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LITTLE ROCK (KATV) — Fire managers with the National Forest are conducting prescribed burns in the Ouachita and Ozark- St. Francis National Forest on Sunday. The fire managers pay very close ...
Ouachita National Forest officials have temporarily closed off Forest Service Road 19 in Scott County because recent inclement weather caused a landslide, the U.S. Forest Service said Monday.
HOT SPRINGS, Ark. – Recent storms throughout the Ouachita National Forest areas have prompted forest officials to temporary close the Day Use area at Albert Pike Recreation Area in Montgomery ...
OUACHITA NATIONAL FOREST, Ark. (KATV) -- The state of Arkansas was once known as the bear state, and for good reason. Still today, the black bear population is steadily increasing across the state ...
U.S. Rep. French Hill wants the Ouachita National Forest to become a major outdoors destination. Troy Heithecker, the new supervisor for the Ouachita National Forest, seemed to embrace the ...
"The quarantine means that firewood collected in one of those counties must be used in the same county and cannot be removed," said Steve Cole, Ouachita National Forest Integrated Resources Leader.
A committee for the U.S. House of Representatives greenlighted a bill that would open up a spot in the Ouachita National Forest to overnight campers once again. The Albert Pike Recreation Area has ...
President Joe Biden has signed a law that, among other things, will allow overnight camping in the Albert Pike Recreation Area of the Ouachita National Forest, where 20 people died in a flash ...
The Conservation Fund announced on March 9 its plan to turn 11,300 acres of forest land into Oklahoma's first state forest. The 11,300-acre forest is located east of the Ouachita National Forest ...
U.S. Rep. French Hill wants the Ouachita National Forest to become a major outdoors destination. Troy Heithecker, the new supervisor for the Ouachita National Forest, seemed to embrace the ...