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Sunday, April 18, 2010
Friday, April 16, 2010
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Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Importance of places like WPWP: Geography and geology of Northwest Arkansas must be considered before any more developments are proposed for Northwest Arkansas
World Peace Wetland Prairie is the riparian zone of a small stream that historically was fed by seep springs and rainwater from three directions when the first westward immigrants settled Fayetteville, Arkansas. World Peace Wetland Prairie has the deepest layer of dark, rich soil in its subwatershed because leaves and other vegetative matter accumulated as the flowing water slowed and soaked into the absorbent soil and enriched that soil. Pinnacle Foods Inc.'s mounded wet prairie to the west is the main source of clean water flowing to World Peace Wetland Prairie at this time. Before the railroad was built, water flowed off Rochier Hill to the northwest and from the prairie and savannah to the north of WPWP that has been replaced by fill dirt and paving for apartments. Water from the east and north slopes of the high land where Pinnacle Foods Inc. now sits flowed to WPWP along with all the water from the high ground near 15th Street, which moved north to WPWP before flowing east to the Town Branch of the West Fork of the White River. Such remnants of prairie help keep the water where it falls and recharge the groundwater. Like the many similar remnants of such prairie in our diverse geographical area, WPWP and Pinnacle Prairie are the surface manifestation of a significant bedrock fault. Such sunken wetland is a characteristic feature that appears above geological faults worldwide. The Karst map of Washington County Arkansas shows the WPWP watershed in red, meaning that it is a critical groundwater recharge area. Preserving such depressional wetland in our city is the least expensive way to reduce downstream flooding and siltation of our water supply. Hundreds of native plants grow. Many birds and other wildlife prosper on healthy wetland vegetation. And prairie vegetation sequesters carbon dioxide and cleans the ground water.
Sunday, April 11, 2010
Caring for Creation sets third-annual conference for April 16-18, 2010; all participants invited to come to World Peace Wetland Prairie for Earth Day celebration after Sunday lunch
Please come to Earth Day Celebration at World Peace Wetland Prairie immediately after lunch on Sunday, April 18, and attend as much of the Caring for Creation convention as you can. It was a wonderful program last year and may be even better this week. For information about WPWP Earth Day, please visit the following site: Earth Day at World Peace
Please double-click images to ENLARGE to view closeups of the details of three different fruit trees on bloom on World Peace Wetland Prairie on April 10, 2010. CARING FOR CREATION SCHEDULE
Thursday, April 15
4:00 - 7:00 pm
Early registration & check-in
5:30 Dinner
Friday, April 16
7:30 Breakfast
8:15 am -3:30 pm
Registration & check-in
Early Bird Opportunities
12:00 Lunch
3:00 - 4:00 pm Plenary
Rev. Pat Watkins
5:30 Dinner
7:00 pm - Keynote Speaker
Rev. Canon Sally G. Bingham
The Regeneration Project
Saturday, April 17
7:30 Breakfast
8:45 am Opening
9:00 am Workshops I
10:30 am - Plenary
Dr. Jay McDaniel &
Youth Panel
12:00 Lunch
1:15 Workshops II
2:45 Workshops III
5:30 Dinner
7:00 pm - Plenary
John Hill, General Board of
Church and Society
Sunday, April 18
7:30 Breakfast
9:00 am Round Table:
”The Urgency of Now”
“Dr. Mark Davies
10:30 am Closing Worship
12:00 Lunch & Goodbyes
CARING FOR CREATION CONFERENCE
April 15-18, 2010
Mount Sequoyah Conference and Retreat Center
Fayetteville, Arkansas
Deut. 10:14: "To the LORD your God belong the heavens, even the highest heavens, the
earth and everything in it."
Mount Sequoyah Conference and Retreat Center
150 NW Skyline Drive Fayetteville, Arkansas 72701
www.mountsequoyah.org programs@mountsequoyah.org
Keynote Address
Rev. Canon Sally G. Bingham
President & Founder, The Regeneration Project
The Reverend Canon Sally Grover Bingham, a priest and Canon for the
Environment in the Diocese of California has been active in the environ-
mental community for twenty-five years. She is also founder and president
of The Regeneration Project, which is focused on its Interfaith Power and
Light (IPL) campaign, a religious response to global warming. The IPL
campaign includes a national network of over 10,000 congregations with
affiliated programs in 29 states.
Workshop Topics
Alternative & Renewable Energy Solutions
Biblical Basis for Creation Care
Creating Your Green Team: A Model for Action
Creation Care in Children’s Ministry
Creation in Worship
Food Insecurity
Growing Your Church with Youth Green Engagement
Partnering with Community (city, local & state officials)
Practice of Political Advocacy
Stream Teams: 70,000 Strong
Sustainability Ethics: Discovering the Holiness of Place
For more details go to www.mountsequoyah.org or call 800-760-8126.
John Hill
General Board of Church &
Society of the United
Methodist Church
Rev. Pat Watkins
Executive Director of
Caretakers of God’s
Creation
Dr. Jay McDaniel
Professor of Religion
Department Chair
Director, Steel Center for
the Study of Religion &
Philosophy
Hendrix College
Plenary Speakers
Saturday, April 10, 2010
Backside of banner prepared for Earth Day at World Peace Wetland Prairie shows people enjoying previous years at the event plus some aerial maps and information about the critical importance of wetland to the watershed and significant points about its geological and hydrological circumstances
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For more about World Peace Wetland Prairie please see
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Friday, April 9, 2010
Poster with items you will likely not see on April 18 during Earth Day celebration at World Peace Wetland Prairie but see later during the growing season: Please come between 1 and 5 p.m. Sunday, April 18, to see the land beginning to green up and come back later for nature's big show
Please click on image to ENLARGE for closer view of sample photos from WPWP.
