Three young artists from Arkansas will represent the state at the annual State-Fish Art Expo June 24-25 at the Texas Freshwater Fisheries Center in Athens, Texas.
The winners are:
Grades 4-6, Parker Wright, Fort Smith Grades…[more]
Kendall Goates and Cody Chessher were the top anglers in the Student Angler Federation Arkansas State High School Bass Fishing Championship May 7 on Lake Maumelle. The duo pulled in a total of five fish weighing 12.25 pounds.
According to prehistoric records, elk roamed the northwestern part of Missouri until 1865. Now, the Missouri Department of Conservation is planning to reintroduce elk, but this time in the southeast part of the state. While a University of Missouri anthropologist…[more]
Many dream of finding a big diamond at Arkansas’s diamond site and yesterday’s 8.66-carat diamond find by Beth Gilbertson of Salida, Colorado, proves that dreams can still come true. According to Park Superintendent Justin Dorsey, “Large diamonds continue to be…[more]
The Tuamotu Kingfisher is a Pacific island bird with a cream-colored head, blue and green feathers, and a white underbelly. It sings with its mate. Males, during courtship, bring lizards to their girlfriends, banging the reptiles against…[more]
An insect not previously recorded in Arkansas was collected recently by Jessica Hartshorn, a University of Arkansas graduate student in Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences and an avid insect collector.
Hartshorn collected the Acanthocephala…[more]
A successful diamond miner needs patience and perseverance. Steve Crutchfield, a 56-year-old carpenter from Friendship, Arkansas knows this after having visited Arkansas’s diamond site, the Crater of Diamonds State Park, more than 20 times over the past three months. On…[more]
Historians and military analysts have pored over the Wilson’s Creek battle that occurred during the first months of the Civil War for clues about an event where Missouri was almost lost to the Union. While artifacts and written records detail…[more]
Volunteers recently came together to take almost 170 kids from Oklahoma Children’s Hospital fishing at Lake Texoma. Camp Cavett offers outdoor experiences to children who are undergoing treatments for illnesses such as heart disease, cancer, sickle cell anemia and other…[more]
When National Geographic producers were looking for an expert to interview on alligator gar eating habits, they called Chris Kennedy in Cape Girardeau. Kennedy works with alligator gar as part of his duties as the Missouri Department of Conservation’s Southeast…[more]
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