Environment

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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...
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...
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...
Arkansas Wildlife Federation
The mission of the Arkansas Wildlife Federation (AWF) is “to advocate for the sustainable use of Arkansas’...
Audubon Arkansas
Audubon Arkansas was established in 2000 as the twenty-fifth state office of the National Audubon Society thro...
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...
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 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 ...
Blanchard Springs Caverns
Blanchard Springs Caverns (BSC) is a magnificent limestone cave system starting more than 200 feet underground...
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...
Buffalo National River
aka: Buffalo River
The Buffalo National River, which runs through Newton, Searcy, Mari...
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...
Climate Change
aka: Global Warming
The spring of 2019 brought record flooding along the Arkansas River...
Neil Ernest Compton (1912–1999)
Neil Ernest Compton of Bentonville (Benton County) was a physician of obstetrics by profession and a conservat...
Dale Bumpers White River National Wildlife Refuge
aka: White River National Wildlife Refuge
The Dale Bumpers White River National Wildlife Refuge, located in ...
Endangered, Threatened, and Rare Species
Arkansas has many plant and animal species, partly because of varied topography and a temperate climate. An ab...
Environment
Arkansas’s physical environment features a mild climate, adequate rainfall, a rural and relatively uncrowded...
Environmental Racism
The term “environmental racism” originated with the environmental justice movement that began developing i...
Felsenthal National Wildlife Refuge
Felsenthal National Wildlife Refuge encompasses approximately 65,000 acres at the confluence of the Ouachita a...
Flint Creek Power Plant
The Flint Creek Power Plant, located near Gentry (Benton County) and operated by Southwestern Electric Power C...
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...
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...
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...
Flood of 1978
On September 13, 1978, a large rainstorm subjected much of central Arkansas to record-setting amounts of rainf...
Flood of 2019
The flood along the Arkansas River that occurred in the spring of 2019 broke a number of high-water records an...