Stories in Arkansas

Reviving Shortleaf Pine Forests

Conservation efforts have successfully restored more than 1.5 million acres of shortleaf pine forests, enhancing biodiversity and ecosystem health.

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Arkansas Nature Highlights

Get caught up on the latest conservation updates in Arkansas. Together, with your support, we are creating a conservation legacy that will benefit future generations.

Nov 25, 2024

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Going Underground: Protecting the Interior Highlands

The Nature Conservancy is crossing borders—Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma and Kansas to be specific—to protect our caves and increase water quality.

Oct 02, 2024

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From Marginal to Thriving

How an Arkansas landowner revitalized his property by planting 36,000 strategically selected varieties of oak and other hardwood seedlings on his marginal farmland.

Aug 22, 2024

Farmer Roger Smith takes a break from harvesting soybeans

Growing Access to Sustainable Agriculture in Arkansa

By offering workshops and increasing access to irrigation timers and other tools, partners are reducing water usage on Arkansas farms.

Jan 16, 2024

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Conserving Critical Lands and Waters Around the World

Blue Mountain

With your help, this westernmost peak of the Maumelle Pinnacles will provide another amazing place for Arkansans to explore nature.

Apr 07, 2021

Map showing flooding around the Mississippi River near Cairo, Illinois.

Mississippi River Flooding Maps

Explore maps that illustrate the Mississippi River’s reach, our efforts to control it, and the impacts from its flooding on the people who live in its floodplain.

Mar 26, 2021

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What You Need to Know about Periodical Cicadas

What you need to know about this noisy, natural wonder.

By Deborah Landau

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A young boy's back is visible as he uses a snorkel to dip his head into murky water. Sunlight is creating sparkly spots in the water and on his back.

How The Water Shapes Us

A collection of photography from around the Mississippi River Basin that depicts what life is like in disparate parts of this important and vast river system.

By Rolaine Ossman | Feb 26, 2021

The Buffalo National River flows past rock bluffs.

Bringing Benefits to Farmers and Water Quality in Arkansas

Farm Bill funding helps Arkansas farmers adopt key conservation practices.

Dec 04, 2020

Growers like rice farmer Kotton Guest have found that using new irrigation timers (pictured) save them time in the fields, money--and precious water resources.

Timing Is Everything for Arkansas Farms

TNC and Kellogg are collaborating to help Arkansas farmers irrigate their fields more efficiently, saving billions of gallons of precious water.

Nov 16, 2020

A herd of bison walk across a grassy, hilly landscape toward the camera.

Resilient and Connected Plains

By protecting our most well-connected and resilient land and water networks in the Great Plains, we can save some of our most important wildlife.

Oct 29, 2020

Talking About Conservation and Racial Justice

Dr. Mamie Parker, a TNC Virginia trustee and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service veteran, talks about conservation, environmental justice and racial equity.

Jet Trail at sunset in Badlands National Park

Anything But Plain

Some call this flyover country... We politely disagree. Get to know some of the amazing places that you've been missing in the Great Plains!

Jul 27, 2020

Impacts of the Dead Zone

The dead zone is an area where nutrient pollution flowing into the Gulf causes algae blooms that deplete oxygen from the water and make it difficult for marine life to survive.

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Inspiring People for Nature

TNC preserves in Arkansas provide access for outdoor recreation and showcase our conservation practices.

Nov 18, 2019

workers in the Arkansas Unpaved Roads Program

Protecting Water

Find out how we're conserving Ozark and Ouachita Rivers by restoring streams, reforesting floodplains and improving unpaved roads to reduce sediment.

Nov 18, 2019

Restoring the Delta

We're reforesting floodprone and less productive cropland in the Delta and reconnecting rivers to wetlands.

Nov 01, 2019

Living with Fire

Improving habitat for wildlife and reducing wildfire risks through fire and habitat restoration.

Oct 10, 2019

The Buffalo River

The Buffalo River is one of Arkansas’, and America’s, greatest national treasures.

Sep 23, 2019

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Amelia Outdoors

Photographer Terra Fondriest captures her daughter's encounters with nature in rural Arkansas.

Feb 28, 2019

Bird Migration Through Arkansas

Arkansas hosts many migratory birds because of geography and habitat.

Lower Cache River

Restoring the iconic lower Cache River.

Sep 08, 2018

A woman in yellow fire gear smiles while she works outdoors.

Fire Restoration In Arkansas

Controlled burns, also known as prescribed fires, are helping to reverse decades of fire suppression policies that have disrupted the natural balance of these ecosystems.

Restoring the Kings River

The Nature Conservancy in Arkansas is working to restore the Oxbow stretch of the King's River.

Minimizing Sediment At The Upper Little Red River

At the Middle Fork of the Little Red River in Van Buren County, the Conservancy stabilized 375 feet of stream bank that had eroded as much as 16 feet in the past year, dumping some 850 tons of sediment into the river.

Archey Fork Restoration Benefits People And Wildlife

The Little Red River's Archey Fork is a natural spot for young and old to fish, splash, explore, or just relax by the water.

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Endangered Species Of Arkansas

The Nature Conservancy and agencies like the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and the Arkansas Natural Heritage and Game and Fish commissions focus on protecting plants and animals of all kinds, from storybook creatures like bears and eagles to obscure bugs and plants that most people have never heard of.

Bungalow at Kings River Deck House in Arkansas.

Ar 2016 Annual Report Preserves

Have you visited a preserve lately? If not, you should plan to, because you’ve helped make many of the Conservancy’s places more accessible and fun.

Located above Sherfield Cave, the 1,226-acre Smith Creek Preserve, along with a conservation agreement with a neighboring landowner that protects the cave's entrance, helps safeguard Arkansas' largest colony of endangered Indiana bats.

Arkansas Chapter Timeline

Learn about the 35-plus year history of The Nature Conservancy in Arkansas.

Closeup view of Zebra mussels from the Detroit River.

Invasive Species Arkansas

Invasive species damage the habitats that native plants and animals need to survive, and they hurt economies and threaten human well-being. The estimated damage from invasive species worldwide totals more than $1.4 trillion—5 percent of the global economy.

Reducing Sediment From Unpaved Roads

The Nature Conservancy, Arkansas Association of Counties and the Arkansas Farm Bureau are working together to improve unpaved roads across Arkansas.

Arkansas staff leads prescribed fire workshop in Zambia

From Arkansas To Africa

During the past three years, Arkansas fire managers have been helping The Nature Conservancy’s Africa program and its partners with prescribed fire management planning.

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