What could this article on the role of elephants in dispersing seeds and generating savanna ecologies have to do with a common local tree that Nuttall describes and we will see? Link Reply from Jacob Dyer: Osage-orange! The fact it…
Lovely and very cool prairie restoration art. Check it out at
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…
Just as we approach the bicentennial of Nuttall’s Arkansa journey and are re-exploring his path, so too did others retrace his trail, at the centennial–100 years after. So it was that a little more than 100 years after Nuttall’s visit,…
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…
