Date: 7/10/25 11:29 am From: Jerry Davis <jwdavis...> Subject: Re: BOBWHITES SINGING IN FORMER BEATY PRAIRIE
And why not the Fayetteville area newspapers? People cannot solve a
problem unless they know one exists and then one percent may respond.
Jerry
On 2025-07-10 12:24 pm, Patty McLean wrote:
> 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=NSMWBT >
> Patty McLean
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> From: Michael Ferrara
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> Date: 7/10/25 12:06 PM (GMT-06:00)
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> Subject: Re: BOBWHITES SINGING IN FORMER BEATY PRAIRIE
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> 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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> From: Taylor Long <mtaylorlong...>
> Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2025 8:08 AM
> To: ARBIRD-L <arbird-l...>; Jerry Davis
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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:
> https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/10604-N-Highway-43-Maysville-AR-72747/70694168_zpid/?utm_campaign=zillowwebmessage&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=txtshare > [2]
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> 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.
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