This is a list of Wildlife Management Areas in Arkansas. All counties are represented except Boone, Chicot, Crittenden, Dallas, Fulton, Grant, Jackson, Lincoln, and St. Francis County.Wildlife Management Areas- Retrieved 2019=07-27

+ Wildlife Management Areas in Arkansas Name County or counties Area (acres) Year Established Remarks ImageBayou Des Arc WMA White 953 1966 Created with a 320-acre public fishing lake.Bayou Des Arc Wildlife Management Area- Retrieved 2019-02-20 Bayou Meto WMA Arkansas, Jefferson 33,832 Called the "George H. Dunklin Jr. Bayou Meto WMA" and also called "Wabbaseka Scatters" or just the "Scatters".Bayou Meto Wildlife Management Area- Retrieved 2019-02-20 Beaver Lake WMA Benton, Carroll, Madison 8,007 Includes Devil's Eyebrow Natural Area.Beaver Lake Wildlife Management Area- Retrieved 2019-02-20 Bell Slough WMA Faulkner 2,040 Kenny Vernon Nature Trail and Bell Slough Water Trail.Bell Slough Wildlife Management Area- Retrieved 2019-02-20 Benson Creek Natural Area WMA Monroe 1,458 Includes 610 acres of bald cypress/water tupelo swamps along Bayou DeView.Benson Creek Natural Area Wildlife Management Area- Retrieved 2019-02-20 Beryl Anthony Lower Ouachita WMA Ashley, Union 7,020 3,600 new acres to be added in 2018 and 2019. The WMA joins the Moro Big Pine WMA and the Warren Prairie Natural Area WMA having colonies of Red cockaded woodpeckers.Beryl Anthony Lower Ouachita Wildlife Management Area (April 11, 2018)- Retrieved 2019-02-20 Big Lake WMA Mississippi 12,320 1950 7,000 acres purchased in 1950. The rest purchased up to 1969.Big Lake Wildlife Management Area- Retrieved 2019-02-20 Big Timber WMA Clark 45,000 Includes 3,500 acres (Olds Foundation) added in 2018. Also known as Big Timber Leased Lands WMA. Private land owners including The Ross Foundation, Clark Timberlands, Anthony Timberlands. and Red River Texarkana that is managed by Hancock Forest Management giving annual leases to the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission.Big Timber Wildlife Management Area (by Randy Zellers Nov. 21, 2018)- Retrieved 2019-02-20 Blevins WMA Hempstead 128 1991Blevins Wildlife Management Area- Retrieved 2019-02-20 Blue Mountain WMA Logan 8,200 Corps of Engineers property.Blue Mountain Wildlife Management Area- Retrieved 2019-02-20 Brewer Lake Cypress Creek WMA Conway 1,200 Surrounds Brewer Lake.Brewer Lake Cypress Creek Wildlife Management Area- Retrieved 2019-02-20 Brushy Creek WMABrushy Creek Wildlife Management Area- Retrieved 2019-02-20 Cross 215 Co-op of private land owners that have joined.Brushy Creek Wildlife Management Co-op- Retrieved 2019-02-21 Buffalo National River WMA Baxter, Marion, Newton, Searcy 95,730 The entire 135 miles of the Buffalo National River is a WMA. Certain areas are also under national park regulations for hunting and fishing.NPS: Buffalo National River Wildlife Management Area- Retrieved 2019-02-21Pierce, Jason. “Creating the Natural State: Outsiders, Insiders, and the Buffalo National River.” Ozark Historical Review 35 (2006, pp. 34–49)- Retrieved 2019-02-21Encyclopedia of Arkansas: Buffalo National River Wildlife Management Area- Retrieved 2019-02-21 Camp Robinson WMACamp Robinson WMA- Retrieved 2019-02-21 Faulkner, Pulaski 26,675 Caney Creek WMA Howard, Montgomery, Pike, Polk 85,000 1968 Contains Caney Creek Wilderness Casey Jones WMA Ashley, Drew 83,832 Cattail Marsh WMA Greene 78 Cedar Creek WMA Scott 103 Cherokee Prairie Natural Area WMA Franklin 566 Cherokee WMA Cleburne, Conway, Independence, Logan, Pope, Scott, Stone, Van Buren 62,203 Cove Creek Natural Area WMA Faulkner 228 Crossett Experimental Forest WMA Ashley 1,675 