LITTLE ROCK — 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 first time the harvest has exceeded 1,000 since 2016. The…
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Good news from Arkansas’s wild turkey population highlights northwest Arkansas meeting
SPRINGDALE — Commissioners with the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission heard some good news about Arkansas’s turkey population during a presentation at today’s monthly meeting held at the J.B. and Johnelle Hunt Family Ozark Highlands Nature Center. AGFC Turkey Program Coordinator Jeremy Wood gave some preliminary results of the 2022 Wild Turkey Population Survey, which…
10% off Vera Lloyd’s Turkey Trot 5K
Vera Lloyd Presbyterian Family Services’ 11th annual Turkey Trot will be on Saturday, November 12th starting at 8 a.m. in Monticello. This year, the race has the option to be in person or virtual! The in-person 5k race will start and end on the Vera Lloyd campus; 745 Old Warren Rd. Monticello, AR. “Virtual” races…
Arkansas turkey harvest inches up
LITTLE ROCK — Natural State turkey hunters saw an uptick in checked birds during this spring’s three-week turkey hunting season, which ran from April 18 to May 8. Hunters checked 7,578 turkeys, an 8 percent increase from last year’s 7,013-bird total. That number also includes harvest totals from the state’s youth hunters who enjoyed a…
Arkansas squirrel season opens May 15
LITTLE ROCK — With turkey hunting season wrapped up, many hunters will be putting away their shotguns until fall, but there’s another spring season that gives Arkansas hunters plenty of reasons to keep the scattergun cleaned and ready. Arkansas’s squirrel season opens May 15, and for those who enjoy chasing these treetop targets, it’s a…
Avoid these mistakes in the turkey woods
LITTLE ROCK — Col. Brad Young isn’t just chief of law enforcement for the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission, he’s a dyed-in-the-wool hunter who was introduced to the turkey woods by his grandfather when he was 7 years old. During more than 30 years in the turkey woods, he’s learned quite a few tricks through…
Arkansas biologist honored with National award for hard work, habitat gains
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – The National Wild Turkey Federation at its 46th annual national convention Feb. 18, presented Jason Mitchell, Arkansas Game and Fish Commission wildlife biologist, with the Joe Kurz Wildlife Manager of the Year Award, for his outstanding management of wild turkeys and wildlife habitat management. Mitchell has worked for the Arkansas Game and…
BOHEMIA Cares gives bicycles and turkeys away Saturday in Warren
BOHEMIA Cares gave away 22 bicycles and 70 turkeys on Saturday at the Warren High School gym. COVID-19 tests were also done by volunteers. Shown, from left, are Justice Fleming, Shaylonda Jackson, Bradley Dallas, Verlancia Tucker, Serena Moore and Jimmy Daniels. Photo by Tim Kessler
Bohemia Cares giveaway moving to Warren Gym
BOHEMIA Cares is honored to support low-income families in (Bradley and Drew counties) Arkansas for a second year with a turkey and bike giveaway set for Saturday, December 18. In efforts to slow the spread of the Coronavirus in rural communities, we have partnered with Pinnacle Family Medicine and RHEA Medical Support Services (RMSS) to…
Give love on Christmas: Bohemia Cares keeping communities COVID free
BOHEMIA Cares is honored to support low-income families in (Bradley and Drew counties) Arkansas for a second year with a turkey and bike giveaway set for Saturday, December 18. In efforts to slow the spread of the Coronavirus in rural communities, we have partnered with Pinnacle Family Medicine and RHEA Medical Support Services (RMSS) to…
St. James A.M.E. Church to host Annual Angie Young’s Festival of Tables
Warren, Arkansas – St. James A.M.E. Chuch will hold its annual Angie Young’s Festival of Tables Saturday, November 20, 2021 at 915 St. James Street in Warren at 5:00 p.m. Donations are welcomed at $10. Also, one lucky person will receive a personal/household basket. The menu for the event includes turkey and dressing, ham, green…
Masonic Lodge selling smoked turkeys
Warren’s Masonic Lodge will be selling smoked turkeys again this year. Turkeys will be available for pickup after 3:00 p.m. November 24, 2021 at the lodge. Turkeys are $50 each. Go by Scott Clanton’s pawn shop, 304 S Martin St. for your tickets.
10% off Vera Lloyd’s Turkey Trot 5K
Monticello, AR-Vera Lloyd Presbyterian Family Services’ 10th annual Turkey Trot will be on Saturday, November 20th starting at 8:00 a.m. in Monticello. This year, the race has the option to be in person or virtual. The in-person 5k race will start and end on the Vera Lloyd campus; 745 Old Warren Rd. Monticello, AR. “Virtual”…
Boost the wildlife potential of your hunting property
LITTLE ROCK — The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission and its partners in conservation are hosting special workshops throughout the state to help landowners improve the wildlife habitat on their property, Whether your focus is deer, turkey, quail or the many non-game species that depend upon healthy habitat, AGFC biologists want to help. Clint Johnson,…