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…
On April 29, 1819, a few days after his arrival at Fort Smith, Nuttall “took an agreeable walk into the adjoining prairie, which is about two miles wide and seven long.” This was Massard Prairie, though not named as such…
Join us for Thomas Nuttall Excursion 2.0! Even if you attended last year, we will have new stops along the way!
Greetings Nuttall aficionados! Announcing Nuttall Excursions 2.0. On Saturday April 28 (2018) we will again trace Nuttall’s path from Fort Smith through the Poteau River Valley. We will add some new stops to last year’s tour and visit again some…
An interesting article on seeing, or not seeing, trees. I was pleased when Donna Deaton wrote that after our Nuttall trip, she was seeing plants along the road that she had not noticed before. Build on what we saw–learn some…
Congrats to John Lovett (Fort Smith Times Record reporter)- his Nuttall article has been picked up nationally by Sacramento Bee, Kansas City Star, and others. Getting the word out re Nuttall Bicentennial! #nuttallbicentennial
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…
After two months using Fort Smith as the base for his botanizing and exploring, Nuttall left the garrison on July 6. He continued traveling upstream on the Arkansas River with the Three Forks area his next goal. He arrived there…
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…
