BRIEFLY

Dutch Oven Cooking Set

Learn to cook with a Dutch oven, then take the oven home with you during a workshop at 10 a.m. on Saturday at Withrow Springs State Park.

Cost is $75 and includes a 4-quart Dutch oven. Chefs will cook various recipes then share the feast.

To register, call the park at 479-559-2593.

Cleanup Offers Lunch, Prizes

The annual Beaver Lake Cleanup will be Sept. 29, with the post-cleanup lunch and festivities set for the Grand Shelter at Prairie Creek park.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers sponsors the event for volunteers to pick up litter along the Beaver Lake shoreline.

Trash bags are provided and volunteers may get them after 8 a.m. at Hickory Creek, Rocky Branch, Prairie Creek and Dam Site parks.

Lunch is served to all volunteers starting at 11:30 a.m. Prize giveaways follow the meal.

Corps Hosts Disabled Veterans

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will hold its eighth annual Disabled Veterans Hunt on Dec. 13-14 at Dam Site Park on Beaver Lake.

Four hunters will be selected to hunt deer at the 500-acre park. The deadline to apply is Nov. 10.

Contact park ranger Jared Trammell at the corps’ Beaver

Lake office, 479-636-1210,

for application information.

Carry Hunter

Education Card

Hunters are reminded that a hunter born after 1968 must carry a vaild hunter education carn, unless HE-VERIFIED, is noted on the hunting license.

Hunters under 16 do not need a card if they are under the direct supervision of an adult who is at least 21 and possesses hunter education certification and who was born after 1969.

Arkansas honors the homestate hunter education cards of nonresidents.

Paddle Trips Offered

Lewis & Clark Outfitters hosts weekly group paddling trips from 6 to 8 p.m. each Thursday on Beaver Lake near the U.S. 412 bridge.

Paddlers should bring their own canoe or kayak. Meet at Bryce’s White River Marine boat ramp near the bridge.

Trips explore bluffs and other landmarks on this section of Beaver Lake.

For details call the Springdale store at 479-756-1344.

STAFF REPORT

Outdoor, Pages 7 on 09/20/2012

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