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  Felsenthal National Wildlife Refuge
Felsenthal Refuge is home to bald eagles during the winter as these magnificent birds follow waterfowl down the flyway.
Felsenthal NWR is on the northern edge of the American alligator's range.
Felsenthal is the world's largest green-tree reservoir consisting of the 15,000-acre Felsenthal Pool that is more than doubled to 36,000 acres during winter flooding.
www.arkansasstripers.com /felsenthal.htm   (546 words)

  
 Felsenthal Arkansas Resource Guide, City or community of Felsenthal, Arkansas Facts, Information, Relocation, Real ...
The population of Felsenthal is approximately 95 (1990).
The distance from Felsenthal to Washington DC is 970 miles.
Felsenthal is positioned 33.05 degrees north of the equator and 92.15 degrees west of the prime meridian.
www.usacitiesonline.com /arcountyfelsenthal.htm   (195 words)

  
 Arkansas museums and Arkansas State Parks
Arkansas' South features fascinating Arkansas museums, which are available for tours filled with artifacts, photographs, fossils and other artifacts, oil boom era memorabilia, bookstore and gift shops.
Felsenthal National Wildlife Refuge - covering 65,000 acres in Ashley, Bradley and Union Counties, Felesenthal NWR is the world's largest green-tree reservoir.
Arkansas Museum of Natural Resources - This state museum between El Dorado and Smackover on Scenic Highway 7 tells the story of the early 1920's oil boom in South Arkansas and the oil and brine industry past, present and future.
www.arkansassouth.com /parks-museums   (1079 words)

  
 Arkansas News Bureau - Deer hunter meets a bear near Felsenthal NWR
Crossett is next door to Felsenthal National Wildlife Refuge, where several dozen bears have been relocated in a multiyear project of the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
Felsenthal hasn't had bears, but the White River National Wildlife Refuge a hundred-plus miles to the north has, and it has too many of them.
Bucklew is a recent transplant to Arkansas, moving from Houston to Maumelle and working as a registered nurse with a Little Rock hospital.
www.arkansasnews.com /archive/2004/12/04/JoeMosby/311068.html   (816 words)

  
 Arkansas Fishing - Fly Fishing - Bass Fishing - Equipment, Boats, Gear & Vacation Trip Ideas
The state of Arkansas offers a variety of fishing for a variety of bass including striped bass, largemouths, smallmouths, white, spotted and rock bass.
Also included will be a section providing information on AR fishing organizations including Arkansas Fish, Game and Wildlife agencies, fishing associations, fishing clubs, tournament organizations and fishing publications which offer information specifically about fishing in Arkansas.
A Arkansas Business Directory is also included to provide our visitors with direct access to fishing and outdoor activity-related websites and business resources.
www.aa-fishing.com /ar/arkansas-fishing.html   (640 words)

  
 Bald eagles - ivory billed woodpeckers - Arkansas   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Though the southward migration in late summer and fall generally yields fewer species than the spring migration, it is the time of year when such post-breeding wanderers as roseate spoonbills, wood storks and grove-billed ani are most likely to stray into the southern reaches of the state.
Arkansas has available for birding enthusiasts vast amounts of public lands with generally open access, including the Ouachita, Ozark and St. Francis National Forests and numerous state wildlife management areas.
Felsenthal is home to the state's largest population of the red-cockaded woodpecker.
www.arkansas.com /outdoors/Bird-Watching   (1029 words)

  
 DINA: Southwest Arkansas: State & National Parks   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Come visit the "Little Williamsburg of Arkansas" where James Bowie forged his famous knife; where the state capitol of Arkansas was moved during the Civil War and where weary travelers stopped to rest on their way to the Indian territories in the West.
Off Arkansas 160 west of Bradley, the state's first governor, James Sevier Conway, is buried here in the original family graveyard on his "Walnut Hill" cotton plantation.
Off Arkansas 7 at the historic city of Hot Springs, the surrounding state park is well-known for its 47 thermal springs and covers about 5,500 acres.
swapdd.dina.org /recreation/stparks.html   (714 words)

