Earth Day 2013 was ninth-annual celebration at World Peace Wetland Prairie: Please click on headline below to go to You Tube and select full-frame view

Lauren D Hawkins age 16

Frisbee Golf course through pristine wooded hill portion of Walker Park proposed: Fayetteville park board approves. How many acres of healthy habitat will be disturbed?

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Fayetteville's environmental-action committee advises city council on controversial development site in northeast Fayetteville: To view full screen, please click on headline below to go to YOU TUBE

Bumblebee program by entomologist Amber Tripodi based on 2011 study of various northwest Arkansas prairie remnants presented in meeting of Fayetteville Natural Heritage Association

Short takes on Cox 218 and AT&T channel 99 something for today through the weekend

Park board hears comments on value of preserving soil and native plants on proposed construction site on Rochier Hill west of Pinnacle Prairie and World Peace Wetland Prairie

December 20, 2011, meeting of Fayetteville AR city council draws comment on several important local issues on a 3-hour, 37-minute video

Aubrey James Shepherd wears 2011 Louisiana Tech WAC Tshirt on first part and 2001 WAC La Tech shirt on second part of Fayetteville public-television video

Please click on individual images beneath the video file to enlarge view of wet-prairie and tree-protection area slated to become construction site.

More than 100 photos of mounded wet prairie parcel proposed as site for convention center on north side of Holiday Inn Express available on Flickr near bottom of urban infill set. A sample of the photos appears below the meeting video. Discussion of the site occurs near the end of the meeting. A slide bar at the bottom of the video allows a person skip over discussion of other subjects.

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View east shows tiny wooded-wetland tree-protection area on low corner of several acres of  remnant of mounded wet prairie.

Mowing vegetation out of swale that carries water north to a creek unnecessary and harmful.

Healthy habitat important especially where it also protects watershed

Existing tree-protection area is best place for natural swale and sheet-flow surface water to soak in.

Ditch and pipe from existing Holiday Inn Express parking lot exemplies outmoded  high-impact water management

Existing stormwater pipe causes erosion of big ditch that sends dangerous flow to swale along road toward creek, increasing erosion and flooding of downtream property.

Natural swale through wet prairie takes water to low, wooded wetland at NW corner of property

Park Board approves accepting money in lieu of land that will result in destruction of all habitat on Hollywood Prairie despite plea to preserve bit of wetland