The Charlotte Smith Revocable Trust and D&M Smith, LLC (Smith Trust) is a 191-acre forested property on Crowley’s Ridge adjacent to the St. Francis National Forest in Lee County, Arkansas.
The property is within Crowley’s Ridge, one of Arkansas’s six distinct ecoregions. Crowley’s Ridge, named after the early settler Benjamin Crowley, is the smallest ecoregion in Arkansas. The ridge is about 200 miles long and ranges from only about 0.5 to 12 miles wide. This area was home to the Quapaw Indians.
Lick Creek drains the western part of the property, emptying into the White River and then the Mississippi River. The eastern part of the property is drained by Sugar and Bear creeks; these creeks empty into the St. Francis River, which also empties into the Mississippi River.
The forests of Crowley’s Ridge more closely resemble the yellow poplar and oak forests of the Appalachians in Tennessee than the forests of the adjacent Delta or nearby Ozarks. Forests are predominately oak and hickory, with yellow poplar and American beech being common.
The Christenson brothers owned this property for 35 to 40 years before the Smiths purchased it from their estate in 2003.
Nearly 187 acres of the property are upland hardwoods. About 1 acre of pasture remains on the east boundary of the property.
Several small, permanent wildlife openings on the property are managed for deer and other wildlife species. Wild turkey is an important game bird to the owners and a target of future management.