  
 Media Information
Each is an independent organization, managed by local citizens to support the mission of their area wildlife refuge and advocate educational and recreational programs that involve the community and perhaps attract more visitors.
The Felsenthal and White River national wildlife refuges have active groups.
The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission manages the Big Lake Wildlife Management Area, which covers 12,000 acres immediately adjacent to the refuge and includes Lake Mallard, where the state-record largemouth bass (16-pound, 4-ounces) was landed in 1976.
www.arkansasstateparks.com /media/display.asp?id=172   (629 words)

  
 Arkansas News Bureau - Florida Panthers could return to Arkansas
WASHINGTON --- The Bush administration has drafted a plan recommending Arkansas be considered as a new home for the Florida panther.
The plan states that two areas in Arkansas would be optimal for the panthers.
They are the 1.2 million acre Ozark National Forest and the 65,000-acre Felsenthal National Wildlife Refuge near Crossett in southeast Arkansas.
www.arkansasnews.com /archive/2006/02/23/WashingtonDCBureau/334335.html   (491 words)

  
 Felsenthal National Wildlife Refuge
Established in 1975, Felsenthal National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) is located in southeast Arkansas, approximately eight miles west of the town of Crossett.
This low lying area is dissected by an intricate system of rivers, creeks, sloughs, buttonbush swamps and lakes throughout a vast bottomland hardwood forest that gradually rises to an upland forest community.
Felsenthal NWR is home to the worlds largest green-tree reservoir consisting of the 15,000 acre Felsenthal Pool that is more than doubled to 36,000 acres during winter-time flooding.
www.fws.gov /refuges/profiles/index.cfm?id=43579   (352 words)

  
 News & Featured Releases: Arkansas Media Room
At the Arkansas Museum of Natural Resources at Smackover, the history of the state’s “oil boom” is told through films, historic photographs, geological and other exhibits, oil-era memorabilia and the Oil Field Park, which displays derricks and pumping equipment.
Felsenthal National Wildlife Refuge — This 65,000-acre refuge in south central Arkansas, which contains the world’s largest green-tree reservoir, is widely regarded as one of the state’s best fishing venues.
Millwood has attracted migratory sea birds and shorebirds seldom, if ever, seen elsewhere in the state; and due to its extreme southwestern Arkansas location, the lake is sometimes visited by species straying outside their normal ranges farther south and west.
www.arkansasmediaroom.com /news-releases/listings/display.asp?id=723   (1313 words)

  
 Activities & Education: State of Arkansas Retirement and Relocation: Arkansas Parks & Tourism
The National Park Service describes the Cossatot River as "probably the most challenging" white-water float in the state, something the early Native Americans knew when they named it Cossatot, or "skull crusher." Much of the river's white water is not recommended for the inexperienced canoeist, and experienced river-runners should always check water levels in advance.
Lake Ouachita, near Hot Springs, is famous for its monster stripers, lunker bass, walleye and crappie, while Beaver Lake in northwest Arkansas teems with striped, largemouth and smallmouth bass, bluegill, and catfish.
The Felsenthal Refuge is home to thousands of migrant and resident waterfowl - perfect for fishing and hunting.
www.relocatetoarkansas.com /activities-education/outdoors.asp   (1006 words)

  
 Arkanasas' 2006 Deer Hunting Prospects
When Felsenthal NWR was formed back in 1970, it was generally touted as being, at least potentially, another White River.
Last year gun hunting on Felsenthal consisted of a two-day muzzleloader season in mid-October with a pair of two-day modern gun hunts on the first two weekends in November.
Locals have told me that one reason more and bigger bucks aren't killed at Felsenthal is because to have find them you have to get back into more remote parts of the swamps with deeper water, and most hunters don't do that.
www.arkansassportsmanmag.com /hunting/AR_1106_01/index2.html   (672 words)

  
 Arkansas wildlife – Arkansas outdoors – Arkansas Game and Fish Commission
Arkansas wildlife, such as the fl bear, wild turkey, elk and more than one million white-tailed deer, the
Arkansas outdoors a natural for small-game hunters as well.
Arkansas is an angler's paradise and is home to several world-record fish, including brown trout, walleye and hybrid bass.
www.agfc.state.ar.us /fishing/20040331_fr.html   (346 words)

