Ask an Arkansas duck hunter about a mixed bag, and they’ll picture a strap filled with gadwall, teal and shovelers alongside their prized mallards and pintails. Heading into this fall, "mixed bag" better describes the mood.  Surveys in the Prairie Pothole Region, where most of Arkansas’s ducks are hatched, indicated fair habitat at the start…

This year’s extended triple-digit summer may already seem a memory, but the results of volunteers stepping up to help maintain Arkansas Game and Fish Commission wildlife management areas will be evident as hunters begin making their way to the woods later this fall. Sixty-six volunteers sacrificed their Saturday, Sept. 12, to help clean up litter,…