Registration is now open on the Kiamichi Technology Center website for our two day trip retracing Thomas Nuttall’s path from Fort Smith to the Red River in May 1819. Go to: , select Poteau Campus, and then Personal Enrichment to…
Nuttall’s descriptions of the Arkansas Territory in 1819–of what will become eastern Oklahoma and western Arkansas–are of a time when this part of the world was on the cusp of significant change. Settlement and changing land use will transform the…
Rose verbena is commonly and reliably one of our early-blooming spring wildflowers. I found these last weekend, and expect we’ll see many more patches flowering in the coming days and weeks. After Nuttall arrived in Fort Smith on April 24,…
The Poteau Daily News did a nice write up on the Nuttall bicentennial and our upcoming Fort Smith through the Poteau River Valley field trip in their April 4, 2019. Read the article here.
Today’s exercise in ecological imagination: the skies of eastern Oklahoma and western Arkansas are alive with the sound of the tropics as flocks of bright blue parrots move from forest to farm field to town, munching on seeds of red…
Guillaume Delisle was a French cartographer (1675-1726) who became known for popular and reasonably accurate maps of the newly explored Americas. While he did not explore the Americas in person, he was one of the first cartographers to take a…
The “azure larkspur, “Delphinium carolinianum, coming soon.
At this point 200 years ago–in mid-February 1819–Nuttall was still at Arkansas Post, seeking a boat to take him upstream, up the Arkansas River (:100). In about a week he’ll depart, and, a little over two months later, on April…
David Holcomb, via Facebook: Really great FB site and glad to find it. I live in Little Rock but we have a small family farm (62 acres) outside of Mansfield, AR, about 14 miles from the OK border. We are…
The poet Gary Snyder tells about a visit he made to Australia: “We were traveling by truck over dirt track west from Alice Springs in the company of a Pintubi elder named Jimmy Tjungurrayi. As we rolled along the dusty…
