LITTLE ROCK The first step in the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission's process of the very popular alligator hunting season has just been finalized. For the past couple of weeks, AGFC field crews have been busy conducting alligator spotlight surveys all across south Arkansas.

TheCabin.net is the online version of the Log Cabin Democrat, Conway Arkansas' newspaper.

TheCabin.net is the online version of the Log Cabin Democrat, Conway Arkansas' newspaper.

Coal Pile Lake area is closed to all hunting

COMBS There may not even be a horse in this one-horse town. People drive through here to get somewhere else. There are no traffic signals, no neon lights, not even a working gas pump.

Three decades ago conservationists scored back-to-back landmark victories over the federal steamroller in the form of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

LITTLE ROCK Hunters participating in Arkansas's Light Goose Conservation Order are urged to be careful not to accidentally shoot trumpeter swans.

More young trumpeter swans are finding new homes in the wild in Arkansas. Eleven swans brought in from Iowa were released Tuesday at Holla Bend National Wildlife Refuge, near Dardanelle, and four were released Wednesday at the Boxley Valley mill pond on the Buffalo National River in western Newton County.

The name alone is enough to cause many Arkansans to shiver. Snakehead. It's a fish, not a reptile, and it is trouble.

BRINKLEY It may be the largest fish purge ever attempted, this campaign in east Arkansas to wipe out the unwanted snakeheads.