Date: 7/10/25 8:54 am From: Joseph Neal <0000078cbd583d7c-dmarc-request...> Subject: Re: BOBWHITES SINGING IN FORMER BEATY PRAIRIE
I wish I could buy all of this right now. The future — when all this native flora is gone — would surely be thankful.
But, if YOU (someone out there) were in the market for 4-acres, one of the best pieces of the former Beaty is at corner of highway 72 and Schoolhouse road. This is a delta-shaped piece of land in a big curve. The part fronting highway 72 is a rich Tallgrass Prairie. The back was planted with pines at some point. The pines could be cut (and sold) so that this property would, like the front, expess the botanical wealth of Beaty. I don't know the price. I can't buy it. But it would be a good piece to have in some kind of trust or something because of ease of access and botanical wealth.
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From: The Birds of Arkansas Discussion List <ARBIRD-L...> on behalf of Taylor Long <00000455b6b08e87-dmarc-request...>
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Subject: Re: BOBWHITES SINGING IN FORMER BEATY PRAIRIE
On July 10, 2025, Jerry Davis <jwdavis...> wrote:
Thank you for championing this cause and trying to get the word out. Why wouldn't this be something that the Audubon Chapters in the state supported and used they position to write letters? Maybe the calls of many could interest them in doing something more.
Jerry
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From: The Birds of Arkansas Discussion List <ARBIRD-L...> on behalf of Joseph Neal <0000078cbd583d7c-dmarc-request...> Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2025 6:40 AM To: <ARBIRD-L...> <ARBIRD-L...> Subject: BOBWHITES SINGING IN FORMER BEATY PRAIRIE
Yesterday’s birding and prairie flowering trip to former Beaty Prairie in western Benton County yielded a number of pleasant surprises. One that gave me most pleasure was hearing Northern Bobwhites calling from six separate places, mainly in the area of Leonard Ranch X Schoolhouse roads. Overall, good bird activity generally: https://ebird.org/checklist/S258607230 None of once extensive Beaty Prairie is in public ownership, but old Beaty survives in a few spots, mainly rights-of-way along local roads. It is totally blazing with native prairie flora now. I wrote up a guide and suggestions for seeing this. I gave it the name Beaty Prairie Botanical Area, though this designation is just mine. I never managed to interest anyone in the highway department to actually try and preserve this: https://nwarkaudubon.org/Places%20to%20Bird%20PDFs/BEATIE%20PRAIRIE%20BOTANICAL%20AREA%20in%20August%202011.pdf If you aunt and uncle, or even your second cousin, knows anyone high up in highways, maybe you could whisper in their ears about saving the beauty of these stands of Ashy Sunflowers, Prairie Blazing Stars, and some of all the amazing rest of our native prairie flora in Northwest Arkansas City.
