Panel looks at pig-farm ban Plan to extend permit freeze as legislators review rulesBy Ryan McGeeney   Members of Arkansas’ environmental rule-making body will consider next week whether to extend a six-month ban on certain concentrated animal feeding operations near the Buffalo National River. The announcement came on the same day that […]

Prescience revisited 30 years ago, wilderness protectedBy Ed Bethune Special to the Democrat-Gazette  There are two types of wilderness. One is in our minds. This inner wilderness–a place of testing–is as old as Moses and we have all been there, for a variety of reasons. Lately, however, we are driven to this […]