Title The battle for the Buffalo River : a twentieth-century conservation crisis in the Ozarks / Neil Compton

Published Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press, 1992

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 481 pages) : illustrations Summary 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 Arkansass Buffalo River, the vocal opposition their proposed projects generated dumbfounded them. Never before had anyone challenged the Corps 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 Nixons designation of the Buffalo as the first national river. Drawing on hundreds of personal letters, photographs, maps, newspaper articles, and reminiscences, Comptons lively book details the trials, gains, setbacks, and ultimate triumph in one of the first major skirmishes between environmentalists and developers Notes Includes index Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Print version record Subject Nature conservation -- Political aspects -- Arkansas -- Buffalo River BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Real Estate -- General. NATURE -- General. Nature conservation -- Political aspects Naturschutz Umweltpolitik Geschichte SUBJECT Buffalo River (Ark.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85017640 Subject Arkansas -- Buffalo River Buffalo River, Ark. Form Electronic book LC no. 91027540 ISBN 9781610750585 1610750586 9781610754880 1610754883

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