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Arkansas in the Fall

Fall in Arkansas is a spectacular and exciting time of year. From various music festivals such as The Johnny Cash Heritage Festival in Dyess, to the eclectic Hillberry Music Festival up near Eureka, there is something for everyone every weekend to enjoy.

Please take the time to get out and enjoy the beauty, simplicity of life and down home greatness of our state when her colors are on full display!

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Venison

CARNITAS • 2 lb. of Venison (Rump Roast, Flank, or tougher cuts) • 1 Sweet Onion, sliced • 6 Cloves of Garlic, smashed but kept whole • 2 C. Beef Stock • Juice of 3 Limes • 3 T. of Spice Mix divided • Tortillas, extra chopped onion, salsa, avocado, &/ or cilantro for serving This recipe is THE recipe to convince anyone who is unfortunate enough to have never had venison grace their table, why it is exactly deer hunters are so finaticale about this game meat.

Tender, spicy and flat delicious, this is one of those recipes that is just as perfect for deear camp in a dutch oven over a hot fire as it is at home in a slow cooker.

CARNITAS The night before using, or at least a couple hours in advance, rub about 1 - 2 T. of the spice blend over the venison meat and allow it to marinate.

When ready to cook, allow the meat to come to room temperature if it’s been refrigerated. Preheat a large saute pan over medium high heat. Add a tablespoon of fat and once hot, brown the venison on both sides. Remove the venison and set inside of a crockpot or dutch oven.

Add the onion to the saute pan and cook until softened. Add

the garlic and cook for an additional minute until fragrant. Deglaze the pan with lime juice and stock, scraping any bits at the bottom and then add the onions and liquids to the crock pot with the venison. Add 1-2 tbls. of the spice blend.

Cook on low for about 6 hours, or until the meat becomes nice and tender. Check on it periodically, if it appears to be getting dry or low on liquids, add a splash of stock or some lime juice.

Use tongs to remove the meat from the crockpot and place on a large sheet pan, reserving the liquids. Using two forks, shred the venison into little pieces and then broil in the oven at 500 degrees for about 2-3 minutes. The little shredded bits should get crispy very fast. Don’t over do this or you will dry out the meat.

Mix some of the reserved liquids into the shredded venison and serve as desired. We love ours in tortilla shells taco style with some cilantro and avacado salad.

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SPICES MIX • 2 t. Onion Powder • 2 t. Garlic Powder • 1 t. Cumin • 1 T. Oregano • ½ t. Coriander • 1 T. Chili Powder • ½ t. Cayenne • 1 T. Brown Sugar • 2 t. Salt

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4 oz Ginger beer 1 1/2 oz Vodka 1/6 oz Lime juice Combine vodka and ginger beer in a copper mug or highball glass filled with ice. Add lime juice. Stir gently and garnish with a lime slice.

Served it on the rocks; poured over ice. Garnish with lime slice

A Moscow mule is aclassic ocktail made with vodka, spicy ginger beer, and lime juice, garnished with a slice or wedge of lime. It is a type of buck and therefore sometimes known as a vodka buck.

The Moscow mule is popularly served in a copper mug, which takes on the cold temperature of the liquid.

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3 eggs 1 1/2 cups sugar 1/2 cup butter melted and cooled 3 tablespoons flour 1 cup buttermilk

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1 tablespoon lemon juice 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 1/8 teaspoon ground nutmeg pinch of salt 1 9-inch pie crust, unbaked

This recipe is close to my heart! My grandma used Whisk in remaining ingredients until smooth. Pour into to make Buttermik pies when I was young. In fact when prepared pie crust.

I was in 9th grade, I entered a cooking contest for the Bake at 400 for 10 minutes.

Clay County Fair and won with this very recipe.

Reduce heat to 350 degrees and continue bake for In a large bowl, whisk together eggs and sugar. 40 to 45 minutes.

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Dutch Oven

Offical cooking vessel of Arkansas

By John G. Ragsdale This Content provided by Encyclopedia of Arkansas, please visit www.encyclopediaofarkansas.com

The Dutch oven was adopted as the state historic cooking vessel to indicate the significance of the vessel in the Arkansas’s history. Dutch ovens were brought into the state by the explorers and early settlers and were in wide use by the early 1800s.

