Governor Mike Huckabee Delta Rivers Nature Center
The Governor Mike Huckabee Delta Rivers Nature Center is an educational facility that allows visitors to learn about the Delta's heritage, wildlife and ecology in both an indoor setting as well as having easy access to the great outdoors. The center is located on 130 acres in Pine Bluff Regional Park between Lake Pine Bluff and Lake Langhofer. Here you will be able to take a simulated ride over the Delta in our Flyover Exhibit, see how the Arkansas River has changed course over the last 150 years and come to understand the history of the Delta a little better.
Wildlife can be seen in our 20,000 gallon aquarium in the form of native fish, turtles and birds. Visitors should also keep a sharp eye out for mounted specimens of local wildlife throughout the main building. While walking out on the trails you can watch for a large variety of birds, mammals, reptiles and insects as well as the many interesting and beautiful species of native plants. To sum it up, the nature center is a little bit museum, aquarium, zoo, laboratory, nature store, hiking trail, bird watching facility, wildlife photography location and environmental education facility all rolled up into one easy to use location.
The first of four free nature centers built by the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission with revenue from Amendment 75, a one-eighth of one percent statewide sales tax passed in 1996.
The Governor Mike Huckabee Delta Rivers Nature Center was designed as if it were a waterfowl hunting lodge set among Pine Bluff Regional Park's Delta bottomland, Lake Langhofer and Black Dog Bayou. The Delta and its rivers are the star attractions, and exhibits vividly describe how meandering waterways have changed this land and why swamps are incredibly valuable ecosystems. A model of the Arkansas River reveals how oxbow lakes form. A simulated crop duster flight buzzes fertile fields. A short film follows Hernando De Soto's early trek through forbidding land. Hides and bones are part of a hands-on laboratory. Those are just a few examples of what's inside.
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