From Barry Bruton, via Facebook: Steve, here’s a question that I always wondered about: The San Bois mountains (in eastern OK), which means literally ‘without trees’, are described by Nuttall and others as being virtually treeless. These ranges are now…
This is the maple-leaf oak, a rare tree known definitively from only a few locations including the Arkansas side of Sugarloaf Mountain. The common name is descriptive–it is an oak with a leaf resembling a maple. The photos are from…
Ascending the Arkansas River from Arkansas Post on the Mississippi, Thomas Nuttall arrived in the vicinity of present-day Little Rock, Arkansas on March 20, 1819. “The fascade or cliffs, in which it terminates on the bank of the river, is…
The original Fort Smith, established at Belle Point, at the confluence of the Poteau River with the Arkansas River, was less than two years old when Nuttall arrived there on April 24, 1819. We will begin our field trip at…
TRACING THE STEPS OF THOMAS NUTTALL THROUGH THE POTEAU RIVER VALLEY–a one-day personal enrichment class offered by Kiamichi Technology Center, Poteau OK. Thomas Nuttall arrived at Fort Smith, located at the confluence of the Poteau River with the Arkansas River,…
We are only two years away from the 200th anniversary of the trip the English botanist and naturalist Thomas Nuttall took up the Arkansas River in 1819, the first scientifically trained observer to visit these areas. Nuttall kept a journal…
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…