By the time of statehood, most homes probably had Dutch ovens in use on their fireplaces.

The Dutch oven is neither a pot nor a kettle. It is a cast iron vessel that has three legs to provide stable support and to provide space under the oven for coals to heat the oven from the bottom. The oven has a flat bottom and a tight-fitting lid to contain the heated pressure in the oven; the lid can be removed during cooking to observe or care for the cooking food. The oven has ears on two opposite places on the top of the sides, which allow it to be lifted by a bail or hooks.

The sides of the oven usually have vertical walls with a smaller diameter at the bottom than the top. The lid has a rim around the edge to hold coals for additional heat.

Historians believe the earliest Dutch

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ovens were cast in Pennsylvania or Massachusetts, where iron ore and coal for heat in the processing of the cast iron were available. The creator’s name is not known, but the inventor was probably a cook in the early 1700s, someone who had a local foundry make the oven. It was so successful that high demand caused a rush of more ovens to be cast. While it is not known how the Dutch oven was named, English foundry owner Abraham Darby traveled to Holland to learn better casting methods and may have called them Dutch castings.

For centuries prior to the invention of the Dutch oven, most baking was done in brick or baked clay ovens. This required a large oven to be constructed in a family home or at a community site. Because of the Dutch oven’s size and build, preparation and cleaning became easier. Explorers, hunters, and settlers coming to Arkansas were also able to use Dutch ovens because of the better baking possibilities and the portability of the oven.

There were some variances on the design of the Dutch oven. Some pots or kettles had rounded bottoms, while others had flatter bottoms. Some kitchen ovens in later years are called Dutch ovens but are for use in a stove oven or on a stove top.

“Camp Dutch oven” is a term often used to indicate the oven with a flat bottom, integral supporting legs, and the tight-fitting lid with a rim for containing coals. A loop was cast on the lid to allow lifting of the lid.

Dutch ovens were brought to Arkansas before statehood and were widely used in cooking on fireplace hearths. In the mid-1800s, wood-fired stoves were in use. By 1900, electric and gas-fired stoves were used in urban areas. Stoves caused the gradual decline in use of Dutch oven. However, by 1940, many campers were carrying and using Dutch ovens and caused a revival in interest in the utensil.

In the 2001 regular session of the Eighty-third General Assembly of the State of Arkansas, Senator Joseph K. Mahony, II introduced Senate Bill 402 to designate the Dutch oven as the official state historic cooking vessel. The Senate and the House approved the bill. It became Act 476 of 2001 and was signed by Governor Mike Huckabee on February 28, 2001.

For additional information: Ragsdale, John G. Dutch Ovens Chronicled. Fayetteville, University of Arkansas Press, 1991.

Ware, David. It’s Official! The Real Stories behind Arkansas’s State Symbols. 2nd ed. Little Rock: Butler Center Books, 2017.

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Rice Stewardship Program Mike Sullivan, who farms with his son, Ryan, near Burdette in northeast Arkansas, is one of the rice producers working with USA Rice and Ducks Unlimited through the Rice Stewardship Partnership. The Sullivans have participated in the NRCS Regional Conservation Partnership Program (RCPP) for Rice Stewardship.

As part of their participation, the Sullivans flooded fields in the winter to provide habitat for waterfowl and improve water quality. By putting boards in their water control structures in October, they captured rainfall over the winter.

That gives the sediments and nutrients in the water time to settle out before running off of the field. When they pulled their boards to drain the fields in February, much cleaner water ran off.

In the meantime, they had tremendous use by waterfowl.

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skeptical about attracting ducks in that area of the county, but he was excited to call Ryan one day and tell him that a field near the home place was covered up with ducks.

“The public has noticed that more ducks are in the county, too,” Mike said. Mike has people asking about his flooded fields and commenting on seeing all the ducks. The weir boxes make all the difference. “The system that works for rice farming also works great for waterfowl,” Mike said.

