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ONSC Offers March Programs for Adults and Families

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The Ozark Natural Science Center near Huntsville, Arkansas has several programs in store for interested adults and families. The center is located about 3 miles off Highway 23 in the McIlroy Madison County Wildlife, between Huntsville and Eureka Springs. The…[read further]

Ozark Natural Science Center

Buffalo National River 40th Anniversary Microsite Launched on Arkansas.com

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On March 1, 1972, Arkansas’s Buffalo River was named the first national river in the United States. The Arkansas Department of Parks and Tourism celebrates this important anniversary with a new interactive section dedicated to the river and its visitors.…[read further]

By Zoie Clift, Arkansas Department of Parks & Tourism

Crystal Bridges Art Museum

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Featuring a story about an art museum may seem unusual for an outdoors website, but Crystal Bridges is anything but typical for an art museum. Designed to blend into the 120 acres of wooded grounds on which it is built,…[read further]

By Robert J. Korpella

Bell Slough Nature Trail Provides Calm with Wildlife Bonuses

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A handy and no-cost prescription for relaxing, for letting tensions, worries and headaches fade away, is to visit the Kenny Vernon Nature Trail at Bell slough Wildlife Management Area. It begins nearly in the shadow of busy Interstate 40, yet…[read further]

By Arkansas Game and Fish

Who Will Find the 30,000th Diamond at Crater of Diamonds State Park??

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Crater of Diamonds State Park in Murfreesboro is set to celebrate two big milestones this year.  March 15th marks 40 years since the site’s creation as an Arkansas state park… and sometime soon, the 30,000th diamond found since the park’s…[read further]

By Kat Robinson

Rockwoods Reservation’s Maple Sugar Festival Unlocks the Secret Sweets of Trees

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Winter may not be everybody’s favorite time of year, but many might be surprised to learn that trees are actually pretty sweet on it.

For about six weeks, from mid-January to the end of February, Mother Nature cooks…[read further]

By Missouri Dept. of Conservation

2011 a Successful Year for Diamond Hunters at the Crater of Diamonds State Park

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Looking back over the past 12 months, the year 2011 has been a successful one for the park visitors who have hunted for diamonds in the 37 ½-acre search area at Arkansas’s diamond site, the Crater of Diamonds State Park.…[read further]

By Jill M. Rohrbach, Ark. Dept. of Parks and Tourism

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