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Eagles Et Cetera event soars back to DeGray Lake Resort State Park in January 2026

DeGray Lake Resort State Park will host its annual Eagles Et Cetera festival January 23-25, 2026

CWD-positive deer found in Grant, Sevier counties

The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission has confirmed that white-tailed deer from Grant and Sevier counties have tested positive for chronic wasting disease

Holidays Outdoors

Used Christmas trees needed for AGFC’s Habitat for the Holidays program

The AGFC has set up a network of locations where anyone can drop off their used trees to help Christmas … perhaps … mean a little bit more

Outdoors

Big Squirrel Challenge set for Jan. 9-10

Now in its fifth year, this celebration of the bountiful bushytail has become a favorite January event for families across The Natural State

Outdoors

AGFC fisheries making room for megabass

Any angler who catches a largemouth bass weighing 10 pounds or larger from Arkansas waters from Jan. 1-March 31 can call the Lunker Line any time, day or night, and someone from the AGFC will meet them at the lake and take possession of the fish if it is healthy enough, return it to the AGFC’s Joe Hogan State Fish Hatchery in Lonoke and spawn it with genetically superior male bass to create improved fingerlings that will be stocked in the lake

Outdoors

Arkansas biologists help band this year’s duck migration

Cayce Guy is waiting with anticipation for the peak of the waterfowl migration at Steve N. Wilson Raft Creek Bottoms Wildlife Management Area — maybe a little more intently this year than any other