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Foundation sets supper

The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission Foundation will hold its second annual "Into the Wild" wild game supper and auction at 5:30 p.m. Friday at the Springdale Airport, 718 S. Old Missouri Road.

Tickets are $125 or $1,000 for a table. Money raised helps fund the foundation's programs and initiatives for youth. For tickets visit agff.org.

The foundation was established in 1982 as a nonprofit fundraising auxiliary to the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission

Groups partner for lake cruises

Northwest Arkansas Audubon Society and Hobbs State Park-Conservation Area will host two-hour cruises this fall on the park's pontoon boat to see loons and other birds at Beaver Lake.

Trips are set for Sunday, and also Nov. 3 and Nov. 11. They depart from Rocky Branch Marina at 10 a.m. Experienced birders with Audubon will be on board to help identify birds.

Cost is $10. Register by calling the park visitor center, 479-789-5000.

Park program features snakes

Dr. Steve Beaupre with the University of Arkansas will give a talk on poisonous snakes of Arkansas at 2 p.m. on Nov. 4 at the Hobbs State Park-Conservation Area visitor center.

The program is free. For more information call the visitor center at 479-789-5000.

Fundraiser benefits Buffalo River

"Beer for the Buffalo" an Ozark Society benefit in support of the Buffalo National River will be from 6 to 8 p.m. on Nov. 8 at Fossil Cove Brewery, 1946 Birch Ave. in Fayetteville. Proceeds from the event will go the Ozark Society's legal fund to protect the river from hog farm pollution.

The evening will include a short program and prize drawings. Beer and pizza will be available for purchase.

Sports on 10/23/2018

The story was updated to remove an event with the Northwest Arkansas Audubon Society that had already taken place.

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