Ryan has always been interested in conservation. He told his dad for years they didn’t have ducks because they obdidn’t hold water on the fields. He ob served other areas of the county that had ducks where fields had been flooded.

“Ryan has been doing waterfowl manage management on a small scale, but the RCPP has allowed him to do this on a wider scale,” Mike said.

“I’m really appreciative of the way the DU, USA Rice and NRCS have partnered to

make this program so successful and how easy it has been to work with all the partners,” Mike said.

Mike said he believes he has also benefitted from working with researchers with the University of Arkansas and the USDA Agricultural Research Service at nearby Arkansas State University.

“We’ve pretty well turned over 1,500 to 2,000 acres of our rice farming operation for research to Dr. Michele Reba and Dr. Joe Massey at the ARS Delta Water Management Research Unit located on campus at Arkansas State,” he said. “They’re taking smallscale research to a wholefarm approach. Dr. Reba likes to refer to Ryan and I as her guinea pigs.

“We’re happy to cooperate because I think the key to what we’re trying to do is to be proactive instead of reactive,” he said. I went to the (Arkansas Soil and Water) Education Conference in Jonesboro, and they spent a whole

day talking about how water is a finite resource, and we’ve got to figure out a way to do things differently than we have in the past.”

The Sullivans recognize that water conservation will become increasingly important in the years ahead.

“If we’re not in the forefront of this, cooperating with the researchers and helping them, we’re going to have problems,” Mike noted. “I hate to think of Ryan having to deal with regulators telling him he has 20 inches of wa water, and he has to figure out a way to make it work.”

The Sullivans have also worked with alternate wetwet ting and drying on their farm.

“It’s almost become comical with us because for years we told our employees they had to make sure they kept a flood on our rice fields. So you can imagine the reaction when you tell them not to turn on the irrigation pump for 10 days.”

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The cro doe hun the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission offers private landowners technical assistance and advice managing wildlife through a statewide staff of private lands biologists. Private land biologists are dedicated to helping landowners achieve their goals by writing customized habitat plans based on the soils, current land use and habitat types of their property. They can even identify possible government assistance programs to help offset any costs of improving the habitat value for wildlife.

With almost 90 percent of Arkansas’s land being privately owned, wildlife management cannot be accomplished simply through the relatively small islands of publicly managed land. Many species, such as northern bobwhite, wild turkey and waterfowl, require large areas of connected habitat to thrive. That requires the help of many Arkansas Outdoor Country /12

private landowners working together. Below are some of the examples of programs or permits that AGFC Private Lands Biologist can use to help landowners improve wildlife habitat and meet wildlife management goals on their property.

Deer Management Assistance Program The Deer Management Assistance Program provides technical assistance to landowners and hunting clubs to improve deer populations.

Biologists work with land managers to assess habitat quality and the potential to support a healthy, wellbalanced deer herd. They evaluate historical, present and future deer management efforts and meet with clubs and land managers to explain options and expected results.

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The program does not retire cropland or grazing land, nor does it open “posted� land to hunters. This is left entirely to the discretion of the landowner.

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A new free Predator-Control Permit also is available to private landowners, which will let permit holders shoot or trap bobcat, coyote, gray fox, red fox, opossum, raccoon and striped skunk day or night. This permit is now available at AGFC.com.

The regulation change allows private landowners more opportunities to reduce these predators on their property to try to boost their quail and turkey numbers.

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The bowie knife, made popular in the 1830s, has evolved into a specific form in current use. The bowie knife was worn for defensive purposes; its primary function was for personal combat. It was designed to be part of a gentleman’s attire, and the key difference between the bowie knife and a hunting knife, a dagger, or a dirk was, initially, the quality of finish of the bowie. Bowie knives came in a variety of forms—with or without guards, with differently shaped blades—and often were adorned with silver and other decoration, sometimes including etching and/or engraving on their metal surfaces.

