November 12, 2011

In 1993, the Arkansas General Assembly passed House Bill 2110 designating the white-tailed deer as the official state mammal. Governor Jim Guy Tucker subsequently signed the bill into law, making Arkansas one of eleven states that claim the white-tailed deer as an official symbol.

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