It’s a complicated story of how the duck with the long bill got on the wall of my den, but I have Gene DePriest of the famed Gene’s Barbecue in Brinkley to thank. If you hunt ducks anywhere around Monroe County, you’ve likely eaten at Gene’s.

Arkansas duck season dates are set for the upcoming season with a 60 day, 6 duck limit in place for the seventeenth consecutive season.

A 60-day waterfowl hunt was approved Thursday by the the Arkansas Game & Fish Commission.

The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission and a private landowner are working on a proposed trade and sell of land at the southern end of Bayou Meto Wildlife Management Area.

The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission has been presented with proposals for the 2013-14 duck season

Gov. Mike Beebe names Ken Reeves of Harrison as the newest commissioner of the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission.

A group of 21 northeast Arkansas duck hunters won an opening skirmish with the Arkansas Game & Fish Commission. Now both sides will prepare to do full battle in court.

Ducks Unlimited welcomed George Dunklin to his presidency at the organization's convention in Portland, Ore., last week. His new office caps a relationship that began when Dunklin started volunteering 30 years ago.

Duck blinds are coming down along the St. Francis River in east Arkansas to enforce a state rule preventing permanent structures on public hunting lands.

Fears that dangerous, daily races to popular hunting holes will lead to injuries or deaths have prompted the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission to take action. New regulations are being considered for next season while wildlife officers are doing what they can immediately to alleviate the problem.

Fears that dangerous, daily races to popular hunting holes will lead to injuries or deaths have prompted the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission to take action. New regulations are being considered for next season while wildlife officers are doing what they can immediately to alleviate the problem.

Arkansas and Mississippi lawmakers have joined forces to introduce legislation clarifying the legality of hunting on rolled rice fields, a practice that has been interpreted as illegal baiting by U.S. Fish and Wildlife officials. The legislation went nowhere late last year but an Arkansas representative plans to reintroduce it in the new Congress.

Congressional delegations from Mississippi and Arkansas want the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to work with them to allow hunting over a rolled rice fields.