  
 Fishing Report   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Arkansas River: Charley’s Hidden Harbor near Oppelo said the river flow is 56,500 cubic feet with the headwater level at 285.22 and the tailwater is at 270.75 at Lock #9.
Felsenthal: Benson’s Grocery and Bait said crappie fishing is good using jigs or shiners.
Mississippi River: Arkansas Outdoors said the river is rising and a few catfish are being caught on trotlines.
www.outdoorcentral.com /mc/pr/04/04/07b5.asp   (3577 words)

  
 Felsenthal, Arkansas (AR) population and demographics data - Sperling's BestPlaces
As of 2005, Felsenthal's population is 152 people.
Compared to the rest of the country, Felsenthal's cost of living is 26.00 % lower than the U.S. average.
The unemployment rate in Felsenthal is 7.00 percent (U.S. avg.
www.bestplaces.net /city/profile.aspx?ccity=&city=Felsenthal_AR   (101 words)

  
 Wapanocca National Wildlife Refuge, an Arkansas State Park near Jonesboro, Memphis, Millington, West Memphis
Wapanocca NWR located 20 miles northwest of Memphis, Tennessee, in Crittenden County, Arkansas was established in 1961 to provided habitat for migrating and wintering waterfowl.
Due to loss of the major water source for the 600 acre Wapanocca Lake, fisheries has declined from historical levels, but the lake is still a major attraction for waterfowl to this area.
Bird Checklists of the United States - Bird Checklists of the United States Wapanocca National Wildlife Refuge Turrell, Arkansas Wapanocca National Wildlife Refuge is located in Crittenden County in the delta of northeastern Arkansas...
www.stateparks.com /wapanocca.html   (610 words)

  
 Red cockaded woodpecker sounds - habitat of the red cockaded woodpecker
Their decline is attributed primarily to the reduction of pine trees of sufficient age for nesting and to fire suppression, which results in the encroachment of hardwood, mid-story vegetation in the open, park-like forests in which the bird prefers to nest.
Arkansas's largest contiguous population of Red-cockaded Woodpeckers can be found in the 65,000-acre Felsenthal National Wildlife Refuge near the state's southern border.
The center may be contacted by phone at (870) 364-3167 and by e-mail at felsenthal@fws.gov.
www.birdinginarkansas.com /birding/red-cockaded-woodpecker.asp   (399 words)

  
 Southern Arkansas travel - Arkansas' South
Discover the remarkable hunting, fishing and birding opportunities of the Felsenthal National Wildlife Refuge or take a float trip down the beautiful Ouachita (Wash-I-taw) River.
With Arkansas's natural beauty and abundant year-round outdoor adventure opportunities, the Arkansas South is a great place to enjoy a thrilling sportsman's outing or active family vacation.
Wherever you go in Southern Arkansas, you'll meet friendly hosts who will welcome the opportunity to share colorful stories of our regions' rich history and heritage.
www.arkansassouth.com   (321 words)

  
 Archives: Story
The Felsenthal National Wildlife Refuge is among the top three places that the U. Fish and Wildlife Service is considering as possible relocation sites for the Florida panther, according to the latest draft of a recovery plan for the endangered species.
The Arkansas Supreme Court, in an unanimous decision announced Thursday, February 9, rejected a motion to reopen the case of Roger Lewis Coulter, who an Ashley County Circuit Court jury convicted of capital murder in October, 1989.
Arkansas Secretary of State Charlie Daniels will be the featured speaker for the Hamburg Area Chamber of Commerce's annual banquet.
www.ashleycountyledger.com /articles/2006/02/17/news/h16f222.txt   (2348 words)

  
 GORP - Felsenthal National Wildlife Refuge - Arkansas
The 65,000-acre Felsenthal National Wildlife Refuge, established in 1975, is in the Felsenthal Basin of south central Arkansas.
Felsenthal Refuge is home for thousands of migrant and resident waterfowl, marsh and water birds, neotropical migrants, resident wildlife and has the highest density of endangered red-cockaded woodpeckers in the state.
Management of the 50,000 acres of forest habitat and the 15,000-acre navigation pool, including the world's largest greentree reservoir, is the "backbone" of Felsenthal's complex operational programs.
gorp.away.com /gorp/resource/us_nwr/ar_felse.htm   (296 words)