The knife got its name from a pioneer family who settled in early Arkansas and Louisiana. Jim Bowie, the best known of the brothers, killed one man and seriously injured another with a “big knife” in the “Sandbar Duel” on September 19, 1827, upriver from Natchez, Mississippi. He later moved to Texas and died at the Alamo. In the early 1830s, the term “bowie knife” began to be used, possibly shorthand for “knife like Bowie’s” for the knives that were being worn in the Mississippi River Valley region especially. Jim Bowie’s brother Rezin promoted the knife’s association with the Bowie name by giving away several presentation knives and attrib-

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uting the design of the “first” bowie knife, the one wielded by Jim at the Sandbar Duel, to Rezin himself. By his own account, this knife was a simple “hunting knife.”

Among the early cutlers who made a knife more refined than the common hunting knife was James Black of Washington (Hempstead County), who claimed to have made a knife for Jim Bowie.

An article in the Washington (Arkansas) Telegraph on December 8, 1841, first attributed the invention of the bowie knife to Black. Arkansas statesmen Daniel Webster Jones and Augustus

duced knives with the coffin handle and/or elements of the silver wrap around the handle.

The connection of these knives to Arkansas, and the state’s reputation for the use of the blade, inspired an alternative term to “bowie knife.” “Arkansas knife” and then “Arkansas toothpick” were used synonymously for the bowie knife in the antebellum period. (Only a few references from that period make a distinction between Arkansas toothpick and bowie knife.)

In the 1830s, several states passed laws establishing sanctions against the use of the bowie knife and the Arkansas toothpick. The state’s reputation suffered because of its association with violence and the “toothpick,” and some people called Arkansas the “toothpick state.”

By the time of the Civil War, the term bowie knife had come to be used for any large knife, and many soldiers went off to war with such knives. They were not particularly useful in battle. Today, “bowie knife” usually is defined as a large knife with a cross guard and a blade with a clipped point, while the “Arkansas toothpick” is a knife with a double-edged blade coming to a point.

The only known painting of Jim Bowie done from life; circa 1820.

Bowie popularized the bowie knife, which was made in Washington (Hempstead County).

Garland both heard stories from Black about his designing and making a knife for Bowie.

Black’s knives, embellished with silver plating on the ricasso (the part of the blade immediately above the handle) and silver around the distinctive, coffin-shaped handle, became the most copied of all bowie knives; many Sheffield, England, cutlers pro-

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ARMS IN ARKANSAS

BY CINDY DAVIS Like most folks, when I hear the word Remington, I automatically think guns and ammo, but what most may not know is that every shell that Remington produces is made right here in Arkansas in the small town of Lonoke, located just out of Little Rock.

In 1969, Remington made the decision to move all their ammunition manufacturing from Connecticut to the South. Arkansas was just the perfect geographic and sporting market for their ammunition operation. We all know hunting and the outdoors is what Arkansas is all about.

Remington’s history dates back over 200 hundred years. Founded in 1816, this heritage means Remington Arms Company is one of the oldest arms manufacturers in the United States. Remington has always made all their guns and ammunition right here in the U.S., that’s a big deal.

“We believe in our product, it has stood the test of time for over 200 years. Next year in 2020, Remington will be celebrating their 50th year anniversary in Arkansas.” said Ronnie Evans, Area Manager of Remington’s Lonoke facility.

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“Our Lonoke plant had its the first round come off in October, 1970, with expansions during the years with new lines and technology. I feel very fortunate to have a job I love that’s in the same town where I was born and raised. Remington is just a good company with good people.” said Ronnie.

When asked what ups and downs the company has seen? Ronnie said “The sway of our government control is the largest variable of our market. It’s sad to say but their affect on American’s perception of firearms as a whole is fear driven with the democrat party, as it was during our previous President. But, again we have over 200 years behind us, so we just move forward.”

Remington is a fully robust automated business, employing over 900 employees, yet some equipment dates back to the 1920’s. Walking through the plant, a person feels as if you are in the past but with today’s technology merged into one.

Picture a gun or black smith shop heating lead to Ronnie Evans, Remington AMG & cast a bullet and the noise Cindy Davis, Publisher of of a hammer beating soft- Arkansas Outdoor Country ened brass to create the casing. It really is incredible to see.

