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.
Vince Callahan of Proctor has been elected to an at-large position on the national board of directors for Ducks Unlimited, the organization announced Wednesday.
Allen, of Judsonia, won his second World’s Championship Duck Calling contest in Stuttgart over the weekend. Allen, a 12-time competitor, won his first contest in 2010 and outperformed 62 contestants to win his second.
With many Arkansas rice fields sporting a ratoon rice crop this fall, the United State Fish & Wildlife Service is putting hunters on notice that manipulating these fields could result in a baiting ticket.
The Arkansas duck season is set to get underway with limited opportunities for public land hunters due to lack of water but duck numbers in the state are decent for those with water.
The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission has filed a controversial motion asking a circuit judge to throw out a lawsuit filed by a group that wants to prevent the agency from removing duck blinds on private lands.
Circuit Judge Randy Philhours of Paragould issued a temporary stay to prevent the Arkansas Game & Fish Commission from enforcing its deadline to remove personal and private duck blinds from three NEA Wildlife Management Areas.
