Drone deer recovery in Fayetteville & Springdale, AR

Where the Ozarks start to stand up

South of Fayetteville the country changes. Flat pasture gives way to the Boston Mountain foothills, and a deer hit on a ridge above West Fork or Winslow can be 200 feet below you in a laurel-choked hollow you cannot see into from anywhere on foot. Thermal from overhead flattens that problem — elevation stops mattering when you are looking straight down.

North and west, the Illinois River and Clear Creek bottoms are the opposite challenge: thick, wet, tangled cover where blood disappears in wet leaves within an hour. Both are routine flights for us, and both are searches where the difference between calling at 7 p.m. and calling at midnight is often the difference between a recovery and a coyote-fed carcass.

Washington County also brings us a steady load of pet searches — dogs lost off greenway trails, out of subdivisions and away from farms on the edge of town. Those we fly year round, not just in November.

Towns and communities covered

Blood trail gone cold in Washington County?

Call or text and we will tell you straight whether a flight makes sense tonight.