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Seven Devils WMA project to get a partnership boost
MONTICELLO - "Let the government do it" just doesn't get the job done with many wildlife projects.

Partnerships - public agencies, conservation organizations and private citizens - are joining hands these days to achieve major accomplishments. And the upcoming Seven Devils event isn't named for the participants by any means.

Seven Devils Wildlife Management Area in southeast Arkansas near Monticello has a unique name all right, and it's a popular green-tree reservoir area with game animals, hunters and fishermen who use it.

With some help in the form of a longer, larger levee, the lowland area could be much more attractive to wintering ducks especially. That's the focus of a fundraiser on Thursday, April 7, at the War Eagle boat manufacturing plant in Monticello. It will begin at 6 p.m. and will be put on by Ducks Unlimited along with War Eagle. The proceeds will go to the Seven Devils project.

What is planned at the management area is a major extension of the existing levee across Cut-Off Creek. The levee will be extended on both ends, a total of 2,100 feet. This will require clearing of about six acres of bottomland and moving about 9,000 cubic yards of earth. Extensive riprap will be put in place, and three gear-operated water control gates will be installed.

When finished, the project will increase the green-tree reservoir, which is seasonally flooded, from 600 acres to about 2,000 acres.

The Seven Devils project will carry the name of Kim Ward by action of the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission at its March meeting in Little Rock. Ward is chairman of War Eagle Boats and has a long-standing interest in Seven Devils and the outdoor habitat and activities of southeast Arkansas. War Eagle has been the official Ducks Unlimited boat for the past eight years. Ward's son Mike, president of War Eagle, is coordinating the fund-raising banquet.

The event will be under a tent on the front lawn of War Eagle's manufacturing facility on Arkansas Highway 35 in the southeast section of Monticello. Auction items will include a collector's 1929 L.C. Smith shotgun, Yamaha four-wheeler, several hunts with nationally-known sportsmen, a NASCAR "experience" and War Eagle boats. The AGFC has also "donated" a satellite duck - a winning bidder will have his or her name attached to one of the electronically monitored mallards in an ongoing research project.

Along with the Monticello chapter of DU, War Eagle and the AGFC, The Nature Conservancy is a sponsor of the Seven Devils enhancement project.

Tickets to the banquet are $30 a person or $50 for a couple, and several packages are available for sponsors and corporate participants. Contact Mike Ward at (870) 364-0000 for more information.

 

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