To help kick start the season, we are proud to present the eighth annual edition of Greenhead. We spread our content far and wide for 2017, obliging readers who asked for stories from different, perhaps less-traveled, areas of the state.
Usually, when a business is said to be underwater, it’s not a good thing. In the intertwined duck hunting and rice growing industries of Arkansas, however, it’s all about the water. Every single drop.
The historical society Dr. H.V. Glenn and eight others launched in 1953 is still going strong as a 501(c)(3), tax exempt organization. It chronicles the names, places and events that make up the story of Arkansas’ duck hunting and rice growing epicenter.
Today's apparel, lighter weight and breathable, may make hunting easier and more comfortable, but let today's hunters just try making a bow tie work with their camo and face paint.
In the following Q&As, this year’s group of duck hunting executives share their firsthand knowledge of things obvious, like a preferred shotgun or duck call, and things less seen but just as important, like what snacks to enjoy in the blind.
Buster Cooper is a lot of things — entrepreneur, veteran, fireman, family man and founder of Bust-A-Duck Guide Service in Gregory — but at his core, he’s a duck hunter.
In an era where liberal limits and wanton waste were the norm, George Wilcox was years ahead of his time as he became one of the country’s first waterfowl conservationists.
There are bigger duck clubs in Arkansas than Bull Sprig, which comes in around 1,200 acres, all told. But few are better known, have a better reputation or are more appreciated by its members who have spent decades there, bound through a common love for hunting.
The Augusta area, known for its dense populations of mallards, is prime Arkansas duck hunting territory. Given the town’s name and the distinctive look of the prized greenheads hunters pursue each fall, the idea of playing off the venerable Masters golf tournament in Augusta, Ga., became the inspiration.
Experiencing the Museum of the Arkansas Grand Prairie may be an exercise in traveling back in time, but the guiding forces of the Stuttgart landmark are equally focused on the future.