Cut-Off Creek WMA Drew 9,314 Cypress Bayou WMA Lonoke, White 2,478 Dardanelle WMA Franklin, Johnson, Logan, Pope, Yell 42,658 Dave Donaldson Black River WMA Clay, Greene, Randolph 21,150 DeGray Lake WMA Clark, Hot Spring 14,000 Departee Creek WMA White 450 DeQueen Lake WMA Sevier 8,792 Owned by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.DeQueen Lake WMA- Retrieved 2019-02-21 Devil’s Knob Natural Area WMWA Izard 519 Dr. Lester Sitzes III Bois D’Arc WMA Hempstead 13,646 Earl Buss Bayou DeView WMA Poinsett 4,435 Ed Gordon Point Remove WMA Conway, Pope 8,694 Electric Island WMA Garland 115 Ethel WMA Arkansas 176 Formerly only open to residents of Ethel Falcon Bottoms Natural Area WMA Columbia, Lafayette, Nevada 2,787 Fort Chaffee WMA Crawford, Franklin, Sebastian 66,000 The WMA is within Fort Chaffee Maneuver Training Center area. WMA rules are in effect and a Sportsman’s Orientation class is compulsory.Land Conservation Assistance Network: Fort Chaffee WMA- Retrieved 2019-02-21 Freddie Black Choctaw Island WMA Deer Research Area East Unit Desha 8,300 Also referred to as the Choctaw Island WMA. The WMA is not a true island but includes the Choctaw Bar Island in the Mississippi RiverAudubon: Choctaw Island Wildlife Management Area- Retrieved 2018-02-21 Freddie Black Choctaw Island WMA Deer Research Area West Unit Desha Frog Bayou WMA Crawford 812 2005 Partnership with Ducks Unlimited and the U.S. Natural Resources Conservation Service and expanded in 2017 with The Trust for Public Land and Federal Aid in Wildlife Restoration money. The WMA is located along Frog Bayou, that is also known as Clear Creek, adjacent to U.S. Army Corps of Engineers land.Frog Bayou WMA- Retrieved 2019-02-22 Galla Creek WMA Pope 3,329 The Galla Creek WMA is among several others involving controversy of flooding protocols used in Greentree reservoir management that has seen deteriorated conditions and a substantial dying off of timber.Greentree Reservoir Management- Retrieved 2019-02-22Duck hunters realize changes necessary at green tree reservoirs (Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette)- Retrieved 2019-02-22 Garrett Hollow Natural Area WMA Washington 670 Gene Rush WMA Newton, Searcy 17,963 Goat's Beard Bluff Natural Area WMA Saline 540 2023 Along the Alum Fork of the Saline River in the transition zone between the Ouachita Mountains and Gulf Coastal Plain ecoregions Greers Ferry Lake WMA Cleburne, Van Buren 9,914 Gum Flats WMA Howard, Pike 15,661 H. E. Flanagan Prairie Natural Area WMA Franklin 457 The Arkansas Natural Heritage Commission (ANHC), a division of the Department of Arkansas Heritage added the property in 1988.H. E. Flanagan Prairie Natural Area WMA- Retrieved 2019-02-22 Along with the Presson-Oglesby Preserve (The Nature Conservancy, 155 acres), and the Cherokee Prairie (ANHC) are three contiguous tracts of protected prairie land.Nonnative Species Control at the Cherokee Prairies in the Arkansas River Valley (pp. 2)- Retrieved 2019-02-22 Hall Creek Barrens Natural Area WMAHall Creek Barrens Natural Area WMA- Retrieved 2019-02-22 Cleveland Harold E. Alexander Spring River WMA Sharp 13,859 Harris Brake WMA Perry 3,769 Henry Gray Hurricane Lake WMA White 17,524 Hobbs State Park – Conservation Area WMA Benton, Carroll, Madison 11,744 Holland Bottoms WMA Lonoke 6,190 Hope Upland WMA Hempstead 2,115 Hot Springs State Forest WMA Garland 2974 2023 Contains the recharge area for hot springs near Hot Springs National Park, partially within city limits of Hot Springs, Arkansas Howard County WMAHoward 26,000 Howard Hensley Searcy County WMA Searcy 170 Iron Mountain Natural Area WMA Polk 