Monticello Live

Going the “extra distance” was something Austin Powell strived for to be a college athlete, and putting that motto to use as an Arkansas Game and Fish Commission game warden has helped him make several big cases in just four years on the job.

The 26-year-old, based out of the AGFC Enforcement Division’s Monticello office, dedicated many man hours to his caseload, but he also put time this past year into building a love of the outdoors among youths through such events as the National Wild Turkey Federation’s JAKES Day in Rison. For his work, Powell became among the youngest winners ever of the AGFC’s Monty Carmikle Officer of the Year Award, presented in late July.

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The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission (AGFC) is finalizing a process to develop a statewide Reservoir Black Bass Management Plan. This plan provides broad guidance on policies addressing the complex management challenges and issues related to producing desirable fishing experiences for black bass in Arkansas’s lakes and reservoirs. The plan results from a collaboration between the AGFC and a Stakeholder Advisory Committee (citizen volunteers representing a cross-section of black bass fishing interests). It includes management goals that reflect stakeholder values, specific objectives designed to attain each goal, and potential general strategies for achieving objectives. The plan provides broad guidance for the AGFC Commissioners and AGFC staff for managing black bass in Arkansas’s lakes and reservoirs. (more…)