PLEASE double-click the image to ENLARGE view and ENLARGE further with your computer's tools to read small type.
For more about World Peace Wetland Prairie please see
www.flickr.com/photos/7295307@N02/collections/
www.flickr.com/photos/7295307@N02/collections/
World Peace Wetland Prairie is the riparian zone of a small stream that historically was fed by seep springs and rainwater from three directions when the first westward immigrants settled Fayetteville, Arkansas. World Peace Wetland Prairie has the deepest layer of dark, rich soil in its subwatershed because leaves and other vegetative matter accumulated as the flowing water slowed and soaked into the absorbent soil and enriched that soil. Pinnacle Foods Inc.'s mounded wet prairie to the west is the main source of clean water flowing to World Peace Wetland Prairie at this time. Before the railroad was built, water flowed off Rochier Hill to the northwest and from the prairie and savannah to the north of WPWP that has been replaced by fill dirt and paving for apartments. Water from the east and north slopes of the high land where Pinnacle Foods Inc. now sits flowed to WPWP along with all the water from the high ground near 15th Street, which moved north to WPWP before flowing east to the Town Branch of the West Fork of the White River. Such remnants of prairie help keep the water where it falls and recharge the groundwater. Like the many similar remnants of such prairie in our diverse geographical area, WPWP and Pinnacle Prairie are the surface manifestation of a significant bedrock fault. Such sunken wetland is a characteristic feature that appears above geological faults worldwide. The Karst map of Washington County Arkansas shows the WPWP watershed in red, meaning that it is a critical groundwater recharge area. Preserving such depressional wetland in our city is the least expensive way to reduce downstream flooding and siltation of our water supply. Hundreds of native plants grow. Many birds and other wildlife prosper on healthy wetland vegetation. And prairie vegetation sequesters carbon dioxide and cleans the ground water.
PLEASE double-click the image to ENLARGE view and ENLARGE further with your computer's tools to read small type.
For more about World Peace Wetland Prairie please see
www.flickr.com/photos/7295307@N02/collections/
www.flickr.com/photos/7295307@N02/collections/
PLEASE double-click the image to ENLARGE view and ENLARGE further with your computer's tools to read small type.
World Peace Wetland Prairie is the riparian zone of a small stream that historically was fed by seep springs and rainwater from three directions when the first westward immigrants settled Fayetteville, Arkansas. World Peace Wetland Prairie has the deepest layer of dark, rich soil in its subwatershed because leaves and other vegetative matter accumulated as the flowing water slowed and soaked into the absorbent soil and enriched that soil. Pinnacle Foods Inc.'s mounded wet prairie to the west is the main source of clean water flowing to World Peace Wetland Prairie at this time. Before the railroad was built, water flowed off Rochier Hill to the northwest and from the prairie and savannah to the north of WPWP that has been replaced by fill dirt and paving for apartments. Water from the east and north slopes of the high land where Pinnacle Foods Inc. now sits flowed to WPWP along with all the water from the high ground near 15th Street, which moved north to WPWP before flowing east to the Town Branch of the West Fork of the White River. Such remnants of prairie help keep the water where it falls and recharge the groundwater. Like the many similar remnants of such prairie in our diverse geographical area, WPWP and Pinnacle Prairie are the surface manifestation of a significant bedrock fault. Such sunken wetland is a characteristic feature that appears above geological faults worldwide. The Karst map of Washington County Arkansas shows the WPWP watershed in red, meaning that it is a critical groundwater recharge area. Preserving such depressional wetland in our city is the least expensive way to reduce downstream flooding and siltation of our water supply. Hundreds of native plants grow. Many birds and other wildlife prosper on healthy wetland vegetation. And prairie vegetation sequesters carbon dioxide and cleans the ground water.
Sunday, April 4, 2010
If you don't recognize this as a tulip, check with Cindi Cope about how many varieties of tulips she has distributed in Fayetteville this year
Please click on image to ENLARGE view of tulip provided by Fayetteville, Arkansas, America in Bloom for public places.
Saturday, April 3, 2010
UA students spend four hours on World Peace Wetland Prairie clipping Japanese honeysuckle vines off trees and trimming back Rosa Arkansana, and blackberry vines plus maybe a few greenbriers
Bad nonnative plant: Japanese honeysuckle one of America's most invasive nonnative species whose damage to native plants outweighs its value for wildlife food and habitat. Not so long ago, the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission sanctioned planting Japonica for deer food. Goats love it too.
Good native Plant: Native honeysuckle rates high with home-gardeners, nature lovers, hummingbirds and pollinating insects.
Good Native Plant: Rosa Arkansana the state flower of several states
Good Plant: The Peace Bee Farmer cultivates blackberries for wildlife habitat and food but mostly because the pollinator most essential to food crops is the honeybee which greatly benefits from blackberry flowers' nectar
www.fcps.edu/islandcreekes/ecology/greenbrier.htm
Good Native Plant: Greenbrier aka Smilax rotundifolia
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Good native Plant: Native honeysuckle rates high with home-gardeners, nature lovers, hummingbirds and pollinating insects.
Good Native Plant: Rosa Arkansana the state flower of several states
Good Plant: The Peace Bee Farmer cultivates blackberries for wildlife habitat and food but mostly because the pollinator most essential to food crops is the honeybee which greatly benefits from blackberry flowers' nectar
www.fcps.edu/islandcreekes/ecology/greenbrier.htm
Good Native Plant: Greenbrier aka Smilax rotundifolia
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Thursday, April 1, 2010
Old Website details some of the documentation of native vegetation found at that time on the land
Please click on images to view various categories on 2003 Web site detailing background of land that is now known as World Peace Wetland Prairie in south Fayetteville, Arkansas.
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