“There’s a huge process to manufacturing and maintaining the quality of our ammo and we’re all about quality.” Ronnie explained.

“We think of it more like a metal working shop than anything else. There are so many steps to make a shotgun shell but even more to a rifle bullet. We manufacture every shotgun shell, pistol and rifle round and primers we produce from nothing more than lead bars, steel cups, large ribbons of brass, copper and plastic that come in the form of beads which resemble the stuffing for beanie babies. We have extruders and dies punches to produce our shotgun shells, brass casings with quality checks every step of the way. Our facility produces millions of rounds each day, with 22 and 9mm leading the production lines for rounds. Currently 2.5 million rounds of 22’s a day and during the high point years ago, 11 million a day.

I believe in Green as we say, we have some the best world class ammunition you can buy like our shotgun STS and hyper sonic steel for accuracy, speed and dependability.

Remington has stood the test of time, take the 870 shotguns, or the Core-Lokt bullet, still the best out there. It’s like good cookies, if you have a good recipe don’t change it!”

Later, I told Ronnie how ironic it was that he mentioned the 870 model. Recently I had interviewed Commissioner Stan Jones, and mentioned I was visiting the Remington plant. He told me that still to this day he only uses his old 870 for hunting and that his gun has to be at least 50 years old and that at the Stan Jones Mallard Lodge their all about Remington shotgun shells.

Historically firearms connect each us of to the past, not only here in the South but us as a Nation. Our country was founded on the idea of its people having the ability to protect itself from tyranny, Remington’s heritage has reinforced this principle for over 200 years, so thank you Remington and here’s to 200 more years!

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On Push Mountain

A few years back, my buddy James and I decided we wanted to get into hunting wild or feral hogs as they call them. We had been scouting a group of hogs for months on the Sylamore WMA near Advance, Arkansas known as Push Mountain.

Sylamore WMA lays not far from the Buffalo River, the terrain is mostly rugged narrow trails, if there are any at all, going from gentle slopes to steep ridges in no time and clear streams running down the hill sides.

The season was open to hunt hogs and coyote, so I was carrying my .308. Hunting the WMA’s, you’re not allowed to bait or use dogs which makes hunting hogs even tougher, especially hunting in this rough terrain.

Our anxiety levels were pretty darn high as me and James drove out to Sylamore WMA, we were pumped for the hunt. We parked our truck and gathered up our gear. It was going to be a warm day for this late in the year, leaves already covered the ground.

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the morning went on. Our plan was to split up in one particular area along the side of a ridge, we had earlier scouted.

We went deep into the woods towards a nearby small pool of water, supplied by a spring from up the hill. Hogs had been here earlier on our scouting trips so our hopes were they would be there again. James took the high side and I took the low side, staying a couple hundred yards a part as got closer to our destination. Just as I’m trying to quitely sneak along the pig trail, off in the distance I hear James shoot. Immediately turning around, I looked up the hill, within seconds hear a stampede coming down the hill towards me.

About 20 hogs came barreling down the hill, heading down for the river where the terrain is insanely thick. I only had one option, ran as fast as I could to try and cut them off and hopefully get a shot.

As I’m running, I start to see the first couple hogs leading the pack crossing my path, knowing I would only get one chance for a shot. Still about 75 yards away, I slide to a stop to line my aim up on about the 3rd running hog making a headshot on a

good-sized sow weighing about 180 pounds.

James quickly caught up with me, not long after hearing my shot, telling me he had missed his hog.

Now we found ourselves deep in the woods with a nearly 200-pound hog to carry out, so basically like a body.

Looking around I found a long stick to use as a pole that would be strong enough to carry the hog. We tied the hog’s feet up to the pole so we could tote it out Indian style.

Now this sounds easy enough but let me tell you it was not. The thick rough terrain was tough going, we had to slide it down a hill in one area and the rest was all uphill from where I had killed it. We finally made it back to the main trail and even though it was fairly smooth walking we thought this will be easier, but anytime we got any speed going, the hog would start swinging from side to side, throwing us both to the ground. We were a sight!

