Grisham has selected artists and artwork for the Arkansas duck stamp and print program since 1982. The program has raised millions of dollars to improve wetlands and purchase critical wildlife habitat and has become the most successful in the nation.

The Central Fishing Club at Springdale Central Junior High School was the forerunner of Hooked on Fishing, Not on Drugs (HOFNOD). Duncan came up with the idea in the early 1980s and HOFNOD became a nationwide program. Today’s growing HOFNOD program used Duncan’s Central Fishing Club as a model.

The person who launched the Arkansas Outdoor Hall of Fame has been pushed from behind the scenes into the limelight. Steve Smith of Little Rock, president of the Arkansas Game and Fish Foundation, has been added to three other 2003 inductees into the select group by the foundation’s board of directors. Smith has been with the foundation nearly 13 years and was named president in 1998.

Jones’ wildlife art is unique, with many paintings using ghosted superimposed images blended together to tell a story. A self-trained artist, she has blossomed into a leader among artists who specialize in wildlife subjects. In 2003-04, she was selected to provide the artwork for the 2003-04 Arkansas Waterfowl Hunting Stamp, the first Arkansan ever selected.

As a biologist, he was a key player in the development of a system of fish nursery ponds, in introducing trout into waters where cold water from dams had wiped out native fish, in introducing striped bass and in widespread stocking of channel catfish to boost angling opportunities. In the late 1960s, Hulsey was elevated to assistant director of the Arkansas Game & Fish Commission then became director in 1969. Hulsey served as Commission director for 10 years.

Not long after graduating from college, he realized he preferred travel in a bass boat to wearying days on the road doing insurance chores. Hoover became a key figure in Ranger Boats’ taking the top spot in the fishing boat world then took the helm of an organization pushing bass tournaments into headline-grabbing payouts rivaling those of professional golf and tennis.

As an attorney who served as Arkansas Game and Fish Foundation Chairman, he negotiated many key conservation agreements and was instrumental in the acquisition of the 421-acre Crooked Creek tract, opening Kelley’s slab and miles of Crooked Creek to public access.

After a retiring from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, he led the fund-raising activities of Ducks Unlimited in Arkansas and has been a prime mover in a number of partnership habitat purchases, including Ed Gordon/Point Remove and Raft Creek Wildlife Management Areas.

A catalyst for such landmark conservation education projects as the Potlatch Conservation Education Center at Cook’s Lake, she led the successful efforts to protect “The Lost 40,” a remnant of virgin forest, and developed “The Classroom in the Forest.”

Having written thousands of articles on Arkansas wildlife and Arkansans’ activities in the outdoors, he is a celebrated outdoor writer. He was the long-time outdoor editor of the Arkansas Gazette and news editor with the Game and Fish Commission.