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Letter From The Dean, Lalit Verma Jan 2009

Letter From The Dean, Lalit Verma

Discovery, The Student Journal of Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences

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Checklist Of Major Plant Species In Ashley County, Arkansas Noted By General Land Office Surveyors, Don C. Bragg Jan 2002

Checklist Of Major Plant Species In Ashley County, Arkansas Noted By General Land Office Surveyors, Don C. Bragg

Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science

The original General Land Office (GLO) survey notes for the Ashley County, Arkansas, area were examined to determine the plant taxa mentioned during the 1818 to 1855 surveys. While some challenges in identifying species were encountered, at least 39 families and approximately 100 species were identified with reasonable certainty. Most references were for trees used to witness corners or lines. Prominent arboreal genera recorded in these early survey records included Quercus, Pinus, Carya, Liquidambar, Nyssa, Ulmus, Acer, Fraxinus, and Taxodium. A number of shrubs, vines, graminoids, and herbaceous species were also reported, including notable genera like Vaccinium, Lindera, Crataegus, Myrica, …


Vegetation Of Saratoga Landing Blackland Prairie, Thomas L. Foti Jan 1990

Vegetation Of Saratoga Landing Blackland Prairie, Thomas L. Foti

Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science

Saratoga Landing Blackland Prairie is a 75-ha site owned by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and managed cooperatively with the Arkansas Natural Heritage Commission to protect its blackland prairie community and rare plant species. The site is a complex of prairies and forests, as interpreted from aerial photos and maps. It was substantially prairie at the time of settlement, and forest cover did not increase greatly until after 1951, apparently due to effective suppression of wildfires after that time. Plot sampling characterizes an individual prairie on the site as being dominated by a herbaceous canopy, but with a substantial …


Some Observations On Mismanagement Of Grasslands And Woodlands, Orrin J. Henbest Jan 1951

Some Observations On Mismanagement Of Grasslands And Woodlands, Orrin J. Henbest

Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science

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