Land & Resources

A. M. Bohnert Rice Plantation Pump No. 2 Engine
Located on the southeast corner of the junction of U.S. Highway 165 and Post Bayou Lane near Gillett (Arkansas...
Abernathy Spring
Abernathy Spring is a mineral spring located in Polk County, 2.8 km (1.75 mi.) east of the unincorporated comm...
Agricultural Adjustment Act
The experimental Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) was the cornerstone farm legislation of President Franklin ...
Agricultural Wheel
The Agricultural Wheel was a state farmers’ union, founded in the Arkansas Delta, which expanded into ten ot...
Agriculture
Agriculture has played a major role in Arkansas’s culture from territorial times, when farmers made up more ...
Harold Edward Alexander (1909–1993)
Harold Edward Alexander was a conservationist and stream preservationist who was a proponent of conservation a...
American Viticultural Areas
aka: Viticultural Areas
American Viticultural Areas (AVAs) were established in 1979 and are...
American Wine Society - Arkansas Chapter
The American Wine Society–Arkansas Chapter was a non-profit organization dedicated to the dissemination of k...
Anthony Timberlands, Inc.
Formed by John Ed Anthony in 1974, Anthony Timberlands, Inc. (ATI) operates five mills in southern Arkansas an...
Antimony Mining
Antimony (Sb) is a hard, brittle, silver-white metal with a relatively high specific gravity (6.69) and a rela...
Antoine River
The Antoine River rises from a confluence of streams in the Ouachita Mountains of Pike County, just west of Am...
Apple Industry
Seventy-five years after their introduction in Arkansas, apples became a dominant agricultural crop and an eco...
Aquaculture
Aquaculture—the farming of aquatic plants and animals—includes private sector, commercial fish farms, stat...
Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station (AAES)
The Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station (AAES) is the statewide research component of the University of A...
Arkansas Black Apple
The Arkansas Black Apple is recognized by early sources as having been first produced in 1870 in the orchard o...
Arkansas Chapter of the Sierra Club
aka: Sierra Club
The Arkansas Chapter of the Sierra Club was established in 1982 as ...
Arkansas Department of Agriculture (ADA)
The Arkansas Department of Agriculture (ADA) is an amalgam of various agriculture-related state agencies estab...
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 Farm Bureau Federation
The Arkansas Farm Bureau Federation (AFB) is a private agricultural advocacy group composed of more than 230,0...
Arkansas Farm Family of the Year Program
The Arkansas Farm Family of the Year program was started in 1947 to recognize the importance of the farm famil...
Arkansas Farmers Union
aka: Arkansas Farmers Educational Cooperative Union
The Arkansas iteration of the Farmers Union—founded as the Farmer...
Arkansas Forestry Association
The Arkansas Forestry Association (AFA) is a private association of firms and individuals in the forestry indu...
Arkansas Forestry Commission
The Arkansas Forestry Commission (AFC) was established by Act 234 of 1931 and amended by Act 48 of 1939. Its i...
Arkansas Game and Fish Commission State Fish Hatcheries
The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission State Fish Hatcheries were built between 1928 and 1940 for spawning and ...
Arkansas Historic Wine Museum
The Arkansas Historic Wine Museum in Paris (Logan County) was the only museum in the United States dedicated t...
Arkansas Livestock Show Association
The Arkansas Livestock Show Association (ASLA) is the umbrella organization that owns much of the Arkansas Sta...
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 River
The Arkansas River originates high in the Sawatch Range of the Rocky Mountains near Leadville, Colorado, and i...
Arkansas Soybean Promotion Board
Arkansas ranks in the top ten of U.S. states for soybean production. Products made from soybeans can be found ...
Arkansas State Boundaries
Arkansas’s boundaries have been the subject of international treaties, treaties with Native American tribes,...
Arkansas State Horticultural Society (ASHS)
The Arkansas State Horticultural Society (ASHS) is a horticultural crop producers’ organization whose primar...