Constitution of Arkansas (2025 publisher edition) — Amendment 88: [WILDLIFE CONSERVATION AND MANAGEMENT] .

Publisher edition notice: This collection preserves the complete constitutional appendix of the Secretary of State’s 2025 Election Laws and Constitution compilation: its preamble, twenty original articles, schedule and 104 published amendments, including annotations and explicit repealed notices. Repealed notices remain historical publisher context. Later amendments have not been independently verified.

Amendment 88

AMEND. 88. [WILDLIFE CONSERVATION AND MANAGEMENT] .
Publisher’s Notes. This amendment, effective Decem-
ber 2, 2010, was proposed by S.J.R. 3 during the 2009
Regular Session and adopted at the 2010 general election
by a vote of 612,495 for and 127,444 against.
The bracketed heading was added by the Publisher.
§ 1. [Right to Hunt, Fish, Trap, and Harvest Wildlife]
(a)(1) Citizens of the State of Arkansas have a right to hunt, fish, trap, and harvest wildlife.
(2) The right to hunt, fish, trap, and harvest wildlife shall be subject only to regulations that
promote sound wildlife conservation and management and are consistent with Amendment 35 of
the Arkansas Constitution.
(b) Public hunting, fishing, and trapping shall be a preferred means of managing and
controlling nonthreatened species and citizens may use traditional methods for harvesting
wildlife.
(c) Nothing in this amendment shall be construed to alter, repeal, or modify:
(1) Any provision of Amendment 35 to the Arkansas Constitution;
(2) Any common law or statute relating to trespass, private property rights, eminent domain,
public ownership of property, or any law concerning firearms unrelated to hunting; or
(3) The sovereign immunity of the State of Arkansas.
Publisher’s Notes. The bracketed heading was added
by the Publisher.