The Arkansas Game and Fish Foundation is the fund-raising auxiliary of the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission.  The foundation was created in 1982 through the efforts of former AGFC director Steve N. Wilson.

Steve Smith has been with the foundation over 13 years and was named President in 1998.  Smith and the foundation played key roles in the successful 1996 campaign to pass a conservation sales tax to provide permanent and solid funding for the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission, Arkansas State Parks, Arkansas Heritage Commission and Keep Arkansas Beautiful.  About three-fourths of the funds raised for the campaign were by the Arkansas Game and Fish Foundation.

Smith has guided foundation projects in other areas as well. The purchase of the Robinwood tract on the White River as an addition to Wattensaw Wildlife Management Area, he played a leading role in the acquisition and development of the Potlatch Conservation Education Center at Cook's Lake, the purchase of a 421-acre tract on Crooked Creek being developed as the Fred Berry Conservation Education Center and the planned development of a conservation education center on a 211-acre donated tract in Southwest Little Rock at Otter Creek.

To learn more about the education centers and the efforts of the Arkansas Game and Fish Foundation, click here.