This state's classification carries no date range for the species.
Arkansas has no wild, self-sustaining huntable pheasant population.The 2026-27 AGFC Hunting Guidebook (verified via full-text search of the entire document) contains zero pheasant season-date entries, statewide or WMA-level — the word 'pheasant' appears exactly once, in a clause allowing licensed individuals/organizations to hold pen-raised pheasant (with quail/chukar) for dog training or sanctioned field trials. Pheasant hunting in Arkansas, where it occurs, is limited to privately licensed game-bird shooting preserves using pen-raised stock under a separate captive-wildlife/shooting-resort permit that sets its own operating window, not an AGFC statewide season. A secondary aggregator (Farmers Co-op) claimed a statewide 'Dec. 1, 2026-Jan. 31, 2027' season with a 2-bird bag limit; this could not be corroborated by any AGFC primary source and is NOT used as seasonDates/seasons here — flagging for human review in case that aggregator is referencing a real but undocumented AGFC WMA release-site program. Confirmed via full-text search of the entire 2026-27 AGFC Hunting Guidebook (see raw source) — not an unresearched gap.
Pheasant exists in Arkansas solely under AGFC's Captive Wildlife / Game Bird Shooting Resort Permit framework, the same as chukar — confirmed absence of any wild, AGFC-managed population or survey infrastructure.