extensive repairs to failing infrastructure and improve the ...bit.ly/3UiPhTM

Lake Conway cleanups begin April 18
MAYFLOWER — The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission will host the first of three community-wide cleanups for Lake Conway from 8 a.m.-8 p.m. April 18-21 along the shoreline of the 6,700-acre lake in Faulkner County.
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Fort Chaffee Redevelopment Authority contributes $500,000 to ‘Reimagine the River Valley’
FORT SMITH — The Arkansas Game and Fish Foundation and Arkansas Game and Fish Commission along with community leaders met at Chaffee Crossing April 10 to announce ...bit.ly/4aZxoPv

🐸 Arkansas bullfrog season underway
LITTLE ROCK – If you’re looking for a reason to be happy this Tax Day, you might want to celebrate with one of Arkansas’s quirkiest outdoor occasions. Bullfrog season is open and will run through Dec. 31, 2024.
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🐢 Get outside between April 26-29 and document any wildlife you see.
City Nature Challenge is a friendly competition between urban areas all around the world to see who can make the most nature observations.
👀 how to get involved: bit.ly/441EEbc

Flooding closes Sulphur River access
FOUKE — The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission’s boating access to the Sulphur River at Smith Park in Miller County is temporarily closed due to heavy releases from Wright Patman Lake in Texas. Nearly 2 feet of water …bit.ly/3TYb55z

Commission considers additional changes to 2024-25 regulations, waterfowl season dates
LITTLE ROCK — The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission heard the first reading of additional hunting and fishing regulations proposals for the 2024-25 hunting and ...bit.ly/3VUxjIk

Arkansas Wildlife Weekly Fishing Report
April 11, 2024
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This youngster, the granddaughter of angler Tim Head, is ecstatic at catching a slab crappie at Overcup Lake in Conway County this past week. The crappie weighed 2.3 pounds.

Arkansas youth turkey hunters bag 1,100 birds in two-day hunt 🦃
LITTLE ROCK — Thousands of young hunters took to the woods last weekend for Arkansas’s annual youth turkey hunt, taking advantage of a bright, sunny opening morning followed by a ...ttps://bit.ly/3JgB9UL

Join the AGFC Commission Meeting LIVE.
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“Arkansas Wild: The Story of Trout Tourism on the Little Red” premieres tomorrow,
Thurs., April 11 @ 7 p.m. on Arkansas PBS. The film focuses on trout fishing and Arkansas tourism, but also emphasizes conservation. bit.ly/3xwIHA2

AGFC discovers invasive apple snails in live crawfish shipments
LITTLE ROCK — The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission needs the public’s help in preventing the spread of giant apple snails, an invasive aquatic species native to South America, recently ...bit.ly/4akHoml