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White River access to be renamed in honor of Forrest L. and Nina Wood
BULL SHOALS - For many years Forrest L. and Nina M. Wood have worked to preserve the White River in northern Arkansas.  They will be honored for that dedication with the renaming of the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission’s Rivercliff Access in Marion County

The access will be renamed the Forrest and Nina Wood State Park Access.  The access is located just below the Bull Shoals Dam in north central Arkansas. Dedication ceremonies will be held on June 17 beginning at 12:30 p.m. The ceremonies are timed to follow Forrest's last meeting as a commissioner with the AGFC. The commission meeting will be held at the Forrest L. Wood Outdoor Sports Gallery in Flippin. Wood was the first Marion County resident to be appointed to the Game and Fish Commission.

J.A. and Nancy Morgan, ancestors of Nina (Kirkland) Wood, homesteaded the site of the access. Her maternal grandparents, Jim and Mattie (Morgan) Swan and her parents, Floyd and Myrtle (Swan) Kirkland farmed the land prior to the dam’s construction. Forrest and Nina owned and operated the State Park Boat Dock and a float trip service at the site in the late 60s.

Forrest and Nina, with their famous Ranger Boats, are strongly established in the forefront of the sport fishing industry with Forrest as the namesake of the premier Wal-Mart FLW tournaments.

They have four daughters: Brenda Hopper, Linda Daffron, Rhonda Layton, and Donna Alexander as well as eleven grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.

 

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