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Flock to your nearest Arkansas revenue office and add a splash of color to your daily commute.
The latest edition of the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission’s conservation license plate features a stunning image of a painted bunting, one of the most beautiful birds to call Arkansas home and a favorite of wildlife watchers throughout the South.
Splashed with spring greens and bright tones, this year’s artwork is the 10th to be designed by Greta James, award-winning art director for Game and Fish. The picture showcases the bright colors of the painted bunting, a striking summer resident, among a summer tallgrass prairie. Unlike ducks and other species that spend their summers far north of Arkansas and visit only during the coldest months of the year, painted buntings spend most of their breeding and nesting season right here in Arkansas. They head to the Gulf Coast and Caribbean to wait out the chills of winter.
Each plate raises $25 (total cost is $35 above the standard registration fee) for conservation efforts. Since its creation in 2000, the conservation license plate program has raised more than $21 million for conservation scholarships and internships for Arkansas students, materials and exhibits for Game and Fish nature centers, plus land acquisitions to improve hunting and fishing access in Arkansas.
The plates are available online at dfa.arkansas.gov (click on
