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Author: Neil Compton Publisher: University of Arkansas Press ISBN: 1557289352 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 502
Book Description
Under the auspices of the 1938 Flood Control Act, the U.S. Corps of Engineers began to pursue an aggressive dam-building campaign. A grateful public generally lauded their efforts, but when they turned their attention to Arkansas’s Buffalo River, the vocal opposition their proposed projects generated dumbfounded them. Never before had anyone challenged the Corps’s assumption that damming a river was an improvement. Led by Neil Compton, a physician in Bentonville, Arkansas, a group of area conservationists formed the Ozark Society to join the battle for the Buffalo. This book is the account of this decade-long struggle that drew in such political figures as supreme court justice William O. Douglas, Senator J. William Fulbright, and Governor Orval Faubus. The battle finally ended in 1972 with President Richard Nixon’s designation of the Buffalo as the first national river. Drawing on hundreds of personal letters, photographs, maps, newspaper articles, and reminiscences, Compton’s lively book details the trials, gains, setbacks, and ultimate triumph in one of the first major skirmishes between environmentalists and developers.
Author: Neil Compton Publisher: University of Arkansas Press ISBN: 1557289352 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 502
Book Description
Under the auspices of the 1938 Flood Control Act, the U.S. Corps of Engineers began to pursue an aggressive dam-building campaign. A grateful public generally lauded their efforts, but when they turned their attention to Arkansas’s Buffalo River, the vocal opposition their proposed projects generated dumbfounded them. Never before had anyone challenged the Corps’s assumption that damming a river was an improvement. Led by Neil Compton, a physician in Bentonville, Arkansas, a group of area conservationists formed the Ozark Society to join the battle for the Buffalo. This book is the account of this decade-long struggle that drew in such political figures as supreme court justice William O. Douglas, Senator J. William Fulbright, and Governor Orval Faubus. The battle finally ended in 1972 with President Richard Nixon’s designation of the Buffalo as the first national river. Drawing on hundreds of personal letters, photographs, maps, newspaper articles, and reminiscences, Compton’s lively book details the trials, gains, setbacks, and ultimate triumph in one of the first major skirmishes between environmentalists and developers.
Author: Kenneth L. Smith Publisher: University of Arkansas Press ISBN: 9780912456232 Category : Travel Languages : en Pages : 454
Book Description
Ken Smith's life-long accumulation of knowledge about the Buffalo River country, including complete trail and river guides and a fascinating sourcebook for geology and history of the Buffalo river area. All in a compact size, with more than 170 photos, maps, and diagrams. Coordinated with National Geographic Maps, Trails Illustrated. Ken Smith is the author-photographer of The Buffalo River Country, the Ozark Society Foundation classic now in its ninth printing.
Author: Kenneth L. Smith Publisher: University of Arkansas Press ISBN: 9780912456027 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 188
Book Description
This best-selling book is a timeless narrative of floating the Buffalo National River and roaming its hinterlands, all the while reflecting on its scenery, geology, flora, fauna, history, and archaeology.
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Parks and Recreation Publisher: ISBN: Category : Buffalo National River (Ark.) Languages : en Pages : 214
Book Description
Considers S. 855, to establish the Buffalo National River, Arkansas.
Author: Neil Compton
Author: Neil Compton
Author: Kenneth L. Smith
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Author: Kenneth L. Smith
Author: United States. National Park Service
Author: Tim Ernst
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Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Parks and Recreation
Author: Dwight T. Pitcaithley
Author: United States. National Park Service