The ANHC Herbarium staff consists of Ecologist, Chief of Research, and Curator Theo Witsell; Botanist and Collections Manager Brent Baker; Botanist and Arkansas Herbarium Digitization Coordinator ... Read More
Natural News
Natural News
ANHC Herbarium: A Library of Plants
Arkansas Natural Heritage Commission - Tuesday, January 28, 2020
by Ruthie Berryhill updated from a 2013 Department of Arkansas Heritage Storyline article Books are stored, cataloged, and organized for reference in a library. An herbarium, like a library, is a ... Read More
Witsell Gives Lecture to Clinton School for Public Service, Retraces Nuttall's Journey Through Arkansas
Arkansas Natural Heritage Commission - Thursday, November 21, 2019
ANHC’s Chief of Research recently gave a public lecture entitled “Following Nuttall: A Bicentenary Interpretation of Thomas Nuttall’s Exploration of the Arkansas Territory” at the Clinton School f ... Read More
Two New Faces at the ANHC
Arkansas Natural Heritage Commission - Thursday, November 21, 2019
The ANHC has added two new staff members: Administrative Assistant, Ingrid Green and Botanist, Diana Soteropoulos. Ingrid has been hired as the ANHC’s new part-time administrative assistant. She r ... Read More
From the Field: Mosquitoes, Pondberry, and Appreciation
Arkansas Natural Heritage Commission - Friday, September 28, 2018
by Leslie Patrick St. Francis Sunken Lands Natural Area is a bottomland forest in northeast Arkansas in Poinsett County, on the east side of the St. Francis River. The area is slightly elevated ... Read More
DNA Confirms 3 Plant Species New to Arkansas; 1 New to Science
Arkansas Natural Heritage Commission - Friday, December 15, 2017
New discoveries are often made because something doesn’t look quite right. This is especially true in biology. “When we’re in the field we always look for odd-looking specimens that don’t qui ... Read More
Partners Use New Lab Facility
Arkansas Natural Heritage Commission - Thursday, February 23, 2017
As an agency of the Department of Arkansas Heritage (DAH), the Arkansas Natural Heritage Commission (ANHC) moved into offices at the newly constructed DAH headquarters in August 2016. In past ... Read More
New Herbarium Space Completed
Arkansas Natural Heritage Commission - Thursday, January 26, 2017
The Arkansas Natural Heritage Commission (ANHC) has been a recognized herbarium by Index Herbariorum (IH) (http://sweetgum.nybg.org/science/ih/), the official database of worldwide herbaria maint ... Read More
New Trail Dedicated at Warren Prairie Natural Area
Arkansas Natural Heritage Commission - Wednesday, December 14, 2016
The Arkansas Natural Heritage Commission (ANHC) and The Nature Conservancy (TNC) (http://www.nature.org/ourinitiatives/regions/northamerica/unitedstates/arkansas/) dedicated a new nature trail at ... Read More
An Unexpected Find in an Unexpected Place
Arkansas Natural Heritage Commission - Friday, November 04, 2016
Unusual sites often support unusual species. That’s the kind of proven biological wisdom that guides the field staff of the ANHC on a daily basis. Sometimes an unusual site is a rare rock or soil ... Read More
Recent Posts
- Reassessment of Arkansas Crayfish Conservation Ranks
- Crayfish Diversity at the ANHC's System of Natural Areas
- The Crayfishes of Arkansas
- The Mystery of the Leopard-spotted Crayfish
- The Crayfish Story No One Believed (But Turned Out to Be True)
- A Beautiful Giant in Ozark Streams: The Longpincered Crayfish
- The Burrowing Crayfish of Arkansas: Secret Lives and Remarkable Diversity
- Prairies, Flatwoods, and Seeps - Prime Habitats for Burrowing Crayfish
- Two Grants Fund Habitat Restoration at Warren Prairie
- Global Big Day: A Local Perspective
Tags
- 4H (3)
- ADEQ (6)
- Adopt a Natural Area Program (10)
- AGFC (44)
- Alum Fork NA (1)
- ANAP (7)
- ANCRC (5)
- anglers (3)
