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Harold Edward Alexander (1909–1993)
Harold Edward Alexander was a conservationist and stream preservationist who was a proponent of conservation a...
Arkansas Chapter of the Sierra Club
aka: Sierra Club
The Arkansas Chapter of the Sierra Club was established in 1982 as ...
Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment (ADEE)
Established in 2019 as part of the Transformation and Efficiencies Act of 2019 (Act 910), the new umbrella age...
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Arkansas Native Plant Society
The Arkansas Native Plant Society (ANPS) was established in 1980 to promote, first, the preservation, conserva...
Arkansas Natural Heritage Commission (ANHC)
The Arkansas Natural Heritage Commission (ANHC) works to conserve the state’s natural diversity and is charg...
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Arkansas System of Natural Areas
The Arkansas Natural Heritage Commission’s (ANHC) System of Natural Areas contains some of the best examples...
Arkansas Water Works and Water Environment Association
Comprising the operators of water and sewer systems statewide and their affiliates, the Arkansas Water Works a...
Young white teenage boy and older white man in hunting gear in swamp with ducks hanging from a tree
Arkansas Wildlife Federation
The mission of the Arkansas Wildlife Federation (AWF) is “to advocate for the sustainable use of Arkansas’...
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Audubon Arkansas
Audubon Arkansas was established in 2000 as the twenty-fifth state office of the National Audubon Society thro...
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Back-to-the-Land Movement
During the late 1960s and early 1970s, nearly one million people throughout the United States left urbanized a...
Bald Knob National Wildlife Refuge
The Bald Knob National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) consists of 14,800 acres of forest wetlands and croplands lying a...
Flooded swamp with trees with sunshine and shadows
Bell Slough Wildlife Management Area
When Lake Conway was completed in 1951 in the Palarm Creek bottoms of southern Faulkner County, land for the d...
"Big lake district hunters' paradise" newspaper clipping
Big Lake National Wildlife Refuge
Big Lake National Wildlife Refuge is one of the oldest inland national wildlife refuges. This 11,038-acre area...
Bioregionalism
aka: Ozark Area Community Congress
Bioregionalism is both a deep ecological philosophy and an apolitic...
Black Fork Mountain Wilderness
The Black Fork Mountain Wilderness is located in the Ouachita National Forest in western Arkansas and eastern ...
Interior cave stalagmites on natural shelves above mineral deposit piles covered in icicle like drips
Blanchard Springs Caverns
Blanchard Springs Caverns (BSC) is a magnificent limestone cave system starting more than 200 feet underground...
Multistory building with extensive damage
Brinkley Tornado of 1909
aka: Brinkley Cyclone
aka: Tornado Outbreak of March 8, 1909
Thirty-five people were killed and most of the town of Brinkley (Mo...
White man in kayak holding paddle across chest with river rapids, mountain ridge
Buffalo National River
aka: Buffalo River
The Buffalo National River, which runs through Newton, Searcy, Mari...
C&H Hog Farms
In early 2013, brothers Richard and Phillip Campbell and their cousin Jason Henson opened C&H Hog Farms in...
Bare trees in flooded wetlands with green algae floating on the water
Cache River National Wildlife Refuge
The 62,000-acre Cache River National Wildlife Refuge is the most important wintering area for ducks and the la...
Caney Creek Wilderness
The Caney Creek Wilderness is a protected recreational area created in 1975 in the Ouachita National Forest. O...
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Climate Change
aka: Global Warming
The spring of 2019 brought record flooding along the Arkansas River...
Old white man in hat holding a paddle posing with canoe and trees in the background
Neil Ernest Compton (1912–1999)
Neil Ernest Compton of Bentonville (Benton County) was a physician of obstetrics by profession and a conservat...
Single-story building with green roof and parking lot
Dale Bumpers White River National Wildlife Refuge
aka: White River National Wildlife Refuge
The Dale Bumpers White River National Wildlife Refuge, located in ...
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Endangered, Threatened, and Rare Species
Arkansas has many plant and animal species, partly because of varied topography and a temperate climate. An ab...
Farmer and boy using a horse drawn plow in a field with hills in the background
Environment
Arkansas’s physical environment features a mild climate, adequate rainfall, a rural and relatively uncrowded...
Listed concerns include more fire hydrants new park equipment a recreation center and right to know bill
Environmental Racism
The term “environmental racism” originated with the environmental justice movement that began developing i...
Aerial view of lake with locks and dam
Felsenthal National Wildlife Refuge
Felsenthal National Wildlife Refuge encompasses approximately 65,000 acres at the confluence of the Ouachita a...
Industrial buildings with large chimney
Flint Creek Power Plant
The Flint Creek Power Plant, located near Gentry (Benton County) and operated by Southwestern Electric Power C...
Two story wooden houseboat moored at riverbank
Floating CCC Camp at Jacks Bay
The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) side camp BF-2 at Jacks Bay in Arkansas County was distinct from most ot...
Aerial view of flooded town with trees in the distance
Flood of 1927
aka: Great Flood of 1927
aka: Mississippi River Flood of 1927
aka: 1927 Flood
The Flood of 1927 was the most destructive and costly flood in Arka...
Black man drives two mules and wagon through flooded city street, brick buildings, large sign for "Bull Durham Smoking Tobacco"
Flood of 1937
A cold, rainy January in 1937 set the stage for one of the worst floods—if not the worst—in Arkansas. Corr...