SPRINGDALE — The Ozark Society will host a 5-mile bushwhack hike into Dismal Hollow south of Boxley on Saturday.
All hikers are welcome. The hike is rated difficult. Features include gorges, vistas, bluffs and waterfalls.
Contact trip leader Bob Cross at 479-587-8757.
Bridge To Replace ‘Slab’ On Creek
YELLVILLE - The concrete lowwater bridge on Crooked Creek known as Kelly’s Slab is coming down.
The slab bridge is hurting smallmouth bass, the very fish that brings anglers to Crooked Creek.
The Arkansas Game & Fish Commission plans to remove a big chunk of the bridge to allow Crooked Creek to flow the way nature intended to boost smallmouth habitat.
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act awarded a $250,000 contract to Game & Fish to build a new higher bridge upstream from Kelly’s Slab and to convert parts of the remaining slab to handicapped accessible fishing. An eroding stream bank will also be repaired.
Steve Filipek, assistant chief of fisheries at Game & Fish, said Crooked Creek is one of the nation’s top smallmouth bass streams.
Outdoor, Pages 8 on 11/12/2009
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