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Wildlife Festival planned at White River Refuge
ST. CHARLES - White River National Wildlife Refuge will host its third annual Wildlife Festival on Saturday, Oct. 8, at the refuge visitor's center located off Arkansas Highway 1 about a quarter mile south of St. Charles.

Events include wildlife programs and seminars, White River boat tours, morning guided walks and activities for children. The festival will also provide an opportunity for viewing newly installed exhibits in the center.

Festival hours will be 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. There is no charge for the activities, including the boat tours, will be free. The non-profit Friends of the White River National Wildlife Refuge will sell refreshments with proceeds to benefit the group’s activities.

Among the wildlife programs will be a presentation on the Ivory-billed Woodpecker, a bird long believed extinct until rediscovered in 2004 living in the Big Woods region of Eastern Arkansas; the Little Rock Zoo’s birds of prey program; and a nature photography workshop.

Activities for children will include birdhouse and birdfeeder construction, T-shirt printing using animal stamps, button making and face painting.  Round-trip shuttles will operate from the center to the boat-tour launch site. Tours will depart hourly from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Established in 1935, the refuge is the largest of the 10 federal wildlife refuges located in Arkansas, covering some 160,000 acres along the lower 90 miles of the White. For more festival information, phone (870) 282-8238. Additional refuge information is available online at http://whiteriver.fws.gov.

 

 

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