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Apply for our Graduate Certificate program.
Now accepting applications.
OUR MISSION
To prepare young resource professionals with the applied skills and knowledge necessary to ensure healthy wetlands and waterfowl populations into the future.
OUR PROGRAM
Our program is a 2 semester/18 credit graduate certificate through the University of Arkansas - Monticello. Students live on Five Oaks property and are immersed in wetland management.
TO APPLY
Please send your resume, a cover letter describing your experience and interest in our program, and unofficial transcripts to raskren@5-oaks.com by than February 28.
USDA Conservation Innovation Grant Wrap-up | Ecosystem Protection Services
A short discussion on the results of an Ecosystem Protection Services project developing set-aside practices that benefit waterfowl, the environment, and producers. Practices include leaving feels fallow and promoting native vegetation, setting fields out of production and growing small grains, and planting small grains behind row crops to improve soil health and provide food for waterfowl. This project demonstrated interest by local producers to engage in such practices and provides justification for incentivizing set-aside in NRCS programs.
The Mississippi Flyway
Five Oaks is in the heart of the Mississippi Flyway, which starts in central Canada and stretches to the Gulf of Mexico. The Mississippi Flyway is the name given to the route followed by ducks migrating from their breeding grounds in North America to their wintering grounds in the South. As the name suggests, the Mississippi Flyway follows the route of the Mississippi River in the United States – North America’s largest river system. Originating in northern Minnesota, the slow-flowing river travels southwards for a distance of 2,530 miles, cutting through, or forming a border for, the states of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, and Louisiana before emptying into the Mississippi River Delta at the Gulf of Mexico. In most years, Arkansas winters more mallards than any other place in North America, and a whole lot of them return year after year to Five Oaks.