Rescheduled Nuttall field tour is coming up this coming Saturday–June 3. Our planned major stops include:1. Old Fort Smith & the confluence of the Poteau with the Arkansas2. Massard Prairie & native prairie restoration at Ben Geren3. Poteau River riparian…
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…
On May 16, 1819, after about three weeks based at the garrison at Fort Smith, Nuttall traveled south and west with Major Smith and soldiers to the Red River. The first night they camped near Gap Creek at the foot…
We have rescheduled the Nuttall excursion. It will be on Saturday June 3. All the other particulars remain the same–9a to 5p, meet at Kiamichi Technology Center in Poteau.
I am sorry to let you all know that we are going to reschedule the Nuttall expedition we had planned for tomorrow. The weather prediction is a 90% chance of 5 inches or more of rain, basically all day. We…
Jacqueline Froelich at KUAF (NPR Fayetteville) interviewed me earlier this week about Thomas Nuttall and our planned field trip on Saturday. You can check it out here.
While the prairies of the Arkansas and the Poteau river valleys will be a major focus of our Nuttall trek, we’ll also give some love and attention to the river and its vegetation, and to natural lakes (oxbows) and wetlands.…
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…
The original Fort Smith, established at Belle Point, at the confluence of the Poteau River with the Arkansas River, was less than two years old when Nuttall arrived there on April 24, 1819. We will begin our field trip at…
