Nuttall in Oklahoma–A friend reading Nuttall’s journal said to me “I didn’t know he [Nuttall] spent so much time in Oklahoma!” Perhaps it is the title: “Travels into the Arkansa Territory” that throws people off. In 1819, most of what…
Nuttall on aquatic eastern OK in 1819–before the age of reservoirs: My presentation Thursday this week at the Oklahoma Clean Lakes & Watersheds meeting in Stillwater. 2nd field trip following Nuttall in Fort Smith and through the Poteau River valley…
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…
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…
