Trees

Earth Day and Arbor Day were last week, and the city of Fayetteville hosted a variety of events in celebration of those holidays and what they called “Tree Week.” Ozarks at Large’s Jack Travis visited a Tree Week event and brings us this report.

Matt Holden’s “what I did this summer” essay for 2025 should be interesting. On today's show, we hear that the Fayetteville teacher’s summer will include trips into the Pacific Ocean and to Africa. This summer also means the inaugural Ozark Music Festival all around northwest Arkansas, so we'll provide a glimpse of what's to come. Also, the city of Fayetteville named this year's Amazing Tree, but what makes it so special?

Remnant Osage Orange trees which were once plentiful across the eastern U.S. continue to grow on the Ozark Highlands as well as in a few other southern…

Extreme weather in 2021 — a prolonged winter vortex, heavy spring rains, high summer heat and drought — is “scorching” certain hardwoods in Arkansas.…

The annual Natural State Tree Climbing Championship is this weekend at Walker Park in Fayetteville. More than three dozen professional climbing arborists…

A champion persimmon tree growing in Fayetteville's historic Wilson Park was discovered late last year by a city parks employee, formally nominated, and…

A large elm tree located on the north side of Washington Regional Medical Center’s campus is being designated one of the “Amazing Trees of Fayetteville”…

What could be the first linear arboretum in Arkansas is taking shape in Eureka Springs. According to project coordinator Christopher Fischer, the…

The city of Fayetteville is asking residents to cut down their Bradford Pear trees, an invasive species, and exchange them for a native tree species.…

The city of Eureka Springs, thirty-five years ago, was the first city in the state to be designated a "Tree City USA" by the national Arbor Day…