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The collection includes site reports, management plans, annual reports, brochures, publications, and other materials produced by or related to the Arkansas Natural Heritage Commission and its management of Arkansas natural areas and natural resources.

Content Description The collection consists of 22 CDs containing recordings of Arkansas environmentalist and physician Neil Compton, primarily of Compton narrating his travel through the Ozarks and nearby areas and responding to questions from Kay Schroeder, who created the recordings. Content includes historical narratives; anecdotes; geographic, geologic, and botanical descriptions; and folk songs. In some cases, Compton's daughter, Ellen Compton, is also present on the recordings. The collection also...

Scope and Content Note The collection includes formational documents of the organization, including its bylaws, a copy of its certificate of incorporation, articles of incorporation, and IRS tax exemption declaration; several issues of the organization’s newsletter, Ozarkia; and Board of Directors meeting minutes and correspondence. In addition, a press release, meetings minutes, and other materials relating to the activities of the Northwest Arkansas Environmental Guardianship, an...

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Organizational records of Friends For Fayetteville, a community organization focused on responsible development and land use. Materials include a board member orientation packet, a list of organizational accomplishments, photographs, and materials regarding the group's commemorative tree program.

Scope and Content Note The collection contains organizational materials, correspondence, event promotional materials, newspaper clippings, photographs, and videos. Also included are materials from the OMNI Center's "library," including magazines, newsletters, journals, etc. As of August 2017, the collection includes ongoing captures of the OMNI Center's website and Twitter account. These captures are scheduled by Special Collections staff using the Archive-It tool, a subscription service run...

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Correspondence, memoranda, financial records, bulletins, legislative bills, clippings, and other published and unpublished records created or received by the principal officers of the Arkansas conservationist and environmental protection society, pertaining especially to its efforts on behalf of Congressional legislation to establish the Buffalo National River.

Scope and Content Note The collection consists of administrative files that include, among other records, the Society's by-laws, certificate of incorporation and membership lists; general correspondence as well as the one received and generated by the Society's presidents, secretaries, newsletter editors, and other officers; financial records comprising bank statements, treasurers reports, federal and state tax returns and others; minutes of the Board meetings as well as materials relating to general membership...

Scope and Content Note This collection contains materials about Neil Compton; materials regarding environmental activism, including brochures, prints, and newspaper clippings; newsletters, including Pack and Paddle, Call of the Wild, and the Ozark Society; correspondence, maps, event/trip information, meeting minutes and agendas for the Sugar Creek Chapter; legislative orders; and order forms for environmental...

Scope and Content Note This collection contains materials concerning the preservation of the Buffalo, Cossatot, and Eleven Point rivers put forth by the Ozark Society, the Arkansas Conservation Council, the Arkansas Nature Conservancy, and the Federated Garden Clubs of Arkansas. Other materials concern the founding of the Ozark Society. Several item in the collection were created by Evangeline Archer, secretary of the Ozark Society in the 1960s. The materials also include various publications dating from the 1960s...

Scope and Content Note Correspondence, news releases, clippings (electro­static copy), report, memorandum, list, April 1964, December 3, 1964 to March 2, 1965 and undated, created received, or collected by Fort Smith, Ark. lawyer Robert W. Vater and pertaining to efforts by Ozark Society and others on behalf of Congressional legislation to estab­lish the Buffalo National River. Correspondents include Evangeline Pratt Waterman Archer, Neil Ernest Compton, William Orville Douglas, Edmond Augustus...