Elbert Luther Little, Jr. (born October 15, 1907, in

Fort Smith, Arkansas Fort Smith is the third-largest city in Arkansas and one of the two county seats of Sebastian County. As of the 2020 Census, the population was 89,142. It is the principal city of the Fort Smith, Arkansas–Oklahoma Metropolitan Statistical Are ...

; died June 23, 2004) was an American botanist whose career spanned 70 years and largely concerned forest botany. Although he was born in Arkansas, and died in Oregon, he grew up in

Muskogee, Oklahoma Muskogee () is the thirteenth-largest city in Oklahoma and the county seat of Muskogee County. Home to Bacone College, it lies approximately southeast of Tulsa. The population of the city was 36,878 as of the 2020 census, a 6.0 percent decrease ...

from the age of two and spent much of his life in

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. Little served as Chief Dendrologist for the

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from 1967 to 1975 and was the author of the

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's ''Field Guide to Trees'' (1980). In life he was honored by the Oklahoma Forestry Association and the Oklahoma Academy of Science.

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People from Fort Smith, Arkansas People from Muskogee, Oklahoma 1907 births 2004 deaths American botanists Dendrologists {{US-botanist-stub