The long paw of the law reached out this month for a Jeanerette, LA man accused of the illegal killing of a bear in November 2018.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is notifying the public that the scoping comment period for the Millwood Lake Master Plan and Shoreline Management Plan revisions has opened.

Ten days into the start of the modern gun season, hunters in Columbia County have harvested a little more than half the number of deer they killed during the 2019-2020 season.

It was all treat, no trick this Halloween for Steven McCool of Fayetteville at Crater of Diamonds State Park in Murfreesboro.

The long wait for people who love staying at the DeRoche Ridge campground at DeGray Lake Resort State Park is over.

The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission approved last week changes to Arkansas’s regulations on recreational fishing, commercial fishing and aquaculture.

The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission and Arkansas Economic Development Commission’s Department of Rural Services have extended the deadline for educators to apply for free money to help teach conservation education in Arkansas.

Biologists with the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission urge all hunters and anglers alike to take the extra time to clean all their equipment of mud and vegetation before bringing it to the wetlands.

The Arkansas Department of Agriculture has released the newly created “Arkansas Feral Hog Handbook,” a guide to resources available in Arkansas to assist with feral hog control and eradication.

The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries has requested the Department of Transportation and Development to close the water control structure on Lake Bistineau in Webster, Bossier, and Bienville parishes for giant salvinia control.

Hunters planning to hit the woods on Saturday, October 17 for Arkansas’ muzzleloader season and November 14 for modern gun deer season may want to check with the deer processor they normally use to make the most of their harvest.

Squirrels are vocal animals with sounds ranging from agitated chatters to passive whines. Hunters can take advantage of the squirrel language with a little squirrel talk of their own.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Vicksburg District will resume the collection of fees at its recreation sites’ day use areas beginning October 1.

With hunting season now under way, the Arkansas Hunters Feeding the Hungry organization is again appealing to the state's hunters and the public to help feed Arkansas' more needy citizens.

Arkansas hunters harvested more alligators than ever before in the 2020 alligator season, which was held the third and fourth weekends in September in three hunting zones in South Arkansas.

The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission is encouraging hunters to have harvested deer tested for chronic wasting disease.

The application period has opened for the next class of Arkansas Game and Fish Commission wildlife officer cadets.

With less than a year before his scheduled retirement, Mike Harris, an Arkansas Game and Fish Commission senior technician at Sulphur River Wildlife Management Area near Fouke, completed a quest that’s been a decade in the making — documenting the first pair of swallow-tailed kites to succes…

The summer of 2020 was pivotal for University of Arkansas-Monticello wildlife majors Dylan Rice and Clayton Whitaker.

The coronavirus pandemic delayed the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission’s Family and Community Fishing Program’s annual late spring and early summer catfish tagging promotion, but the project is getting a reprieve as fall arrives.

In just over two weeks, Arkansas will host its first-ever quota-based alligator hunt on private land in the southern portion of the state.

Here’s a reason to get excited about leftovers: The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission’s Fisheries Division has some summer leftovers that will mean more opportunities for Arkansans to catch catfish.

All hunters, including those under 16, will need to have a customer identification number issued to check big game or participate in permit drawings, beginning this season.

An increase in visitors at several Arkansas state parks has prompted park officials to remind the public that COVID-19 restrictions remain in place and will be enforced.

When bears and deer occasionally wander into city streets and suburbs, the news always takes notice, but all sorts of wildlife make a living right in the middle of many cities around the country.

With students headed back to school, be it in-person or online, education is again in full swing in Arkansas, and so is the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission’s Education Division.

When Sean Lusk graduated from Auburn University with a master’s degree in fisheries management, he never dreamed his future would include taking up water gardening in Arkansas.

The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF) has scheduled a drawdown for Bayou D’Arbonne Lake in Union Parish.

Most of the dozen new wildlife officers who graduated last week from the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission’s training program have been posted to South Arkansas counties.

Arkansas’s bear population has made the news on more than one occasion in the last few weeks.

A massive habitat project for the bed of Lake Monticello involved 15 biologists from across Arkansas last week.

As temperatures rise and summer moves into full swing, wildlife on the water is also returning to its seasonal proclivities — for better and for worse. As of July, the first harmful algal blooms of 2020 have been reported in Arkansas.

CROSSETT — After 37 years working at the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission, you’d think Karen Rowe who heads up the agency’s nongame migratory bird program had seen it all, but nothing could have prepared her for the sight introduced to her by a photographer in Ashley County a few weeks ago.

The drawing for Arkansas’s 2020-21 public land alligator season permits is complete, and 38 hunters have been notified of drawing their permit.

Fish bait can be found in many forms at most tackle retailers. Worms, crickets, minnows, wax worms and other creatures fill boxes and bins. Prepared baits are also found in a wide variety of forms, smells and textures.

Biologists from the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission spent a week in June getting a good look at the size and scope of the flathead and blue catfish swimming the waters of Lake Erling.

Boating enforcement officers with the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission remind everyone to practice safe boating habits and social distancing recommendations during the Independence Day holiday.

Travelers can once again stop at Arkansas Welcome Centers, according to Arkansas Department of Transportation (ARDOT) officials.

Gov. Asa Hutchinson has appointed Mountain Home businessman Rob Finley as a member of the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission.

Water levels within the Felsenthal National Wildlife Refuge pool will be manipulated to 64 MSL, dropping it one foot lower than the normal level of 65 MSL beginning in July, subject to natural flood events.

A new disease is sweeping through rabbit populations in the United States, and it has officials at both the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission and the Arkansas Department of Agriculture concerned.

Bringle Lake in TEXarkana has a confirmed presence of giant salvinia.

The application period is open to apply for permits in Arkansas’ 2020 alligator hunting season.

Arkansas turkey hunters will see some major changes in their season next April, all focused to help recover the state’s eastern wild turkey population, which has seen some declines during the last decade.

With all the spring rains, most Arkansas landowners are ready to hit the field to cut hay. There are a few things to consider this year before you get on that tractor.

Some fishing conservation methods require more taking than leaving. Such is the case with several Arkansas lakes that, with no creel limits on certain species such as channel catfish, are encouraging anglers to take an unlimited number of that particular fish.

Monticello has a number of cultural and recreational opportunities but there are virtually no opportunities for bike enthusiasts.

The catfish may be one of the most misunderstood of all Arkansas’s sportfish.