Two other federal wildlife refuges are in far south Arkansas. In Ashley County, Overflow National Wildlife Refuge was established in 1980 to protect bottomland hardwood forests in the area.

BIG LAKE ADVENTURE. Begin your Big Lake Wilderness adventure at the refuge visitor center at the south entrance off Arkansas 18. You can collect information and maps of the area to help you plan ...

FAYETTEVILLE -- About 700 acres of wooded land north of Devil's Den State Park has been added to a project that aims to create a wildlife corridor from the park to the Ozark National Forest east ...

Once common throughout the bottomland hardwood forests of eastern Arkansas and neighboring states, the native black bear was nearly eradicated by the early decades of the 20th century.

HARRISON, Ark. (Edited News Release/KY3) — Arkansas wildlife officials are monitoring the state’s rivers and streams for signs of hunters taking advantage of the start of deer season this weekend.

The Big Lake Wars erupted in northeast Arkansas in the decades following the Civil War. The late Joe Mosby, a legendary Arkansas outdoors writer, described them this way: "The Big Lake Wars pitted ...