Arkansas Acres for Wildlife
Arkansas Acres for Wildlife is an important segment of the AGFC-Cooperative Extension Service's wildlife enhancement program. It encourages landowners to preserve or create wildlife habitat by setting aside at least one acre of their holdings for the benefit of wildlife.
Landowners who want to help wildlife will find the Arkansas Acres for Wildlife program ready to work for them. Almost all land in Arkansas is eligible. Ineligible lands are those in cities, towns, parks and recreation areas, and public wildlife management areas where wildlife management is already the primary use of the land.
Areas to be enrolled must be at least one acre, and cooperators must agree to maintain existing wildlife habitat or, if necessary, improve or create wildlife habitat on the areas for at least one year. In some situations, two half acre or four quarter acre areas may be more desirable than a one acre plot. Plots must be at least a quarter-acre and total at least one acre.
Food plots might be one of the wildlife management practices performed on farms. However, the intent of the program is not just to plant food plots but rather to save, improve or create wildlife habitat.
This program does not retire cropland or grazing land. Neither does it open posted land to hunters; this is left entirely to the discretion of the landowner.
Cooperators enrolled by early February will, if they wish, receive one or more 5 pound packages of Korean lespedeza seed in early March. This package contains a sufficient amount of lespedeza seed to seed a quarter acre to one third acre plot or a quarter mile, 10-foot wide woods or field border. Lespedeza and food plot seed packets will vary from year-to-year, depending upon the number of requests.
Food plot seed mix packets are distributed in late April. These packets contain 7 pounds of mixed browntop millet, Laredo soybeans, redripper cowpeas, and combine grain sorghum. This amount will also plant one quarter-acre plot.
Download the Enrollment Form and Information Sheet by clicking on the hyperlink below. If you would rather have the form mailed to you, call the AGFC's Wildlife Management Division at (501) 223-6359.
Enrollment Form