Arkansas  

 

The LWDF is dominated by supercanopy loblolly and shortleaf pine, most of which exceed 150 years. (photo by Don Bragg)

• Some New Arkansas Champions July 2007
• Potential National Champion Water Tupelo Sept 2006
• Big Arkansas Willow Oaks April 2005
• Levi Wilcoxon Demonstration Forest: Shortleaf Pine April 2005
• Search for the Ivory Billed Woodpecker Jan 2003
• Levi Wilcoxon Demonstration Forest, Desc & Gallery Aug 2004
• LWDF and a champion shortleaf pine March 2006
• University of Arkansas - Monticello Campus Trees March 2005
• Village Creek State Park- Kudzu Aug 2006
• Ivory Billed Woodpecker Found April 2005
• Arkansas 7th Old Growth Conference March 2006
• Ivory Billed Woodpecker notes April 2006

• Big, Ancient, and Historical Trees of Arkansas,Past and Present - Don Bragg
  Dismal Hollow Research Natural Area, in Ozark National Forest, Arkansas (Newton County): an estimated 400 acres of undisrupted forest in the bottom of a steep canyon. Beech dominate.  http://www.fs.fed.us/oonf/ozark/index.html 
• Levi Wilcoxon Demonstration Forest (LWDF) south of Hamburg, Arkansas Aug 2004
• Former national champion loblolly had lived in a bottomland in Cleveland County.  Unfortunately, this giant was blown over in a windstorm in April 2003 (check out http://www.afrc.uamont.edu/cookie.htm for some pictures of this tree, standing and felled).