Callahan said several trucking companies, including one in Kentucky, have reached out to College of the Ouachitas about partnerships.
College of the Ouachitas already has a tractor that Callahan said will allow the training program to be used statewide.
A large database (Matthews and Robison, 1988; Robison and Buchanan, 1988) on stream fishes at sites in the Ozark and Ouachita uplands in Arkansas was used in the present paper to test three macroecological hypotheses about distributions of fish species in these streams: (1) faunal similarities among upland fiver basins are congruent with the geographical connectivities, or linkages, of those streams in the Mississippi River Basin; (2) faunal richness of streams up to the size of small rivers increases with drainage area; and (3) local (within-site) richness of fish species increases in proportion to regional (basin) richness.
The Interior Highland of North America, consisting of the Ozark and Ouachita mountains of Arkansas, Oklahoma, Missouri and Kansas, was an ancient, continuous upland that persisted west of the Mississippi River until it was bisected by headwater erosion of the Arkansas River (Mayden, 1985; Robison, 1986).
He wasn't digging for gold or silver in the Ouachita Mountains near this small western Arkansas community, although it was obvious from his enthusiasm that he was hunting treasure.
We knew there was at least one cub in the den, because when we were in the area earlier we could hear a cub crying,'' said Randall Bullington, a commission biologist based in the Ouachita Mountains.
Before coming to the College of the Ouachitas, Schoonmaker worked at Clatsop Community College in Astoria, Ore.
That's forefront on my agenda for the College of the Ouachitas," he said.
The College of the
Ouachitas will work with any business or industry to establish credit bearing classes.
The presence of a gas-fired power plant, as well as a hydroelectric generating station at Remmel Dam on the
Ouachita River, makes Malvern a prime location for industry requiring a heavy electrical supply.
New Job:
Ouachita Technical College became the College of the
Ouachitas on July 1 through Act 208 of the 88th Arkansas General Assembly.
Organized biking tours are available in the Ozarks and
Ouachitas for cyclists and mountain bikers.
