Time running out for WRICE, WMA permits

Hunters need to apply now for last days of 2022-23 duck season

By Jim Harris

AGFC Wildlife Editor

This week will mark the last application period available for both WRICE Program private lant permits and for WMA permits that will be offered for the last weekend of the season, Jan. 28-29. The waterfowl season in Arkansas officially closes on Jan. 31, and permits for WMAs that require them will be available on visitors’ kiosks for the final day (the youth and mobility-impaired blinds at Steve N. Wilson Raft Creek Bottoms WMA still much be applied for this week for Jan. 31). The application period begins at 3 p.m.

Thursday and concludes at midnight Sunday. Winners of permits will be notified on Monday, Jan. 23, for the upcoming weekend and the permit days that follow Jan. 31.

Visit agfc.com for more information on all waterfowl hunting permits offered or to be directed to the application site (found under “Buy License-Check Game”). Each application is $5. Hunters may only apply for one WRICE field per week, but you are allowed a first and second choice of fields. WRICE permits are for the entire weekend, from 30 minutes before sunrise to sunset, and the winning hunter may bring three other hunters. Permits in Raft Creek Bottoms, Sheffield Nelson Dagmar WMA and Red Cut Slough, including the youth and mobilityimpaired blinds in Raft Creek, are for one day of the two-day weekend, opening up opportunity for hunters to try for either

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This week will mark the last application period available for both WRICE Program private lant permits and for WMA permits that will be offered for the last weekend of the season, Jan. 28-29. The waterfowl season in Arkansas officially closes on Jan. 31, and permits for WMAs that require them will be available on visitors’ kiosks for the final day (the youth and mobility-impaired blinds at Steve N. Wilson Raft Creek Bottoms WMA still much be applied for this week for Jan. 31). The application period begins at 3 p.m.

Thursday and concludes at midnight Sunday. Winners of permits will be notified on Monday, Jan. 23, for the upcoming weekend and the permit days that follow Jan. 31. Visit agfc.com for more information on all waterfowl hunting permits offered or to be directed to the application site (found under “Buy License-Check Game”). Each application is $5. Hunters may only apply for one WRICE field per week, but you are allowed a first and second choice of fields. WRICE permits are for the entire weekend, from 30 minutes before sunrise to sunset, and the winning hunter may bring three other hunters. Permits in Raft Creek Bottoms, Sheffield Nelson Dagmar WMA and Red Cut Slough, including the youth and mobilityimpaired blinds in Raft Creek, are for one day of the two-day weekend, opening up opportunity for hunters to try for either day.