The Bell Foley Dam Project was an unrealized construction effort in the 1970s to dam the Strawberry River and ...

Competition and contention over an abundant (and unregulated) storehouse of northeastern Arkansas wildlife fro...

Camp Halsey was a Soil Conservation Service camp established in 1934 a few miles to the east of Greenbrier in ...

Established in 1934, the Crossett Experimental Forest (CEF) of the United States Department of Agriculture (US...

Deforestation is the conversion of timbered lands into one or more non-forest uses. A classical example of def...

Experimental forests are timbered lands that have been established primarily for scientific research and demon...

Reclaiming the swamp and overflow lands in the Mississippi River Delta required draining those lands and build...

The Levi Wilcoxon Demonstration Forest (LWDF) is located about three miles south of Hamburg (Ashley County) al...

As American settlers pushed westward following the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, their goals of settlement, civi...

Around 10,000 to 12,000 years ago, the first human inhabitants of what was to become the state of Arkansas cou...

Arkansas has a diversity of rich soils that developed in a favorable environment for growing plants. The soils...

Arkansas inherited a complex legacy of land grants from its time as part of Spanish Louisiana. Beginning in 17...

In 1980, Congress passed, and President Jimmy Carter signed, the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compens...

The Swamp Land Act of 1850 gave Arkansas the right to identify and sell millions of acres of overflowed and sw...

“White flight”—the departure of white residents from racially mixed cities to heavily white suburban enc...