260 Jamestown Independence County WMA Independence 971 Jim Kress WMA Cleburne 14,527 Jones Point WMA Marion 1,200 Kingsland Prairie Natural Area WMA Cleveland 400 Lafayette County Natural Area WMA Lafayette 16,739 Lake Greeson Natural Area WMA Howard, Pike 200 Lee County WMA Lee 200 Little Bayou WMA Ashley 1,284 Little River WMA Hempstead, Little River 597 Loafer’s Glory WMA 2,616 Maumelle River WMA Pulaski McIlroy Madison County WMA Madison 14,496 Mike Freeze Wattensaw WMA Prairie 19,184 Moro Big Pine Natural Area WMA Calhoun 16,000 Mount Magazine WMA Logan, Yell 120,000 Muddy Creek WMA Montgomery, Scott, Yell 146,206 Nacatoch Ravines Natural Area WMA Hempstead 645 Nimrod/Lloyd Millwood WMA Yell 3,550 Norfork Lake WMA Baxter 10,000 Ozan WMA Hempstead 580 Ozark Lake WMA Crawford, Franklin 7,834 Palmetto Flats Natural Area Little River 1848 Petit Jean River WMA Yell 15,502 Pine City Natural Area WMA Monroe 870 Piney Creeks WMA Johnson, Newton, Pope 180,000 Poison Springs WMA Nevada, Ouachita 17,604 Prairie Bayou WMA Lonoke 453 Provo WMASevier 11,327 R. L. Hankins Mud Creek Upland WMA Randolph 1,025 1989 Deeded by FMHA.R. L. Hankins Mud Creek Upland WMA- Retrieved 2019-02-22 Railroad Prairie Natural Area WMA Prairie 244 Rainey WMA Pope 488 Rex Hancock Black Swamp WMA Woodruff 7,221 Rick Evans Grandview Prairie WMA Hempstead 4,885 Ring Slough WMA Clay 83 River Bend WMA Perry Roth Prairie Natural Area WMA Arkansas 41 Sandhills Natural Area WMA Miller 143 Scott Henderson Gulf Mountain WMA Van Buren 14,000 1970 Created as "Gulf Mountain WMA" with an initial purchase of 6,400 acres. A 3,600-acre purchase and smaller tracts totaling 2,012 was added in 1971. 2,000 acres of Green Bay Packaging's Arkansas Mill division land was added to the WMA. The company owns over 250,000 acres in the state and this was part of the companies "Sustainable Forestry Initiative".Arkansas Mill division- Retrieved 2019-02-22 Located 12 miles southwest of Clinton the Little Red River bisects the southern area and the Ozark National Forest is the northern boundary.Gulf Mountain WMA- Retrieved 2019-02-22 Seven Devils WMA Drew 5,032 Sheffield Nelson Dagmar WMA Monroe 9,720 Shirey Bay Rainey Brake WMA Lawrence 10,711 Slippery Hollow Natural Area WMA Marion 705 Spring Bank WMA Lafayette 701 St. Francis National Forest WMALee, Phillips St. Francis Sunken Lands WMA Craighead, Greene, Poinsett, Clay 27,643 Patchwork of state and privately held lands along the St. Francis River preserving bottomland hardwood forest river bottoms, well known for waterfowl and deer hunting. Stateline Sandponds Natural Area WMA Clay 4,000 Steve N. Wilson Raft Creek Bottoms WMA White 4,000 Sugarloaf Mountains-Midland Peak Natural Area WMA Sebastian 1191 2023 Sulphur River WMA Miller 16,681 Sweden Creek Natural Area WMA Madison 137 Sylamore WMA Baxter, Marion, Searcy, Stone 150,000 Terre Noire Natural Area WMA Clark 415 Trusten Holder WMA Arkansas, Desha 8,173 Two Bayou Creek WMA Ouachita 1,250 W.E. Brewer Scatter Creek WMA Greene Warren Prairie Natural Area WMA Bradley, Drew 2,128 Wedington WMA Benton, Washington 16,000 White Cliffs Natural Area WMA Little River 573 White Rock WMA Crawford, Franklin, Johnson, Madison, Franklin, Washington 280,000 Whitehall WMA Poinsett 111 Winona WMA Garland, Perry, Saline 160,000

Former WMAs + Wildlife Management Areas in Arkansas Name County or counties Area (acres) Year Established Year Dissolved Remarks Ozark National Forest WMA Conway, Crawford, Frankliln, Johnson, Madison, Newton, Pope, Searcy, Van Buren, Washington 678,878 2023 Merged into neighboring WMAs

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