Two five-minute nature videos recorded on 28 July 2011 to be run on Fayetteville Public Television from Monday, August 1, 2011, through Friday, August 5, 2011

Planning Commission passes the sale-barn rezoning to the City Council at June 27 meeting despite comments of neighbors and veterans

Widening Cato Springs Road need not kill historic tree: Please attend gathering at 1 p.m. Thursday, July 7, 2011

HUGGING FAYETTEVILLE'S TREES

ON THURSDAY, JULY 7, AT 1:00PM there will be a  FAYETTEVILLE TREE HUG  in celebration of the very old and large COTTONWOOD TREE  at Cato Springs Road and Vale Avenue (1410 Cato Springs) west of the railroad.

Everyone is welcome to come celebrate this tree, which was growing in Fayetteville during the early days of our town's settlement in this area called Fayette Junction, and to cool off beneath its branches while 

enjoying some iced tea or lemonade.  Bring a lawn chair if you wish. 

Because of road widening, great concern for the long-term survival

and health of this tree has been expressed by people familiar with the

area, its history, and this tree's beauty. 

The celebration is to bring attention to the various threats, which this

tree may face and to ask the city for two specific

written commitments:

1.

That there will be no trenching within the drip-line of this tree

because that would sever its vital root system, and instead that the

needed utilities, etc. be installed via a bored tunnel beneath the root

system at a depth recommended by the Arkansas Forestry Commission's urban forester

and/or the city's urban forester.  In this process the bore should also

extend beyond the root system of the healthy 22-year-old pine tree just

west of the cottonwood in order to protect it as well.

2.

That there will be no driving, paving, digging, dumping, parking, or

other disruptive construction activities done around these trees'

crucial root systems/drip line areas, which will be fenced and the

fencing will remain for the duration of the construction process.

Video of slide show to run June 27-July 1, 2011, on Fayetteville Public Television

Doug Tallamy tells us about 'Bringing Nature Home' to provide habitat for wildlife

Please click on individual images to ENLARGE for easy reading.

Education Channel agreement between Fayetteville public-school system and Fayetteville city government moving toward final form

Invitation to attend Earth Day 2011 at World Peace Wetland Prairie and share your information on environmental and natural-resource conservation

Please click on image to ENLARGE view of Donna Stjerna and Kelly Mullholan's poster for Earth Day 2011 at World Peace Wetland Prairie.

World Peace Wetland Prairie EARTH DAY 2010 VIDEO
 Flickr collection of sets of photos from World Peace Wetland Prairie
World Peace Wetland Prairie blog
World Peace Wetland Prairie.com
Aubrey's photos at flickr.com



2000-2005 archive of stories and photos related to creation of WPWP: www.aubunique.com

Please use link below the map to see larger view of the WPWP area, which also allows a person to travel the world by 'Google AIR' by simply using the cursor to move in any direction or search for other addresses.

View World Peace Wetland Prairie in a larger map

Video running this week (11 a.m., 5 p.m. and 11 p.m. Monday through Friday on Fayetteville public-access television

Tour Hank Kaminsky's studio open this afternoon and shop with 10 percent off on art of every kind: Classiest business in the Town Branch Neighborhood

 Please click on image to ENLARGE view of Village Sculptor studio and workshop on South Government Avenue near the Fayetteville National Cemetery.

Hank Kaminsky's art sale at his Village Sculptor studio workshop on Government Avenue between MLK and the Fayetteville National Cemetery late morning and most of the afternoon today. Bargains on extraordinary pieces of local sculpture and jewelry.
Free coffee and a free tour of the workshop where some of Fayetteville's finest public art has been created.

Newly passed by the Fayetteville City Council, the stream side ordinance may be able to prevent such abuses as seen witnessed below on March 21, 2011.

Please click on individual images to ENLARGE views of pollution headed directly to Spout Spring Branch without the polluted water being allowed to soak in and be cleansed before heading to Beaver Lake.

Unpleasant looking runoff from storm drain on north edge of Fifteenth Street. Is it caused by naturally occurring algae or by whatever a homeowner on South College Avenue dumped from a bucket shown in photo below?

Drain entrance still wet two hours after I watched a guy dump a bucket there. Material appeared to be white paint chips and thick plastic-like goo that could be material from a paint can.

Flow from storm drain above enters Spout Spring Branch on north side of 15th Street.

The gel-like material at first glance looked like icicles but the the temperature hadn't been below freezing for more than a week.

Seeds from pod of vine milkweed knocked down by Arkansas Highway Department machines dredging ditch the routes water from a storm drain on the south side of 15th Street directly into Spout Spring Branch. Milkweed plants of all varieties provide foliage to the caterpillars of monarchs and a few other species of butterfly and logically would be protected by a state highway department whose Web site touts its wildflower program.

Back on the northside of 15th Street, which is a state highway at that point, the water polluted by something but at least there is a remnant of vegetation including the same milkvine and a few other native species.

The highway workers dredged out part of the business owner's landscaping and widened and deepened the ditch. And hauled away the good soil to its dump in south Washington County.

Both the dumping of ANYTHING into a storm drain and the dredging of the ditch and allowing erosion violate best-management practices for watershed management and were already illegal before Fayetteville's new streamside ordinance was passed. If the ADEQ and the AHTD and the US Corps of Engineeers won't protect our water supply, maybe this new ordinance will embolden city officials to see that such things don't happen so often in the future.