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The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission waterfowl staff recently completed its December 2022 aerial waterfowl surveys for the Mississippi Alluvial Valley (Delta), the Arkansas River Valley and southwestern Arkansas. While mallard numbers in the Delta are about 100,000 below the 2009-22 long-term December average, the 480,846 mallards estimated are the most since 2018.

For many of us across Arkansas, thoughts turn to hunting during the holidays. Growing up in southwest Arkansas, Christmas vacation from school meant extra time to hunt quail. In fact, fried quail, biscuits, eggs and grits were the Christmas breakfast staples at our house.

Rainfall in Central Arkansas since Sunday has helped ease dry conditions and made more habitat available for ducks.

The second segment of duck season begins Saturday and runs through Dec. 23. Rains have improved waterfowl habitat in some areas.

The second segment of duck season begins Saturday and runs through Dec. 23. Rains have improved waterfowl habitat in some areas.

SIU student is trying to find out more about another deadly adversary awaiting them in the warmer crevices of the sandstone cliffs where they typically ride out the winter.

Corning, like many towns across Arkansas, was a product of the railroad. In late 1872, the Cairo & Fulton Railroad met the Iron Mountain Railroad on the Arkansas-Missouri border. The Cairo & Fulton came north out of Little Rock. The Iron Mountain came south out of St. Louis. As the crow flies, Corning is 150 miles from Little Rock and 155 miles from St. Louis.

Researchers are investigating critical groundwater declines in Arkansas and how to recharge it.

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