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4/27/13 Travel and Tourism Week May 4-12n NewtonCountyTimes.comn May 4-12 will be observed as Travel and Tourism Week in Jasper and Newton County by order of a proclamation signed by Jasper Mayor Shane Kilgore and Newton County Judge Warren Campbell. The proclamations were presented to the elected officials for signatures […]

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Locals plan forum, demonstration in opposition to hog farm near the Buffalo River by Dustin Bartholomew, Flyer Staff on April 22, 2013 at 5:17 pm Locals concerned about a hog farm recently permitted to be built along a tributary of the Buffalo National River in Arkansas are planning a demonstration […]

My report on growing resistance to a swine factory farm permitted on the BNRW will air Tuesday, April 23rd at noon on “Ozarks at Large” our daily news hour on KUAF National Public Radio 91.3fm, repeated at 7pm. We hear tape from a regular meeting of the PC&E on the […]

/http://5newsonline.com/2013/04/16/farmers-oppose-pollution-claims-resolution-passes-anyway/ Despite hearing from several angry farmers, the Fayetteville City Council passed a resolution Tuesday night opposing a hog farm aldermen say could pollute the Buffalo River and Fayetteville area.The council voted unanimously to oppose a 6,500-head hog factory farm near Harrison in Newton County. Although the farm is a […]

Not the first conflictBy Mike Masterson During the mid-1980s, a farmer with one or more big financial backers convinced the then-Department of Pollution Control and Ecology (now Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality) to approve a permit that would establish a landfill near the little Ozarks community of Pindall about 20 […]

Stuff I Don’t Understand, 4/9/13Mentally Hogtied, Mike Masterson Another thing I don’t understand is how a map contained in permitting records at the state’s Department of Environmental Quality in connection with C&H Hog farms Inc. in Mount Judea show a field proposed for spraying hog waste comes as close as […]

Fayetteville Council Opposes Hog Farm Near Buffalo River By: KOLR10 News with help from KFSM, Fort Smith, ArkansasUpdated: April 11, 2013 FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — The city council in Fayetteville, Arkansas is weighing in about a large commercial hog farm close to the Buffalo National River. Although the hog operation is […]

Legislation targets farms in watersheds By Ryan McGeeneyThis article was published today at 4:33 a.m. CommentsaAFont SizeShareA bipartisan coalition of Arkansas legislators is trying to curb future permits for large scale, concentrated farming within sensitive watersheds throughout the state. House Bill 2252, if passed into law, would impose a two-year […]

PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEApril 8, 2013 National Parks Conservation Association Calls Permitting Process Flawed for Hog Farm onBuffalo National River TributaryNational Parks Group Urges U.S. Department of Agriculture and Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality to Pull Permit Mt. Judea, Ark. – On March 29th, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s […]

CAFOs for dummies Mike Masterson A war between fact and opinion is waging between the National Park Service and the U.S. Farm Services Agency over the environmental assessment submitted with the loan for that concentrated animal feeding operation on a commercial hog farm in the Buffalo National River watershed near […]

Meanwhile, back at the farm Mike Masterson In the public dispute over protecting and preserving the Buffalo National River watershed, the corporation behind the controversial industrial hog farm approved near Mount Judea in Newton County has been virtually anonymous.According to the environmental assessment report filed with the USDA’s Farm Services […]