Really nice informative article on Thomas Nuttall and our tour by John Lovett on front page of today’s Fort Smith (AR) Times Record. And helping promote future tours as well! Thanks, John! Read the article here. One personal correction: I…
Last Sunday Barry Bruton and I went exploring in the Three Forks area. In 1819 this was a happening place, with four trading posts in operation. We weren’t sure what we would find or how close to the the river…
Susan Dragoo wrote an article in the March 2015 issue of Oklahoma Today magazine describing her own retracing of Nuttall’s travels upstream from Fort Smith and into northeastern Oklahoma. She was accompanied by Debby Kaspari who’s paintings and sketches accompany…
Passion flower, Passiflora incarnata
From Donna Deaton (via Facebook): I have never noticed so many bee balm plants as I’m seeing now. I can’t drive past the meadows on Old 112 without point them out to whoever is with me. I also have to…
Jay Randolph, Ben Geren Golf Course, last Saturday, showing off a field of blazing star to Glenda James. We were just a little bit early to see the blazing star in bloom. Jay is doing outstanding work restoring prairie at…
Plant of the Day–fragrant white waterlily (Nymphaea odorata), at Kerr Ranch Wildlife Refuge Comments (viaFacebook): Donna Deaton I am so much more aware of the plants around me since Saturday. I saw lots of pale purple cone flowers, some obedient…
Nuttall’s journal contains relatively little about aquatic and wetland vegetation compared to terrestrial. He does describe a couple of oxbow lakes in eastern Oklahoma however. The first is near the Kiamichi River, seen by him during his side trip to…
I spent the afternoon with Jay Randolph exploring Massard Prairie in Fort Smith, AR. Jay is restoring and enhancing some 100 acres of Ben Geren golf course prairie remnants. We also looked at other prairie remnants in the area, at…
Nuttall’s journal, May 17, 1819: “The day was delightfully clear and warm…We were again in full view of the two picturesque mountains, the Cavaniol and Point Sucre…Our route was continued through prairies…” “These vast plains, beautiful almost as the fancied…
