As Seen in the Sep-Oct Shooting Sportsman Magazine: “Snowbirds and No Words”   I sat up in my layout blind in an Arkansas mud field, amidst a thousand snow goose decoys.  The CEO of G&H Decoys from Henrietta Oklahoma sat up in the blind next to me and offered me a cigar.  Ray had driven in the night before and had been asleep in his blind snoring loudly 5 minutes before the legal shooting light.  Wide awake now he contentedly puffed on a victory cigar.    Ray and I found ourselves in ...

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. – (Sept. 14, 2022) Thirty volunteers, mostly from the Arkansas Backcountry Hunters and Anglers and Natural State Overland, collected 50 bags of trash and 140 tires from a dump site in Perry County on the Ouachita National Forest, Sept. 10. The event coincided with the Great Arkansas Cleanup, which began September 10 and continues through October. The Jessieville-Winona-Fourche Ranger District provided a truck and trailer to collect the tires and partnered with Perry County ...

What is SCORP?  Per federal regulations, each state must complete a statewide comprehensive outdoor recreation plan every five years to receive resource appropriations from the National Land and Water Conservation Fund. These funds, distributed per state, are then used to increase outdoor recreation access and participation via state approved projects. Each state must submit this plan to the National Park Service to meet requirements for funds distribution. Part of this plan includes outdoor ...

We didn’t really need a reason to celebrate on St. Patrick’s Day, but public land hunters in Arkansas can raise a toast to a long-term management agreement for the Pine Tree Research Station WDA. During the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission’s monthly meeting on March 17, Commissioners authorized Director Austin Booth to sign a 10-year cooperative agreement with the University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture for the Pine Tree Research Station WDA. The new agreement will allow the two ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is proposing to expand public hunting and fishing opportunities within the National Wildlife Refuge System within the Southeast. We encourage hunters and anglers to join us in commenting on this proposed expansion. Nationally, the increases would enhance public access to 2.1 million acres, encompassing 90 national wildlife refuges and one national fish hatchery – the largest expansion of opportunities to date. This is great news for hunters and anglers and ...