- ANHC Research Garden (1)
- aquatic (7)
- aquatic ecologist (6)
- Arkansas American Fisheries Society (1)
- Arkansas Climbers Coalition (1)
- Arkansas Commissioner of State Lands (1)
- Arkansas Feral Hog Eradication Task Force (1)
- Arkansas Forestry Commission (2)
- Arkansas Game and Fish Foundation (1)
- Arkansas Monarch and Pollinator Conservation Plan (1)
- Arkansas Monarch Conservation Partnership (1)
- Arkansas Native Seed Program (4)
- Arkansas Prescribed Fire Council (8)
- Arkansas State Parks (3)
- Arkansas State University (5)
- Arkansas Stream Heritage Partnership (1)
- Arkansas Tarantula Survey (1)
- Arkansas Tech University (5)
- Arkansas Wildlife Federation (1)
- Atlas of the Vascular Plants of Arkansas (3)
- Audubon Arkansas (5)
- award (2)
- Baker Prairie (7)
- barrens (3)
- bats (17)
- Bayou Dorcheat (2)
- Bear Hollow Natural Area (2)
- Beatrix Potter (3)
- Beaver Lake (5)
- Beaver Watershed Alliance (3)
- bees (1)
- Benson Creek Natural Area (2)
- Big Creek (3)
- BioBlitz (2)
- biodiversity (12)
- biology (4)
- birding (19)
- BirdsEye (1)
- blackland prairie (2)
- botanists (14)
- botany (24)
- BrandenBark (1)
- Buffalo River (2)
- burn school (8)
- butterfly (12)
- Byrd Lake (10)
- C tinctoria (1)
- Camp Robison (8)
- cave (12)
- Cave Springs Cave (5)
- Cave Springs Cave NA (5)
- Central Arkansas Master Naturalists (4)
- Central Arkansas Trail Alliance (1)
- channel scar pond (1)
- Cherokee Prairie (14)
- Chesney Prairie Natural Area (8)
- Christmas Bird Count (2)
- citizen science (5)
- clean up (3)
- Coffee Prairie (1)
- Commission (8)
- community (3)
- conference (1)
- conservation (27)
- conservation concern (8)
- Cooperative Extension Service (3)
- Cornell Lab (1)
- Cossatot River (4)
- Cossatot State Park-Natural Area (6)
- Cove Creek (7)
- COVID-19 (4)
- crayfish (1)
- Crayfish edition (8)
- Current Darter (2)
- Cut-off Creek Ravines (1)
- DAH (14)
- Dale Bumpers (2)
- Dardanelle Rock (2)
- Dark Corner Creek (1)
- darters (2)
- depression wetland (1)
- Devil's Eyebrow (18)
- Devil's Knob (7)
- Diana fritillary (4)
- digitization (6)
- DLAMN (2)
- DNA (1)
- Down's Prairie (11)
- Drew County Master Gardeners (1)
- drone (1)
- dye (1)
- eastern red cedar (8)
- eBird (2)
- Eco Corridor (4)
- ecoregions (1)
- ecosystem (8)
- ectotherms (1)
- Education (13)
- Endangered Species (30)
- Endangered Species Art Contest (8)
- endemic (6)
- environmental education (14)
- environmental science (5)
- extirpated (3)
- Falcon Bottoms (3)
- fall (3)
- FAMN (1)
- fen (1)
- feral hogs (2)
- fire (15)
- firefly (1)
- first aid (1)
- fish (2)
- fisheries (1)
- fitness (2)
- flatwood (1)
- folium (1)
- forest (4)
- Fort Chaffee (1)
- Foushee Cave (8)
- Foushee Cave snail (5)
- Friends of Rattlesnake Ridge (1)
- fungi (1)
- Gap Creek (2)
- geocarpon (4)
- Get Involved (11)
- ghost (1)
- ghost flower (1)
- giant cane (1)
- glades (12)
- GLO (7)
- Global Big Day (1)
- Governor Asa Hutchinson (1)
- Grand Prairie (6)
- grant (5)
- Great Backyard Bird Count (1)
- H.E. Flanagan Prairie (13)
- habitat (14)
- habitat restoration (18)
- Hall's Creek Canyon Natural Area (4)
- hammocking (8)
- harperella (1)
- health (5)
- Henslow's sparrows (5)
- herbarium (29)
- herpetology (1)
- hibernation (3)
- hiking (14)
- honeysuckle (1)
- Hot Springs Village (2)
- Hubbs' Crayfish (1)
- hummingbirds (1)
- hunting (4)
- Huttig Pine Flatwoods (3)
- hyperpigmentation (1)
- ichthyology (1)
- iDigBio (1)
- insects (5)
- invasive plants (8)
- irruption (1)
- IRWP (7)
- Joe Neal (1)
- KAB (2)
- karst (11)
- Kings River (4)
- Kings River Falls (6)
- Kingsland Prairie (2)
- kudzu (1)
- land managers (3)
- land surveys (1)
- Leave No Trace (3)
- leopard darter (1)
- Little River County (1)
- Little Rock Zoo (2)
- loblolly pine (1)
- Logoly (1)
- Longview Saline (5)
- Lorance Creek (10)
- Louisiana Purchase (3)
- LWCF (3)
