Date: 7/10/25 11:24 am From: Patty McLean <000008e6fff5e5c8-dmarc-request...> Subject: Re: BOBWHITES SINGING IN FORMER BEATY PRAIRIE
Joe, just a thought but one option might be to share your great write up with photos on the Northwest Arkansas Facebook page. https://www.facebook.com/groups/northwestarkansas/?ref=share&mibextid=NSMWBTPatty McLean
-------- Original message --------From: Michael Ferrara <00000fca8e4de7ff-dmarc-request...> Date: 7/10/25 12:06 PM (GMT-06:00) To: <ARBIRD-L...> Subject: Re: BOBWHITES SINGING IN FORMER BEATY PRAIRIE
Another potential option would be for somebody to mention something to Northwest Arkansas LandTrust. I have not worked with them, but I've worked with other LandTrusts that have shown interest in protecting those kinds of landscapes.
Michael Ferrara
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Thanks for the information. There are 2,800 Billionaires and 22,000,000 millionaires in this country. I am not one of them, but it would be nice if one would decide to do something to help the conservation of our remaining prairie and the birds that use it.
Jerry Wayne Davis
Hot Springs, AR
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Subject: Re: BOBWHITES SINGING IN FORMER BEATY PRAIRIE
Here's some land for sale right in the area Joe has highlighted as the most botanically rich in his PDF:
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
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 North
ern 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 p
rairie
flora in Northwest Arkansas City.
