Exploring the Ozarks Outdoors: freshare.net

A total of 1,085 students from across the state shot 43,745 arrows April 1 at the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation’s Archery in the Schools annual state shoot at the Cox Convention Center in Oklahoma City.

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Ten youths from throughout Missouri have been selected to participate in the state’s first Governor’s Invitational Youth Turkey Hunt this weekend, April 3-5, in Jefferson City. The event is sponsored by the Missouri State Chapter of the National Wild Turkey…[more]

Missouri anglers are off to a running start for 2009, having set half the number of records normally recorded in one year.

The year was barely a month old when Perry May, Dexter, gigged a 2-pound northern hog…[more]

Oklahoma lawmakers are moving quickly to establish a black bear hunting license. Both the state House and Senate have approved the measure and action is now pending with the Oklahoma Wildlife Commission and with Gov. Brad Henry.

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Two anglers recently made the state’s top 20 largemouth bass list when they reeled in bass tipping the scales at over 14 pounds. Tim O’Connor of Oklahoma City landed his 14-lb., 1-oz. bass Feb. 28 from a private pond in…[more]

Jill Szumigala had never thought of herself as Robin Hood until she competed in Missouri’s National Archery in the Schools Program (NASP) tournament March 7. Keli Smart apparently saw herself as a Superwoman, but it took NASP to make her…[more]

Arkansas youth deer hunters will enjoy two extra days for their modern gun hunt and a relaxed antler restriction during the upcoming deer season. Commissioners from the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission formally approved the regulation changes as part of…[more]

Of all the official state symbols Oklahoma claims, the white bass is the favorite for anglers, especially in the coming weeks when the native fish begin their annual spawning runs up creeks, rivers and other streams that feed into lakes…[more]

Turkey hunters in many parts of Missouri don’t need an expert to tell them the state’s turkey population is down. However, they might be interested in suggestions that could improve their hunting experiences this year and in 2010.

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An Arkansas State Senate panel endorsed several proposed constitutional amendments, among them a bill that would bring the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission back under the management of the legislature.

The proposal, known as Senate Joint Resolution 11…[more]