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As development progresses throughout Fort Smith, the Janet Huckabee River Valley Nature Center seems to have been left behind. The Game and Fish Commission-run center has been untouched since its grand opening. Now, state officials and community leaders are raising funds for a renovation. Ozarks at Large’s Jack Travis visited the Nature Center to learn more about the space and how an update will better serve the community.
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On today's show, a nature center in Fort Smith is getting some much-needed improvements. Also, learning more about Italian immigrants who left harsh conditions on a southern plantation to establish Tontitown. Plus, a trip through the world of ballads on a new edition of "Sound Perimeter."
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Jay Stoyanov is the host of the new music show on KUAF 3 “Natural States," a show about the influence of nature on music.
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KUAF Community SpotlightJoe Neal, a nationally recognized bird expert, has studied and photographed the birds and insects that visit the Ozark chinquapin trees planted at Hobbs State Park. There is much to learn about the Ozark chinquapin tree since a Chestnut blight killed most of them almost 65 years ago.
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Gerry Sloan’s poetry is much like Ozarks’ weather. It can take any form, can surprise and can simultaneously evoke comfort and challenge. His poetry is included in the new book “Wild Muse: Ozarks Nature Poetry,” from Cornerpost Press. He will read from the book, along with two other Arkansas poets, at Pearl’s Books Friday night at six.
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KUAF Community SpotlightPete Hartman speaks with the Pollinator Partnership who will be hosting the community class Nativing Suburbia Thursday at 9:30am at the Bentonville Public Library.
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A new traveling exhibit from the Smithsonian Institution opens in the historic town of Cane Hill this weekend.
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A new traveling exhibit from the Smithsonian Institution opens in the historic town of Cane Hill this weekend.
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Over the weekend Northsong Wild Bird Rehabilitation released a barred owl back into the wild, four months after being taken in for severe head trauma and…
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A team of Hendrix College professors and students have determined the value of ecological services delivered by abandoned oil and natural gas extraction…