Exploring the Ozarks Outdoors: freshare.net

The tilapia tradition continues. Sheila Easterly of Little Rock caught a 3-pound, 8-ounce tilapia Oct. 26 on Camp Robinson in Pulaski County. Her fish topped the previous mark of 3 pounds, 7 ounces caught by Dennis Show of North Little…[more]

There’s nothing a turkey would rather do than gobble its feed.  That’s a big deal to producers as food represents the majority of the cost of raising a bird.  Recent feed cost hikes have threatened producers’ slender bottom lines.

President Bill Clinton will be in Little Rock Sept. 30-Oct. 2 for the dedication of the Clinton Presidential Park Bridge and the William E. “Bill” Clark Wetlands.

President Clinton and Governor Mike Beebe will dedicate the bridge and…[more]

D. Victor Waits of Holts Summit, Mo., is making a career of setting state fish records in Arkansas.

He holds the state record for river redhorse (8 pounds, 2 ounces) and shovelnose sturgeon (5 pounds), both taken from…[more]

Ellen Moorhead Fennell of Little Rock has two new titles. She has been selected as vice president-elect of the National Audubon Society and also as executive director of Audubon Arkansas, a division of the National Audubon Society.

Fennell…[more]

Wildlife officer Cpl. Lyndle Crownover was recently named the Arkansas Boating Officer of the Year. Crownover, of Gassville, has been in law enforcement for 19 years and has worked more than five years as a wildlife officer for the Arkansas…[more]

There are several factors at play as to why Northern bobwhite quail populations have dwindled statewide, and Oklahoma State University is conducting research to get to the root of the problem.

“Loss and degradation of habitats have certainly…[more]

An ongoing interest in conservation has landed a 17-year-old Camdenton High School graduate a $1,500 scholarship from the Lake of the Ozarks Master Naturalist Chapter. Scholarship winner Caitlin Shoults will be a freshman at Northwest Missouri State University in Maryville…[more]

Two Arizona teenagers solved a lake like none near their Phoenix homes plus brutal heat to capture first place in the 2011 High School Fishing World finals on Lake Dardanelle.

Thomas Chambers and Brandon Koon won a total…[more]

Boaters would do better to leave the cold beer at home – especially this weekend. Arkansas Game and Fish Commission wildlife officers will be out on Arkansas’s waters June 24-26 for “Operation Dry Water 2011,” the annual national crackdown on…[more]