Finally, we made it back to the truck, proud of our hog. I will tell you, that ole sow was some of the best pork anyone could ever have.

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By Cindy Davis Deer season is here and there is an incredible program many hunters in the Natural State may not be aware of.

Hides for Hunters is a veteran leather program through The Elks National Veterans Service Commission. This program encourages hunters to donate their deer’s hide and stretch out a helping hand to our nations veterans in need. These hides will be transformed into priceless leather.

The drive is part of a nationwide program to help veterans and wouldn’t exist without donations. The Veterans Leather Program relies on the charity of hunters across the nation to donate.

Elks members collect, prepare and process the hides. Donated hides come from a variety of locations and individuals such as hunters, farmers, ranchers, slaughter houses, locker plants, Last year, 3,460 veterans like taxidermists and even highway Robert Hicklin were provided with deerskin wheelchair gloves by Elks, departments.

The Elks National Veterans made from donated hides.

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Service Commission arranges the funding to pay for tanning and shipping of the hides nationwide. Any state can donate hides and make use of the “Gloves for Wheelchair Veterans” program and participate in the leather distribution. Today, Elks in nineteen States collect hides including Arkansas.

For over 150 years, the Elks have aided our Nation’s Veterans.

Founded in 1868 as a non-political and non-sectarian American fraternal order, their mission: aid the sick and wounded veterans from the battlefields to recovery at home. In 1918, to accommodate the maimed and wounded, the Elks built a 700 bed hospital in Boston and gave it to the federal government. This hospital was the forerunner of the VA Medical Centers we have today.

In 1946, the Elks War Relief Commission officially became the Elks National Veterans Service Commission, serving our veterans and military members.

Then in 1948, just 3 years after WWII, The Elks National Veterans Service Commission

began the Elks Leather Program. The Elks of California launched a hide-gathering program in their State during deer hunting season Raw hides were collected at central points, salted and shipped to a Los Angeles tannery for processing. Finished leather, in brilliant colors, was made available to Veterans Medical facilities throughout the State.

Today, this program is a major source of hides and tanned leather used for recreational and occupational therapy throughout the Veterans Administration health care system. Elks Leather has become a national by-word among veteran patients everywhere.

“We rely on hunters to donate hides each year, said Leather Program Chair Dennis McAleese of Elizabeth, Arkansas.

“A lot of folks don’t even know about our program and that all the hides we collect go right back to our veterans in the form of gloves or projects.

I helped to collect over 1200 hides last year. Each year, Elks members help out with this program, offering their time and to serve veterans. The hides we collect are used to create thousands of gloves and kits to veterans at no charge.

The tanned leather is cut and sewn into specially designed gloves we give to veterans confined to wheelchairs, to protect their hands. It falls on the Elks, since the government doesn’t budget money for leather wheelchair gloves for veterans.

We make this program available to all VA Medical Centers and any veteran. Also, to our military men and women that are recovering, the leather provides therapeutic projects like wallets, moccasins and even footballs to help pass time that can move slowly between visits from family and friends.”

So, this year if you, a family member, a friend, deer processing business, or anyone would like to donate a deer hide to this great program to help our Veterans contact your local Elks group or members.

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Thank You for your support and God Bless our Veterans!

Last year throughout the U.S., Elks collected 19,808 hides, 3,460 veterans received wheelchair gloves and donated 68,429 square feet of leather to the nonprofit for recovering veterans and distributed 8,378 craft kits.

Are you a hunter looking to help out the Elks?

Deer and elk hides are accepted. To donate and prepare hides for storage and shipment people should place the hide in a trash bag after removing the excess fat or flesh then take table salt or livestock salt (rock salt will not work) and salt down the hide and freeze it.

The hides can be dropped off at local Elks Lodges: contact your local Elks Lodge for drop-off information.

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MEET COMMISSIONER

STAN JONES 2017-2024

BY CINDY DAVIS You could never meet an individual more committed to the outdoors than Stan Jones. His decades of knowledge span from deep in the dirt too high in the sky.

