Myron Means can just about put a pin on his calendar each year in May when the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission will begin to see a rise in nuisance bear calls throughout the state.

Logoly State Park will celebrate 50 years as an Arkansas State Park with an anniversary celebration at 8:30 a.m. Saturday, June 3.

For the second straight year, the Louisiana turkey harvest was higher than average and in fact, the second best since 2009. Turkey hunters took 2,833 birds in 2023, only down 13 from 2022 (2,846), based on tag validation data.

The “No Mow May” movement making the rounds on social media first attracted me because, quite frankly, May is a fantastic time to get out and fish instead of spend my days on a lawnmower. And if my lack of enthusiasm in fighting Mother Nature’s designs for my property helped pollinators and …

With the last weekend of the 2023 Arkansas turkey season in the rearview mirror, hunters have tallied 9,193 checked birds. This is an increase of 21 percent from 2022 and the first time since 2017 that the harvest topped the 9,000-bird mark.

The Lower Jack’s Access at Lower White Oak Lake will be closed May 12-June 30 for an extensive renovation.

With last year’s increase in turkey reproduction and a strong start to the 2023 spring turkey season, biologists and staff at the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission are cautiously optimistic about recent trends in Arkansas’s turkey woods. One trend that still has AGFC game wardens concerned i…

The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission has made a clarification to crappie fishing boundaries on Lake Erling.

The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission has unanimously approved a change to the 2023-24 duck season dates to the traditional opener, the weekend before Thanksgiving.

The Arkansas Game and Fish Foundation has announced its 2023 Arkansas Outdoor Hall of Fame inductees and the recipients of its Legacy Award and the Steve Smith Spirit of Giving Award.

Logoly State Park near Magnolia is featured this month in the Arkansas Department of Parks and Tourism’s report on attractions in the state.

Registration is open for the Tom Dehoney Memorial Big Bass Tournament, held in conjunction with the Magnolia Blossom Festival.

LITTLE ROCK – Regular bouts of rain may have kept many gardens on hold during the last few weeks, but they’ve filled most backwaters and ponds just in time for folks who get excited about opening night of frog gigging.

LITTLE ROCK — The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission is again asking for help from hikers, hunters, anglers and herpetology enthusiasts to be on the lookout for a rare species found in The Natural State. Kelly Irwin, the AGFC’s herpetologist, says sightings of the species anywhere in the stat…

Excellent weather and receptive birds welcomed Arkansas’s youth hunters last weekend, and the young guns did not disappoint. According to the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission’s online checking system, hunters aged 6-15 harvested 1,068 turkeys during last weekend’s two-day youth hunt, the fi…

Mention seeing a fox in the woods of Arkansas and most people will immediately think of a red animal with a white-tipped tail they’ve seen in depictions of European fox hunts or from animated films. The red fox is at home in The Natural State, but another native fox species calls Arkansas ho…

The Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission has approved a notice of intent to amend trapping and handling regulations, fox/coyote hunting preserves, purchase and sale of live foxes and coyotes and permitting year-round coyote trapping.

Logoly State Park will host a “bioblitz” at 9 a.m. Saturday.

This weekend opens up a special two-day hunt for Arkansas’s youths to tag a turkey before the die-hard gobbler getters hit the woods for Arkansas’s regular turkey season opener, April 17.

The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission is exploring the idea of enacting two regulations concerning trophy catfishing. A formal survey has been launched at the commission website.

Turkey hunters have some good news to look forward to this season.

WALDRON — Last summer’s drought may have some lingering impact on Arkansas’s black bear reproduction, but there’s no immediate cause for alarm, according to Myron Means, the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission’s large carnivore program coordinator.

The trap team at Lafayette County High School has received a $1,900 grant from the NRA Foundation.

DE QUEEN – De Queen Lake WMA is a great example of partners working together to provide public access and hunting opportunities in southwest Arkansas.

Arkansas Game and Fish Commission has announced a new corporate partnership program designed for Arkansas companies to support long-term conservation efforts in the state.

Columbia County’s official 2022-23 deer harvest numbers were the worst in two decades of records, according to the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission.

Arkansas’s 2022-23 deer season concluded February 28, and the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission’s deer program coordinator expects the final harvest totals to finish higher than last year’s 181,379 total, but likely down about 15,000 deer from where the state has averaged during the last decade.

HOT SPRINGS — Thanks to a partnership between the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Engineering, Research and Development Center’s laboratory in Texas, an innovative project to establish native aquatic vegetation in Corps reservoirs is planting roots thro…

The Keep Arkansas Beautiful Commission (KAB) announced the kickoff of the 2023 Keep America Beautiful Great American Cleanup (GAmC) in Arkansas.

Arkansas college students have less than a month to get their applications in if they want to be considered for one of the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission’s paid summer internships.

The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission heard Thursday several presentations on wildlife and fisheries research projects during its monthly meeting, hosted by Southern Arkansas University.

The grant cycle has begun for Arkansas’ Outdoor Recreation Grants Program.

Conservation comeback stories often focus on the amazing return of white-tailed deer, the black bear in Arkansas and other game species, but one of The Natural State’s most charismatic critters also came back as a result of proper game management and habitat conservation.

YELLVILLE — With more than 110 teams participating in last weekend’s statewide Big Squirrel Challenge, hunters young and old were rekindling the passion of small game hunting throughout Arkansas.

Five more suspected cases of chronic wasting disease (CWD) in deer have been discovered in Tensas Parish, the Louisiana Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory (LADDL) reported.

The cedar waxwing is one of Arkansas’s most striking winter residents, although it does not stand out with garish plumage. Instead of sporting raucous colors or flitting about in dizzying displays of hops and jumps, waxwings are some of the sleekest, most elegant-looking birds likely to grac…

Anglers visiting Lake Erling will find a new cleaning station for their boats at AGRED Park and boat ramp — one designed to help fight the spread of aquatic nuisance species such as giant salvinia, a floating aquatic plant native to South America, considered one of the world's worst invasive…

The DeGray Lake and hydropower plant will commemorate their 50th anniversary with open house on Wednesday, January 18.

A February 14 deadline is set for high school students to apply for one of four American Fisheries Society’s Hutton Scholar paid internships that will be available this summer through the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission.

Deer seasons may be winding down in Arkansas, but don’t put away the hunting gear just yet. The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission is hosting the second annual Big Squirrel Challenge statewide January 13-14.

Arkansas State Parks is introducing Club 52, a rewards program that encourages people to visit all 52 state parks.

A memorandum of understanding has been signed to begin exploration of a trail expansion project in the Mena area.

Arkansas State Parks encourages Arkansans to start the new year on the right foot with First Day Hikes on Sunday, January 1, 2023. Led by America’s State Parks, First Day Hikes encourage everyone to celebrate the new year with time spent outdoors, focusing on healthy habits and lifelong memories.

Birders and other wildlife-watching enthusiasts have a great new way to participate in outdoor recreation, thanks to the creation of a special Natural State-specific online gateway to Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology’s eBird birdwatching system.

Black carp, which are an invasive fish species in North America, are now known to be established in the wild in parts of the Mississippi River basin.

DIERKS — According to Tim Burnley, Stream Habitat Program supervisor for the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission, many manmade low-water crossings, bridges and dams can impede the movements of fish to spawning areas, especially smaller fish species.

Anglers interested in hooking into Arkansas’s largest sport fish can apply for a 2023 Alligator Gar Trophy tag until December 31.