Planning Grant for the George Harp Environmental Field Station

阿肯色州立大学授予规划补助金，用于制定战略计划，以加强和管理新收购的布法罗国家河上的乔治·哈普环境野外站，布法罗国家河是美国第一条国家河流。该野外站由亚利桑那州立大学根据与国家公园管理局的合作协议管理，为支持阿肯色州奥扎克地区的高地、湿地、洞穴和河流研究提供了独特的机会。计划举办三个研讨会，包括州立和地区大学研究人员、当地K-12教师和管理人员、保护非政府组织以及阿肯色州两年制学院的教职员工和管理人员。这些讲习班旨在提高认识并征求利益攸关方的意见，将为空间站的发展提供方向、重点和支持。此外，参观三个地区大学野外站将允许征求关于空间站发展、增强和确定研究、教学、资金和外展机会的想法、见解和方向。George Harp环境野外站是一座房屋和几个附属建筑，占地40英亩，战略上位于150英尺高的悬崖上，俯瞰阿肯色州矿业鬼城拉什附近的布法罗国家河下游。布法罗国家河发源于波士顿山峰，流经奥扎克高地的中心地带，全长150英里，占地80万英亩，是全国最大的自由流动河流之一--S。布法罗流经复杂的地形汇聚区域，斯普林菲尔德和塞勒姆高原，流经北美中部唯一的未冰川高地地区，在那里它与怀特河汇合。东部和西部稀树大草原、沼泽和林地交错带提供了独特的栖息地，与著名的地质古迹结合在一起；创造了一种支持高度生物多样性和地方性的景观，该地区记录了200多种特有物种。

Arkansas State University awarded a planning grant for the development of a strategic plan for enhancing and managing the newly acquired George Harp Environmental Field Station on the Buffalo National River, America's first national river. The field station, administered by ASU under a cooperative agreement with the National Park Service, provides a unique opportunity to support upland, wetland, speleological and riverine research in the Arkansas Ozarks. Three workshops are planned to include state and regional university researchers, local K-12 teachers and administrators, conservation NGOs, and faculty and administrators of Arkansas 2-year colleges. These workshops, designed to raise awareness and solicit ideas from stakeholders, will provide direction, emphases and support for the development of the Station. Additionally, visits to three regional university field stations will allow solicitation of ideas, insights and direction for Station development, enhancement, and identification of research, teaching, funding and outreach opportunities.The George Harp Environmental Field Station is a house and several outbuildings on 40 acres of land strategically located on a 150-foot bluff overlooking the lower Buffalo National River near the mining ghost town of Rush, Arkansas. The Buffalo National River, encompassing an 800,000 acre watershed, originates in the Boston Mountain peaks and flows 150 miles through the heartland of the Ozark Highlands, where it is considered one of the nation?s most prodigious free flowing rivers. Moving through a complex convergence of physiographic regions, the Springfield and Salem Plateaus, the Buffalo flows through the only unglaciated highland region in mid-continental North America, where it confluences with the White River. The union of eastern and western savanna, glade and woodland ecotones provides a unique integration of habitats, coalesced with renowned geologic antiquity; creating a landscape supporting a high level of biodiversity and endemism, with more than 200 endemic species documented from the region.