Last Impediment to Natural Campus Entrance Falls

The last of the old unusable structures on the south side of UALR’s campus came down this week and grass began sprouting on the banks of Coleman Creek. The changes in the landscape are the first few phases of the Coleman Creek Greenway project, the long-term plan to make the creek a focal point of campus. In this initial phase of the project, UALR, in partnership with Audubon Arkansas, the Chamberlin Family Foundation, and FTN Associates, took down five unusable buildings on the southeastern border of the campus. According to Robert Shults, member of the board of Audubon Arkansas, “the restoration of Coleman Creek is the single most important conservation project undertaken thus far in the Fourche Creek watershed.”