Nature

A conversation with Stephanie Bolin, outreach coordinator at the Beaver Watershed Alliance, about War Eagle Appreciation Day — a free community event held on the banks of War Eagle Creek that combines music, nature, family-friendly activities, and hands-on environmental education and stewardship.

We hear from ONSC executive director Rose Brown about their upcoming Spring fundraiser and annual summer camps.

University of Arkansas instructor and poet Geffrey Davis will be reading from some of his “nature inspired” works at a free community reading at Hobbs State Park this Sunday, April 27.

Pete speaks with Historic Cane Hill's Amanda Cothren about the annual Ozark Bug Crawl.

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.

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."

Jay Stoyanov is the host of the new music show on KUAF 3 “Natural States," a show about the influence of nature on music.

Joe 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.

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.

Pete Hartman speaks with the Pollinator Partnership who will be hosting the community class Nativing Suburbia Thursday at 9:30am at the Bentonville Public Library.