AGFC drops gravel from the sky onto Lake Conway [Video]

MAYFLOWER, Ark. — Throughout the week, the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission (AGFC) has dropped over 600,000 pounds of gravel onto the currently drained Lake Conway.

“What we’re doing today is using a helicopter to place a heavy, large volume of gravel in some of our more remote, harder-to-get-to parts of the shoreline of the lake,” explained Nicholas Feltz, the District Fisheries Supervisor for the AGFC.

Feltz also added that his team has been hard at work to complete the project. They only stopped briefly on Wednesday when conditions were a bit too foggy for the helicopter pilot to see the ground below.

Other than that, it’s been full speed ahead with this project to try and drop as much of the gravel as possible.

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