  
 BLACK BEAR CONSERVATION COMMITTEE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
In Arkansas, bears are being moved from White River National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) to Felsenthal NWR.
The existing healthy bear population in the Ozark and Ouachita National Forests in northwestern Arkansas is the result of a very successful repatriation effort in the 1950's and 60's.
Thirty five of the 37 bears were released on Felsenthal NWR; 2 bears with cubs were released on Deltic Timber Company lands adjacent to the refuge.
bbcc.org /research/movingbears/movingbears.htm   (1255 words)

  
 NPWRC :: Bird Checklists of the United States
Felsenthal National Wildlife Refuge, established in 1975 as mitigation for the U.S. Corps of Engineers Ouachita and Black Rivers Navigation Project, is managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
The refuge is located in south central Arkansas on U.S. Highway 82, approximately 7 miles west of Crossett.
Felsenthal Refuge is located in the Mississippi Flyway, one of four major flyways in North America used by migratory birds.
www.npwrc.usgs.gov /resource/birds/chekbird/r4/felsenth.htm   (1137 words)

  
 Ouachita River (Lower): Lakes & Rivers: Arkansas Parks & Tourism
Below Lake Ouachita, the Ouachita River continues through the Ouachita Mountains, though two dams interrupt its flow near the resort town of Hot Springs to form lakes Hamilton and Catherine.
Before crossing the state's southern border, the stream passes near the towns of Smackover and El Dorado, key sites in southern Arkansas's oil history, and through the Felsenthal National Wildlife Refuge east of Crossett.
The Felsenthal refuge is one of southern Arkansas's most renowned fishing venues.
www.arkansas.com /lakes-rivers/river/id/36   (260 words)

  
 Felsenthal National Wildlife Refuge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Felsenthal National Wildlife Refuge is a 65,000 acre (263 km²) wildlife refuge located in south-central Arkansas in Ashley, Bradley, and Union counties.
The Felsenthal National Wildlife Refuge is a wetlands complex near Lake Jack Lee, which is located on the confluence of the Saline and Ouachita Rivers.
It is made up of various streams, creeks, lakes, and sloughs.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Felsenthal_National_Wildlife_Refuge   (227 words)

  
 Lower Saline River, Arkansas
The Ouachita River roughly parallels the Saline River to the west, and Bayou Bartholomew and the Arkansas River follow a similar path to the east.
Central and southcentral Arkansas, in Saline, Grant, Dallas, Cleveland and Bradley Counties, between Benton and Felsenthal National Wildlife Refuse near the Louisiana State Line.
This is not a major paddling destination for most paddlers, but the Saline River usually has adequate flow when most other Arkansas streams are too low to paddle, and the wildlife you will see along the way rivals any other part of this gorgeous state that prides itself on its immense natural grandeur.
southwestpaddler.com /docs/ouachita14.html   (1133 words)

  
 Felsenthal, Arkansas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Felsenthal is a town in Union County, Arkansas, United States.
It is near the center of the Felsenthal National Wildlife Refuge.
Felsenthal is located at 33°3′22″N, 92°9′7″W (33.056191, -92.151853)
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Felsenthal,_Arkansas   (381 words)

  
 data by county
This flock of birds was observed resting and occasionally feeding on one of the water-filled impoundments at this Refuge.
Uncommon in Arkansas – rare in Desha County.
Typical 1st year juvenile bird with the distinctive white patches on the wings, base of tail white with outer dark band on the end; golden nape was visible through scope at 20-40x.
www.arbirds.org /data/coucs-he.htm   (1424 words)

  
 Felsenthal, AR (Union County) - town travel guide - ePodunk
Arkansas > All counties > Union County > Felsenthal Town
Felsenthal is a small community, with a population of 152, in the Ouachitas region
Churches, other places of worship in or near Felsenthal
www.epodunk.com /cgi-bin/travInfo.php?locIndex=11495   (187 words)

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