December 15, 20202:21 pm
Apparently Christmas is still happening, and if you’ve let this much of December go by without making a gift-giving plan, we’ve got a few suggestions, most made in Arkansas and all made to delight the recipient. Get cracking, though; if you’re sending these gifts through the mail instead of dropping them off locally, the clock’s ticking.
UA Press
“Trees, Shrubs, and Woody Vines of Arkansas”
I’m fairly confident that I will win Christmas with my tree-obsessed son with a gift of “Trees, Shrubs, and Woody Vines of Arkansas,” a new 536-page field guide from the Ozark Society (and distributed by the University of Arkansas Press). It’s by several of the preeminent plant experts in the state: Johnnie Gentry, former director and curator of the UA Herbarium and emeritus professor of biology at UA; Jennifer Ogle, collections manager at the UA Herbarium; and Theo Witsell, ecologist and chief of research for the Arkansas Natural Heritage Commissio