Tempe, Cooks River
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Looking across the Cooks River to the Tempe Recreation Reserve and the
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Zinc Dam, shown here, retains water North of the Pedestrian Bridge to fill the river bank to bank. Downstream it becomes the Arkansas Sandbar during the dry season.
At the end of the walk is a memorial to Carl Linnaeus, (1707-1778) a brilliant Swedish naturalist and educator who considered all of nature his classroom. Like a botanical prophet, he led students on long excursions through woods and countryside, reeling off colorful anecdotes and observations on plants, insects and vertebrates.