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Commission approves funding partnership with AGFF for enhanced access projects • Arkansas Game & Fish Commission
In addressing Caldwell’s 10-year-old son, Harley, sitting in the audience, Booth said with some obvious emotion in his voice, “Over the next seven years, we’re glad that (your dad) is here, and I ask that you never forget that your dad is doing this for the same reason that I’m doing this, and that the (other commissioners) are doing it here, and that the agency staff does it. That’s to leave things better than we found it, because that’s what this place is all about.”
No proposed hunting regulations clarifications for 2024-25 were approved, as the 30-day period for public comment in regulations clarifications brought before the Commission last month had not ended. Commissioner Rob Finley of Mountain Home said that commissioners will meet here (or by teleconference) at 10 a.m. Thursday, July 25, to approve those regulations changes. [Click for Presentation]
In other action:
- Booth submitted a minute order that was approved to retire the weapon from the agency inventory of former Chairman Jones.
- The Commission adopted the Arkansas Legislature’s approval last month of a 5 percent raise for Booth.
- Booth recognized the work of more than half of the AGFC Enforcement Division who worked extensively during Operation Dry Water July 4-6. Booth said 121 game wardens and officers worked 2,400 hours for public safety during the three-day period, contacting more than 3,600 boats and about 11,000 boaters on Arkansas waterways. Officers arrested 23 boaters for boating while intoxicated, handed out 188 citations and issued 346 warnings. Booth noted that, most importantly, there were no boating fatalities on Arkansas waterways during Operation Dry Water, a national campaign to raise public awareness about the dangers of boating under the influence.
A video of the meeting is available at https://www.youtube.com/user/ArkansasGameandFish.
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CUTLINES:
IN CHARGE
J.D. Neeley of Camden (left) leads the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission as its new chairman during July’s monthly meeting in Little Rock, as AGFC Director Austin Booth (left) and vice-chairman Anne Marie Doramus (right) look on.
INTERN AT THE LECTERN
Jackson Brown, a senior-to-be at Arkansas Tech University in Russellville, was one of three summer interns at the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission who spoke to commissioners at the July monthly meeting. Each intern, part of a crew of 21 college interns and three Hutton Scholars at the agency this summer, gave a PowerPoint presentation of their work over an eight-week paid internship and how it has changed their understanding of how the agency operates.
FIRST DAY IN THE CHAIR
New AGFC commissioner Chris Caldwell of Little Rock notes his wife and son in attendance Thursday during his first monthly meeting with the Commission. Third-year commissioner Bill Jones is to Caldwell’s right.
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OPINION | WALLY HALL: Arkansas will need more than Robinson’s coerced contribution | Arkansas Democrat Gazette
Wally Hall
Wally Hall is assistant managing sports editor for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. A graduate of the University of Arkansas-Little Rock after an honorable discharge from the U.S. Air Force, he is a member and past president of the Football Writers Association of America, member of the U.S. Basketball Writers Association, past president and current executive committee and board member of the Arkansas Sports Hall of Fame, and voter for the Heisman Trophy. He has been awarded Arkansas Sportswriter of the Year 10 times and has been inducted into the Arkansas Sports Hall of Fame and Arkansas Sportswriters and Sportscasters Hall of Fame.
Will Garrett Nussmeier’s size hold him back in the NFL?
LSU QB Garrett Nussmeier will look to impress scouts at the NFL Combine despite size concerns.
Move over, Anthony Richardson. There’s a new quarterback athletic marvel at the NFL scouting combine.
On Saturday in Indianapolis, Arkansas’ Taylen Green broke Richardson’s top marks at the position since 2003 for both the vertical leap and broad jump. Green’s 43½-inch vertical topped Richardson’s previous high by three inches, while his 11-2 broad jump beat the Indianapolis Colts signal-caller’s measurement by five inches.
Then, Green reeled off a 4.36-second 40-yard dash time. That stood as the second-best time for any quarterback since 2003, trailing only Reggie McNeal in 2006 (4.35 seconds). Richardson, for comparison, logged a 4.43-second mark in 2023.
Green didn’t even bother with a second attempt after his initial time.
The testing profile created quite the stir around the 6-6, 227-pound passer, who had widely projected as a developmental option for teams on Day 3.
NFL Network’s Charles Davis said Green told him that no teams had approached him about working out as a receiver, adding that he would not be interested in a position switch.
Green started for the Razorbacks for the last two seasons after playing the first three years of his career at Boise State. Known for his running ability and ample arm strength, Green threw for 2,714 yards and 19 touchdowns last year while adding 777 yards and eight scores on the ground.
It was a banner day for Arkansas, as running back Mike Washington Jr. also stood out among his peers with a group-leading 4.33-second 40-yard dash as well as strong marks in the vertical leap (39 inches) and broad jump (10-8).
Rex Nelson
Rex Nelson has been senior editor and columnist at the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette since 2017, and he has a biweekly podcast called “Southern Fried.”
After graduating from Ouachita Baptist University in 1981, he was a sportswriter for the Arkansas Democrat for a year before becoming editor of Arkadelphia’s Daily Siftings Herald. He was the youngest editor of a daily in Arkansas at age 23. Rex was then news and sports director at KVRC-KDEL from 1983-1985.
He returned to the Democrat as assistant sports editor in 1985. From 1986-1989, he was its Washington correspondent. He left to be Jackson T. Stephens’ consultant.
Rex became the Democrat-Gazette’s first political editor in 1992, but left in 1996 to join then-Gov. Mike Huckabee’s office. He also served from 2005-09 in the administration of President George W. Bush.
From 2009-2018, he worked stints at the Communications Group, Arkansas’ Independent Colleges and Universities, and Simmons First National Corp.
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