Outdoor recreation contributed nearly 40,000 jobs and $3.5 billion to Arkansas’ gross domestic product in 2021, but state officials believe that is just a fraction of what the industry can accomplish. read more >
The Arkansas Game & Fish Commission isn’t rushing the search for a home for its next flagship shooting range in northwest Arkansas. read more >
The director of the Arkansas Game & Fish Commission talks about efforts to rehabilitate duck habitat, getting agency revenue right and appealing to nonhunters. read more >
Funds for the grants come from wildlife fines collected by the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission. read more >
The Little Rock marketing firm also won silver medals for work with the Little Rock Venture Center and Sport Clips, the national chain of hair cutters. read more >
Jones, an avid duck and turkey hunter, replaces former commissioner Bennie Westphal. read more >
More than 135 years ago, a group of Little Rock businessmen banded together to form a hunting club on about 2,000 acres of bottomland woods in south Pulaski County. read more >
Arkansas game officials are planning to create shallower wetlands in some of the state’s most popular public duck hunting grounds. The objective is letting red oak trees dry out and recover from an H2O overdose in recent growing seasons. read more >
The first new house built in the neighborhood immediately east of downtown Little Rock since 1995 is occupied, and scores of apartments will be ready within weeks. read more >
Stone Ward, the downtown Little Rock advertising agency, has picked up a national award for its “Go Fish” campaign for the Arkansas Game & Fish Commission. read more >
With the collapse of a $16.5 million land sale that drew opposition from Arkansas legislators, the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture is searching for ways to replace the lost revenue. read more >
It’s an extraordinarily rare day that a deer hunt is mounted on a college campus in the middle of the state’s biggest city. But Little Rock’s Cammack Campus of the University of Arkansas isn’t a normal collegiate setting, and the men downing the deer weren’t permit-toting hunters. read more >
Arkansas Game and Fish Commission Director Pat Fitts announced Wednesday that he will retire, effective June 30. read more >
The FBI has been asking questions about the planned sale of 6,300 acres by the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture, a deal that has drawn allegations that bid manipulation produced a lower sale price and a higher broker commission. read more >
Millie Ward doesn’t hunt, but she does have a fishing license, and the Little Rock advertising exec’s work for the Arkansas Game & Fish Commission is pushing other Arkansans to join her outdoors. read more >
Feral hogs damage Arkansas farms and equipment, and it doesn’t take 30-50 to cause real trouble. read more >
Jami Fisher is the first woman to serve as CFO in the 103-year history of the Arkansas Game & Fish Commission, a point of professional pride for her. read more >
Reports that there were “no ducks” in the Arkansas Delta this hunting season were greatly exaggerated, but industry leaders are concerned nonetheless. read more >
Arkansas loves bass fishing, and bass fishermen — “anglers” when they’re using a rod and a reel — love Arkansas right back. read more >
Nearly a dozen years have passed since John Burkhalter embarked on his Little Rock marina odyssey along the Arkansas River. Site work for the Rock City Yacht Club is finally in full swing, and the local businessman-developer expects to host the first wave of boating enthusiasts this summer. read more >
