Most mornings I climb the hill out behind the house. It is a broad-shouldered common-looking hill that is unnamed and of no particular significance, and it is passed many times each day by people ...

Regnat populus. It's Latin for "the people rule." What does it mean? If you follow Arkansas politics, you know that our motto is invoked frequently. I've even seen it on bumper stickers around town.

It includes sugar maple (Acer saccharum), black birch (Betula lenta), red oak, quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides), swamp white oak (Quercus bicolor), burr oak (Quercus macrocarpa), and American ...