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Murfreesboro, Arkansas resident David Anderson found a 3.29-carat brown diamond at the Crater of Diamonds State Park earlier this month. He has found over 400 gems since 2007.
Fifty years, ago, mandatory attendance at religious services ended at the U.S. Naval Academy.
To the casual observer, Kenya and Arkansas have little in common. However, in my travels this past summer studying the human-elephant conflict in Kenya, I realized that Arkansans and Kenyans are focused on the ecosystem and preserving the environment for future generations. Whether that is protecting elephants in Kenya and the safari's natural beauty, or the Arkansas black bear, Buffalo River, and hunting areas in Stuttgart, people want to save this beauty for future generations and thrive economically while doing so.
Each spring, young male black bears emerge from their dens and strike out to find new territories.
One hundred-fifty years before I took office, Arkansas was home to so many black bears that we were known as The Bear State, but by the early years of the last