Interesting article: These Teams Are Responsible for 800 Fish Habitat Restoration Projects Across the U.S. There has been a collaborative effort at work behind the scenes for years to expand and guarantee your access to great fishing. The National Fish…
The Ozark Chinkapin (Castanea ozarkensis) (taxonomy is in some dispute as to whether the typical Ozark form should be considered a species, or a variety–I tend to favor considering it a species) is a cousin of the American chestnut. Like…
Nuttall’s wild indigo (Baptisia nuttalliana). Gorgeous. Very different from our more common baptisia, denser stems, smaller leaves. At the Kerr Ranch. Thank you David Redhage for cluing me in that they were blooming.
Very nice landscape and flower photography. Prairie flowers with Cavanal in the background. (The windmills are not local. 🙂 ) John Sullivan Photography
Fishing Through The Apocalypse: An Angler’s Adventures in the 21st Century. By Matthew L Miller Barry Bruton–friend, early Oklahoma history aficionado, & alumnus of many Nuttall exploring trips, recommends this new book. I thought it may be of interest to…
May 22, 1819. Nuttall is in the Red River valley. “The change of soil in the great Prairie of Red river now appeared obvious. It was here that I saw the first calcareous rock charged with shells, &c. since my…
Nuttall’s Death Camas (Toxicoscordion nuttallii) – formerly and more commonly known as Zigadenus nuttallii. I saw several stands of these last Sunday as I traveled the route of our upcoming May 18 trip through the Kiamichi valley to the Red…
The last two weekends it has been my pleasure and privilege to welcome interested folks from other parts of the state to Lake Wister and share with them information about the lake and the ecological history of the Poteau River…
Bokoshe, OK prairie- native hay meadow- looking south to Cavanal Hill (Photo by Amy Buthod, OU). On April 23, 1819, Nuttall was working his way west (upstream) on the Arkansas River. As he neared Fort Smith, he wrote: “[T]he prairies…
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…