Just as harvest was approaching, I caught up with Commissioner Stan Jones at his farm located in Clover Bend, AR. He was appointed to the Arkansas Game & Fish Commission

by Governor Asa Hutchison in July, 2017. Governor Hutchison felt that Jones would bring new light and perhaps a few ways of the past to the AGFC. Jones felt this was where his path in life had led him; to serve on the AGFC and work to preserve the Arkansas outdoors.

“I would have never been on any other boards and never dreamed I would be an AGFC Commissioner, but this was something I felt I could do and make it better.”

Jones is more than just a farmer and well-known duck hunter, owner of Stan Jones Mallard Lodge, he is first a devoted father and grandfather, instilling in his children to respect the land that feeds us each and every day.

“At the age of 6, I had killed my first duck. At 11, killed my first deer, a four point with my 20-gauge shot gun. I had ridden my little moped bike to my hunting spot, after I killed it. I pulled my deer up to the trail where I had left my moped but couldn’t get the deer on my back in order to ride my moped back home at the same time.

I just wasn’t big enough yet. So, I hid my deer and went home with deer blood on my face marking my kill like war paint. I so was proud to be providing meat for our table. Dad and I took his truck so I could bring my deer home. By the 9th grade, I learned how to blow a duck caller really well and started guiding for ducks, good money for a young kid. So, hunting has always been a part of my life. Today, I’m as concerned with food plots and animal replenishing as I am with hunting, they just go hand in hand.” stated Jones.

The AGFC are making great efforts to create food plots for wildlife, something we had slacked on for many years. We are also working with private land owners to provide even more habitat than just our WMA’s in order to create larger and healthier populations of wildlife like: turkey, quail and waterfowl. I’m also proud to say, we the commissioners, created what’s known as a Living Document (a document that can be changed as needed in the years

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to come) allowing year round open season on predators such as beaver, coyote, muskrat, nutria, opossum, raccoon, striped skunk and feral hogs which are detrimental to the turkey and quail population but also damage farmers property; from destroying crops to slaughtering the neighbors chickens.

As Commissioner Jones and I drove around his farm that lays along the banks of the Black River near Shirey Bay WMA, he pointed out large tracks of farmland he was unable to plant this season due to flooding.

You could see where the velocity of the river’s flood waters that scared the farmland causing major damage that farmers, like himself are faced to repair at their own expense. After a while he noticed two adult bald eagles perched high in an old cypress tree on the river’s edge, a beautiful site.

“Farming’s a hard life and you have to love what you do, always remember there’s a balance in nature, we have to respect and appreciate it at all times.

I can look back in the last four years that we’ve not had very good duck years. Take 2015 through 2017, they were very hot and dry Falls. Farmers were able to get there corps out early but then they burnt off their fields, disc and land planed preparing them for the next season. So, we lost a great food source these years, plus it’s tough for farmers they can’t afford to spend the money to flood their fields during the winter months for ducks like they used to in the past. The persistent flooding over the years has changed the waterfowl patterns, he said.

We look at 2018 it was a different year, it was just a very poor duck season. We had a lot of rain, 7“to 9” right before the season came in. All the rivers flooded and what ducks we had were drawn to the Mississippi river-ways and were able to spread out making hunting more difficult. The food value wasn’t there because of the rains and then the warm weather during harvest allowed the rice seed on the ground to sprout before duck season that generally would have been the food source for our ducks. It never really got cold enough up North to freeze and put snow on the ground and drive the ducks down South, for the most part ducks never made it into Missouri last year.

On top of that we have to realize we are competing against the northern states that work hard to keep waterfowl in their states because of the revenue duck hunting generates. It’s big business even more than it was 10 years ago. The Northern states

go to great lengths creating reservoirs and better food sources, they flood corn fields 3 to 4 feet deep allowing ducks to feed by regulating the water levels. Practices like these year after year attract larger duck numbers to their states. And in Arkansas were not able to flood our WMA’s like we used to in the past, we have dying timber we are trying to save and working to get that resolved. Some of the WMA’s timber has been affected more than others but still the problem is real with thousands of acres in some areas.

