Bokoshe, OK prairie- native hay meadow- looking south to Cavanal Hill (Photo by Amy Buthod, OU). On April 23, 1819, Nuttall was working his way west (upstream) on the Arkansas River. As he neared Fort Smith, he wrote: “[T]he prairies…
Nuttall’s descriptions of the Arkansas Territory in 1819–of what will become eastern Oklahoma and western Arkansas–are of a time when this part of the world was on the cusp of significant change. Settlement and changing land use will transform the…
Rose verbena is commonly and reliably one of our early-blooming spring wildflowers. I found these last weekend, and expect we’ll see many more patches flowering in the coming days and weeks. After Nuttall arrived in Fort Smith on April 24,…
The Poteau Daily News did a nice write up on the Nuttall bicentennial and our upcoming Fort Smith through the Poteau River Valley field trip in their April 4, 2019. Read the article here.
Today’s exercise in ecological imagination: the skies of eastern Oklahoma and western Arkansas are alive with the sound of the tropics as flocks of bright blue parrots move from forest to farm field to town, munching on seeds of red…
Guillaume Delisle was a French cartographer (1675-1726) who became known for popular and reasonably accurate maps of the newly explored Americas. While he did not explore the Americas in person, he was one of the first cartographers to take a…
One month until the 200th anniversary of Nuttall’s arrival in the Poteau River Valley (April 24, 1819). One month until our 3rd annual exploration retracing his steps from the mouth of the Poteau River at the Arkansas (Belle Point, the…
The “azure larkspur, “Delphinium carolinianum, coming soon.
