Harrison Daily Times Warning: hogs worse than smell; Hammerschmidt pushed to protect Buffalo National River Posted: Thursday, October 31, 2013 1:45 amnn By DWAIN LAIR [email protected] Retired Congressman John Paul Hammerschmidt encouraged a group of about 50 people Tuesday night to press on and spread the word that the […]
Publication:Arkansas Democrat-Gazette; Date:Oct 22, 2013; Section:Arkansas; Page Number:7 New take on water repealedLaw said to clash with federal actRYAN MCGEENEY ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE After months of revising existing water regulations to comply with new state water-quality standards, staff members at the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality must now revert to the […]
From Arkansas Times (read comments)n http://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2013/10/25/pork-producers-suggest-more-danger-to-buffalo-river-from-people-than-pigs Pork producers suggest more danger to Buffalo River from people than pigsPosted by Max Brantley on Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 1:35 PM CAUTION: People use the Buffalo River and they’re more damaging than pigs, the Arkansas Pork Producers say. The campaign against a […]
Buffalo River group fears large operation is just the first7-city lecture tour targets hog farm By Ryan McGeeney The Buffalo River Watershed Alliance is sponsoring a seven-city tour to spread the message that large-scale farming operations rarely show up alone. Elva Kelly, a board member and spokesman for the Buffalo […]
http://www.nwaonline.com/news/2013/oct/19/alliance-warns-and-informs-20131019/ Alliance warns and informsBy Mike Masterson The Buffalo River Watershed Alliance is sounding an alarm to warn of the potential storm of hog factories approaching Arkansas. The nonprofit group’s forewarning comes in the form of a seven-city educational tour of public meetings it’s sponsoring beginning next Friday in Fayetteville […]
“The Buffalo Flows” an excellent documentary produced by the University of Arkansas about the Buffalo National River, will be shown on Saturdays at 1 p.m. through Thanksgiving weekend at the Buffalo Theater in Jasper. No one can see as much of the river in a canoe, as you will see on our […]
One river’s purity What about Buffalo? By Mike Mastersonnn The multinational food giant Cargill Inc. of Minnesota was generous enough to donate $50,000 toward promoting better understanding of water-quality issues and improving water quality in the Illinois River of Northwest Arkansas. Yet it has provided nothing to help geoscientist John […]
http://www.nwaonline.com/news/2013/oct/04/hog-farm-tests-start-2014-20131004/ Hog-farm tests to start in 2014 Leader: UA role is research By Ryan McGeeney Posted: October 4, 2013 at 2:28 a.m. FAYETTEVILLE – Soil and water testing in the areas surrounding a hog farm in Newton County will begin in late winter or early spring of 2014, a University of […]
Hogs, karst and the Buffalo By Mike Masterson Arkansas geoscientist John Van Brahana plans on taking to the pulpit tonight in Fayetteville. His sermon (of sorts) about being stewards who supposedly protect God’s Country begins promptly at 7. He’ll be disclosing and discussing the early results of water-quality testing that […]