Again, we can’t control the weather, but I feel this year stands to be a good year for duck hunting in Arkansas. Our living duck numbers are up, except for pintails, we had a good hatch. Since not very many ducks were killed last year maybe we’ll have even more and see more mature ducks come down this season. Also, AGFC implemented a program to aid farmers within a 10-mile range of our WMA’s with expenses, to flood their fields during our waterfowl season.

This is a very positive thing for ducks, creating more habitat and a good food source this Winter. When the WMA’s are flooded the ducks should move over into the woods more quickly.

When people come to my lodge many have no idea our state has so much to offer. Arkansas has record size trout, German browns and rainbows, 17-pound largemouth bass, 60 pound plus stripers, 11-inch turkey beards, 200 class deer, 400 class elk, 650-pound black bears, one of the largest in the US and Stuttgart, the duck hunting capital of the world.

When you look at what all Arkansas has to offer, there’s not another state anywhere that can compare.

Not that the AGFC is perfect but we are looking out for our state. Our purpose is protect it and make it better for the generations to come. Like that old saying, “We reap what we sow.”

We need take the time to plant the seeds for tomorrow in our younger generation because our youth are the future. So many youths have no one to teach them anymore and it’s our job to teach them good ethics, safety and to always treasure the land that feeds us.

We need to always strive to make the outdoors as good as we can and leave it better than we found it. This takes everyone working together as team to accomplish preserving and maintaining the outdoors and the wildlife that call it home. “ After talking and interviewing Commissioner Jones, I feel Arkansas is very fortunate to have someone like him working with the AGFC. From hunting and fishing to food plots and conservation, his lifetime knowledge of the outdoors along with his passion for Arkansas, one can understand why Governor Hutchison chose Jones to help make the AGFC better. Commissioner Jones respects and enjoys working with the other Commissioners. He thinks it is a diverse group and each one brings something different to the table but foremost they share a love of Arkansas. He knows that the AGFC is a huge team effort from Director Pat Fitts to all the other employees that strive to preserve our great Natural State for generations to come.

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The squad consisted of Katie Clifton, Garrett Hensley, Rhet Baxley, Isaac Hensley and David Ladd. (Above Photo) These shooters shot lights out, winning the competition by edging out the Cabot Panthers by 1 target and taking home the team grand prize of $500.

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Outdoor Dream Destination The Camp at Lake Wappapello sets on 160 acres of wilderness designed to let you enjoy the comforts of home while still giving you easy access to campground amenities and proximity to exciting outdoor destinations. The Camp is perfect for special events, birthdays, reunions & more!

The Camp Amenities • Wally’s Steak & Seafood • Store • Craft Beer Station

• Ride High Steaks the Mechanical Bull • Pizza from Our Brick Oven!

Cabins and Wide RV sites We are redefining the traditional camping experience and taking it to the next level.

Our unique outdoor vacation concepts include upgraded facilities within a gorgeous natural environments. Instead of the place to stay on the way to somewhere, we are the somewhere to stay!

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Up Coming LIVE EVENTS! Casey Donahew Live 7 pm. ...........Sept 27 Stateline 5 .......................... ..........Sept 28 TUNZ-4U Karaoke ............................Oct 4 Dustin Martin........................... ........Oct 5 TUNZ-4U Karaoke&dancepartyw/DJ.....Oct 11

LIVE MUSIC & EVENTS Every Friday & Saturday Night Rain or Shine

10,000 SQ FT - COVERED STAGE, DANCE FLOOR & PAVILION WITH COOLING COMFORT STATIONS! Visit us on Facebook for a Full Concert Schedule!

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The Forest Event Center

for all your Wedding and and event Plans!

• Custom Cabins • Lodge • 90 RV Full hookups • 30/50 amp • Primitive Tent Camping • Shower House

• Private stocked fishing lake • Pool • Kids playgound & archad • Side by sides and golf carts welcome.

*Daily, weekly, monthly and yearly rates available

153 University Forest Drive • Wappapello, MO

573-222-CAMP (2267)

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