Arkansas Tourism
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The Banner Photographs for this web site are compliments of the Arkansas Department of Parks and Tourism . Shown are photos of Wittaker Point in Arkansas' Ozark Mountains, a concert at Riverfront Park Amphitheatre in Little Rock, and Lake Chicot State Park in Southeast Arkansas. ... [Read More]
Governor Mike Huckabee of Arkansas
In 1996 during his first months in office, Huckabee led the fight for Amendment 75 to the Arkansas Constitution. The amendment created a sales tax of one-eighth of a cent that benefits the state Department of Parks and Tourism, the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission, the Department of Arkansas Heritage and the Keep Arkansas Beautiful Commission. Proceeds from the amendment have allowed Arkansas to build the finest system of state parks in the country along with a system of state-of-the-art nature centers operated by the Game and Fish Commission. The first of those nature centers at Pine Bluff was named after the governor in recognition of his conservation efforts. Huckabee, a noted outdoorsman, was honored in 1997 as the American Sportfishing Association Man of the Year and was inducted in 2000 to the Arkansas Outdoor Hall of Fame. ... [Read More]
Governor Mike Huckabee of Arkansas
The state operates 12 welcome centers. The $2.7 million facility at Van Buren covers 6,000 square feet. It has a stone and log exterior. The new center replaces a 2,000-square-foot facility built in 1970. The welcome center features large video monitors devoted to news, weather and tourism promotion. The center will offer free coffee and provide display space for more than 1,000 tourism brochures. ... The event was held to publicize Arkansas Heritage Month in May. The governor announced that the ivory-billed woodpecker, a bird that once flourished in the forests of the South but was thought to be extinct, has been discovered in the hardwood bottoms of east Arkansas. With bird watching one of the nation's fastest growing recreational activities, state officials are hopeful that tourism to Arkansas will increase. ... [Read More]
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