Southern Mountain Home Soccer Park's Boletim

24 de agosto de 2019

Creation of this "Place"

I've created this "place" on this website since I've been making observations here recently. I will likely add other places locally in the near future such as Cooper, Willet, and other Mountain Home parks. For more details about me, see my profile on this website or my own website as sedgehead with the dot and com added. I'm a semi-retired botanist and ecologist turned freelance writer and editor. I have been to China four times since 2014 and started adding observations there based on old and 2019 photos recently. My interest in this website is its wetland nature. Sadly, it appears some of the wetland has been filled in to make soccer fields.

Nevertheless, I found two new Carex species to the county here last spring, Carex pellita and Carex squarrosa. This is significant because I have fun saying I am the world's expert on Arkansas Carex species having collected thousands of specimens in Arkansas and identified more than 7500, bringing the number of taxa in Arkansas from 88 to 131 recognized in the state. I did my master's thesis (1991) on the vascular plants of Baxter County and previously found 61 taxa in the county. Adding two new tax in one day to the county flora surprised me; this means this site is unique to the county because this supports these species found no where else in Baxter County despite extensive searches.

I've recently developed an interest in dragonflies and damselflies, as indicated by my observations here and elsewhere. At age 67, I don't expect to live forever, so I encourage others to become co-managers of this place on this website! Unfortunately, all of the current 41 observations made here are mine.

I've come to dislike places named after people so I don't use the official name for this place! Such is life!

Posted on 24 de agosto de 2019, 04:06 AM by sedgehead sedgehead | 0 comentários | Deixar um comentário

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