Ozwash Nature is: exploring, learning, imagining, restoring, conserving, enjoying. This land. These waters. Ozwash–a mashup of Ozarks + Ouachitas–is the region known to geographers and geologists as the Interior Highlands. Pronounce it Oz (like in the Wizard of…) & wash…
Amazing mushroom for your viewing pleasure! My sister sent me this photo of a very cool mushroom from the stinkhorn group. She saw it in Texas (near Corsicana) earlier this week. Interestingly, another person posted an observation from north of…
Something a little different today, wandering over from Ozwash ecologies into ecosystem design. The connection, though, is central to both, ecological education. Did you know that Lincoln Logs were invented by Frank Lloyd Wright’s son, John? That’s just one small…
Moving upriver on the Arkansas River from Fort Smith on July 8, 1819, Thomas Nuttall noted: “On Sambo Island [=San Bois Island, near the mouth of Little San Bois Creek – San Bois means without trees]…we stopped to dine; and…
Very interesting photos of floating log ecosystems at a small lake in Michigan.From @sponge_research, via Twitter: “Found these really neat free floating log ecosystems in one of the lakes we sample. Pitcher plants, sundews and other stuff. Lake was filled…
Watershield (Brasenia schreberi) in bloom. I don’t believe I have ever seen watershield flowering. Have you? I really appreciate this photo from Wade Simmons, via Twitter. Watershield occurs in Oklahoma and Arkansas and surrounding region. Nuttall mentions it in a…
On this date (July 6) in 1819, the botanist Thomas Nuttall left the garrison constructed two years earlier at the confluence of the Poteau River with the Arkansas (Fort Smith) and proceeded upstream toward the Three Forks area (confluences of…
On July 2, 1819 Nuttall “remained at the garrison [Fort Smith],” recuperating from his trip back north from the Red River. In a few days (July 6), he will resume his trip up the Arkansas river, with the Three Forks…
I have been thinking about Flanagan Prairie, a special place. A few days ago I shared a video from the Arkansas Natural Heritage Commission that was shot on Flanagan Prairie–arogos butterflies on a pale purple coneflower. Flanagan Prairie is one…