- macroinvertebrates (1)
- Madison County (1)
- Master Naturalists (9)
- medieval (1)
- metamorphosis (1)
- Middle Fork Barrens (9)
- migration (3)
- milkweed (5)
- Mississippi Alluvial Plain (2)
- monarch (8)
- Moro Big Pine (4)
- moths (3)
- mycology (3)
- NAA (2)
- Nacatoch Ravines NA (1)
- NAI (1)
- National Parks Service (3)
- National Seed Strategy (2)
- National Wild Turkey Federation (5)
- Native Animals (11)
- Native Plants (33)
- native seed (7)
- Natural Areas (30)
- natural channel design (1)
- Natural Divisions (7)
- natural history (4)
- Natural News Special Edition (22)
- NatureServe (1)
- NAWC (1)
- NCAMN (2)
- NCRC (3)
- non-native invasive plants (7)
- North Sylamore Creek (2)
- northern bobwhite (6)
- Northwest Arkansas Land Trust (2)
- Notes From Nature (4)
- NWA Audubon Society (1)
- NWA Open Space Plan (3)
- NWACC (4)
- NWAMN (8)
- Oklahoma State University (1)
- OLL (1)
- ONSC (3)
- open pine (1)
- open space (4)
- Ouachita hawthorn (1)
- Ouachita Mountains (3)
- Ouachita National Forest (3)
- Ouachita shiner (1)
- Outdoor Hall of Fame (1)
- owl (1)
- Ozark cavefish (4)
- Ozark Ecological Restoration (3)
- Ozark Mountains (9)
- Ozark Plateau (1)
- Palmetto Flats NA (1)
- parasitic (1)
- parking (3)
- Parks and Tourism (1)
- Peter Rabbit (3)
- photography (11)
- Pine City (7)
- Pinnacle Mountain State Park (1)
- PLSS (1)
- poikilotherms (1)
- pollinator (9)
- pondberry (6)
- Potlatch (1)
- prairie mole cricket (3)
- prairies (17)
- prescribed burn (23)
- Prescribed Fire Council (5)
- privet (3)
- public use (11)
- publications (2)
- pupa (1)
- queen (2)
- Railroad Prairie (9)
- Rare Plants (16)
- rare species (19)
- Rattlesnake Ridge NA (4)
- RCW (20)
- recharge zone (1)
- record (4)
- regal fritillary (1)
- reptiles (1)
- research (15)
- restoration (20)
- riparian (1)
- river cane (1)
- RLA (1)
- Rock Creek (1)
- Rock Creek NA (1)
- Ross Foundation (1)
- salamander (2)
- saline barrens (2)
- Saline River (1)
- school (2)
- Schoolcraft (2)
- science (6)
- SDAFS (1)
- Search and Rescue (2)
- Searles Prairie (4)
- seep (2)
- sericea lespedeza (1)
- SERNEC (4)
- Seven Devils Swamp (2)
- shortleaf pine (1)
- shrubby lespedeza (1)
- skin reaction (1)
- Slippery Hollow Natural Area (3)
- Smithsonian (2)
- smoke-tree (1)
- Southeast Arkansas Stormwater Education Program (2)
- Southern Aquatic Resource Partnership (1)
- Species of Greatest Conservation Need (1)
- specimens (10)
- spring (5)
- St. Francis Sunken Lands (3)
- staff (7)
- Steven Hunter (1)
- stream restoration (1)
- student (5)
- stygobite (1)
- stygophile (1)
- stygoxene (1)
- summer (3)
- sunlight (2)
- SUPERB (1)
- surveyors (2)
- surveys (8)
- swamp (2)
- Sweden Creek (6)
- sweet-breath-of-spring (1)
- System of Natural Areas (22)
- tall fescue (1)
- tallgrass prairie (9)
- tarantulas (1)
- Terre Noire (5)
- The Connecticut Audubon Society (1)
- The Conservation Fund (1)
- Thomas Nuttall (1)
- TNC (23)
- Tom Foti (7)
- trails (15)
- transcription (6)
- translocation (3)
- TREC (1)
- troblobite (1)
- troglophile (1)
- trogloxene (1)
- turnsole (1)
- underground aquifer (1)
- University of Arkansas (5)
- University of Central Arkansas (3)
- US Army Corps of Engineers (6)
- US Forest Service (1)
- US Geological Survey (1)
- USDA (1)
- USFWS (24)
- UT Knoxville (1)
- UV light (1)
- veterans (2)
- volunteer (16)
- volunteers (13)
- Walmart Stores Inc. (1)
- Walton Family Foundation (4)
- War Eagle Creek (1)
- Warren Prairie Natural Area (25)
- Watchable Wildlife (2)
- Water Quality (6)
- watercolor (1)
- WeDigBio (1)
- Western Arkansas Master Naturalists (3)
- wetlands (7)
- White Cliffs Natural Area (4)
- White Nose Syndrome (5)
- White River Wildlife Refuge (1)
- wild parsnip (1)
- wild turkey (4)
- wildflower (3)
- winter (2)
- WMA (2)
- women in science (3)
- Women's History Month (1)
- Workshop (7)
- YouTube (1)
- zoology (2)