OPINION | REX NELSON

America’s Amazon: Interest in Woodruff County is rising with the recent addition of goose hunting to its other outdoor recreation opportunities

Established attractions include fishing, boating, birding

February 25, 2024 at 7:12 a.m.

by Rex Nelson

An Arkansas Game & Fish officer stands on a huge cypress tree in bottomlands along the Cache River and Bayou DeView in 1978. “Some of the oldest and biggest cypress trees in the world are in this county,” Woodruff County Judge Michael John Gray says. “When people learn about what’s here, they want to come back.” (Democrat-Gazette file photo)
An Arkansas Game & Fish officer stands on a huge cypress tree in bottomlands along the Cache River and Bayou DeView in 1978. “Some of the oldest and biggest cypress trees in the world are in this county,” Woodruff County Judge Michael John Gray says. “When people learn about what’s here, they want to come back.” (Democrat-Gazette file photo)


The phone rang early one morning back in 2018. On the line was the man who at the time was chairman of the Arkansas Democratic Party, Michael John Gray of Augusta.

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