Arkansas Water Webinar/Floodplain Restoration & CommuniTree Program: Arkansas Water Resources Center
September 11, 2026
By:
Walter G. Wright
Category:
Arkansas Environmental, Energy, and Water Law
Arkansas Environmental, Energy, and Water Law
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The Arkansas Water Resources Center (“AWRC”) announced an Arkansas Water Webinar titled:
Floodplain Restoration & CommuniTree Program (“Webinar”).
The Webinar will be held on Thursday, September 17th from 12 – 1 p.m. (Central).
AWRC describes the Arkansas CommuniTree Project (“Project”) as the first community supported tree bank in Arkansas. Activities are noted to include:
- Partners are working together to grow high-quality potted trees from bare root seedlings.
- 'Communitrees' are then donated to reforestation projects around the state focused on stream and lake side corridors or forested riparian buffers.
Three of Arkansas’ largest water utilities are stated to be partnering to provide grow sites for seedlings.
The Webinar is intended to provide information regarding how water utilities are using these activities to meet their source water protection goals and how these trees are contributing to exciting projects around the state.
Speakers include:
- Joy Wasson, Arkansas Forests and Drinking Water Collaborative
- Chandler Barton, Arkansas Department of Agriculture Division of Forestry
- Daniel Hagood, Beaver Watershed Alliance
- Ben Thesing, Central Arkansas Water
- Matt Rich, Beaver Water District
A copy of the AWRC flyer which includes registration information can be found here.
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