After helping build Greers Ferry Lake and staying on as resident engineer for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Garner made an even more indelible mark with his yearly clean-up campaigns on the lake which gained national acclaim.

With her leadership, many significant areas have been protected by the Nature Conservancy, and the organization has helped public agencies with others. DeLamar lent her considerable support to the conservation sales tax campaign.

As longtime state Parks Director and as Director of Arkansas Parks and Tourism, Richard Davies joined Steve N. Wilson of the Game and Fish Commission in mapping the successful 1996 campaign to put the parks system on solid financial footing.

A Yellville school and college teacher, he used family banking connections to put a million dollars to use for conservation education. His gift of bank stock led to the Foundation’s purchase of a key 421-acre tract on Crooked Creek.

Passage of the 1/8th of one percent sales tax capped an illustrious 20-year career as director of the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission, one of the longest tenures in the nation. Solid achievements in wildlife and its use are also his legacies.

Following his innovative Arkansas River trip in 1996, a campaign for the conservation sales tax, he has taken the lead on programs like Hooked on Fishing – Not on Drugs, and the Youth and Senior’s Fishing Pond in urban Little Rock.

Her public service career was suddenly cut short, but not until after she had successfully handled the nuts and bolts of the conservation sales tax campaign, making Arkansas the second state to have solid funding for conservation efforts.

As the central figure in duck calling for years, Major transformed duck call manufacturing from home workshops to a significant business. His calls set a standard. The World Duck Calling Championships at Stuttgart have members of his family throughout its lists of winners.

Her intense and all-sides reporting covered controversial and heated issues of the outdoors in the 1970s and 1980s. Environmental issues at the Game and Fish Commission, the Department of Pollution Control and Ecology and the legislature were Griffee’s beat at the Arkansas Gazette.