20 Arkansans Win Elk-Hunting Permits
Thousands Apply To Hunt In Buffalo River Country
Twenty Arkansans have won permits to hunt elk next fall in the Buffalo River country of Northwest Arkansas.

The hunt will be Sept. 20-24 and Dec. 6-10, and the permits are free.

Winners were drawn Saturday during the annual Buffalo River Elk Festival at Jasper. Several thousand hunters applied for the permits.

The Elk Foundation has participated for years in elk habitat work in Arkansas as a partner of the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission and the Buffalo National River of the U.S. Park Service. The foundation returns 85 percent of the money raised in the permit auctions to Arkansas for elk program work.

The 2004 elk permit winners include:

-Walton Short of Magnolia, September, Bull, Zone 3.

-John Conner III of Little Rock, September, Bull, Zone 4.

-Kevin Lawrence of Brockwell, September, Bull, Zone 1.

-Ronald Coleman of Fayetteville, December, Bull, Zone 1.

-Brandon Craine of Jonesboro, December, Antlerless, Zone 1.

-David Weathers of Brookland, December, Antlerless Zone 1.

-William Conner of White Hall, December, Antlerless, Zone 1.

-Lonnie Young of Batesville, September, Bull, Zone 2.

-Larry Hefley of Lonsdale, December, Bull, Zone 2.

-Jerry Price of Elkins, December, Antlerless, Zone 2.

-Josiah Goodman of Green Forest, December, Antlerless, Zone 2.

-Jake Harvey of Jonesboro, December, Antlerless, Zone 2.

-Joshua Armstrong of Cave City, December, Either Sex, Zone 3.

-Randy Smith of Greenbrier, December, Antlerless, Zone 3.

-Michael Belt of Sheridan, December, Antlerless, Zone 3.

-Michael Couture of Pine Bluff, December, Antlerless, Zone 3.

-Richard Alexander of Fort Smith, December, Bull, Zone 4.

-Bobby Nixon of Clinton, December, Antlerless, Zone 4.

-Glen Shuffield of Bismarck, December, Antlerless, Zone 4.

-William Camplain of Austin, December, Antlerless, Zone 4.