Arkansas Times This week: A fight over hog waste in the Buffalo River watershed by Max Brantley November 14, 2016 Coming this week: A Pollution Control and Ecology Commission hearing Wednesday morning on the appeal of state approval of a modified permit for a farm to spread waste from the C and H hog […]
EPA favors some state water quality rules, not others By Emily Walkenhorst Posted: November 13, 2016 at 3:02 a.m. NWAOnline The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has approved of and disapproved of parts of the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality’s water quality regulations nearly three years after the state submitted the regulations […]
Arkanasonline More algae seen on Buffalo River Sampling IDs several types By Emily Walkenhorst The National Park Service has collected two samples of algae at the Buffalo National River that appear to indicate more types of algae in the river than previous sampling by another federal agency revealed. In September, after […]
Arkansasonline Poultry farms split neighbors Plans for 1,000 houses raise concern for area’s watershed By Stephen Steed Posted: November 6, 2016 at 1:28 a.m. EVENING SHADE — Tempers flared Tuesday night in Evening Shade, putting the Sharp County town of 432 at odds with the largely idyllic setting of the television […]
Fran Alexander: What we eat Healthy eating means knowing where it comes from By Fran Alexander Posted: November 1, 2016 at 1 a.m. NWAOnline Most of us have heard, “You are what you eat.” As advice to eat right to grow strong or as an admonishment for eating junk, the phrase […]
MIKE MASTERSON: Gentlemen’s agreement Farms or habitat By Mike Masterson Posted: November 1, 2016 at 5:45 a.m. NWAOnline Months before a University of Arkansas agriculture professor was appointed head of the Big Creek Research and Extension Team formed to monitor waste from a hog factory in the Buffalo National River watershed, […]
Duo’s ‘Still a River” CD all about Buffalo By Flip Putthoff Posted: October 25, 2016 at 1 a.m. NWAOnline Most paddlers who’ve gazed at the majesty of the Buffalo National River are thankful that it’s still a river, free of the dams that were planned years ago. So what better title […]
New York Times North Carolina’s Noxious Pig Farms By THE EDITORIAL BOARD OCT. 25, 2016 The landscape of eastern North Carolina is dotted with giant pools of bright pink sludge. These are waste lagoons, where industrial farms across the state dispose of billions of gallons of untreated pig urine and feces every year. The […]
Politico Feds hit brakes on loans to big farms By CATHERINE BOUDREAU nn 10/24/2016 The Obama administration is slow-walking the credit it gives to large dairy and livestock farms out of fear that it could get slapped with another big environmental lawsuit, POLITICO has learned. Big farms in the South, Midwest […]
http://www.politico.com/tipsheets/morning-agriculture/2016/10/cafo-limbo-over-loan-approval-slowdown-216968 Slow loans over green woes put CAFOs in limbo By Catherine Boudreau 10/20/2016 05:00 AM EDT The Obama administration is slow-walking the credit it gives to large dairy and livestock farms out of fear that it could get slapped with another big environmental lawsuit, POLITICO has learned. Big farms […]
Mother Jones Magazine You Don’t Want to Know Where This Pig Poop Is Washing Up The floods from Hurricane Matthew are finally receding, but the battle over manure leaked from hog farms is just getting started. TOM PHILPOTT Use link above to read article with photos
NWAOnline Governor appoints panel to promote river’s health By Brenda Blagg Posted: October 5, 2016 at 1 a.m. If you think of the Buffalo National River, the image of soaring bluffs rising over free-flowing, pristine water immediately comes to mind. That’s been the case for generations in these Ozark Mountains where […]
NWAOnline In 3Q, pigs biggest loser in commodities By Lydia Mulvany and Jen Skerritt Bloomberg New Posted: October 4, 2016 at 2:05 a.m. Ham, bacon, ribs, pork loins — if it has to do with pigs, prices are in the doldrums. Hog futures were the worst investment in commodities recently […]
Another committee Beautiful Buffalo By Mike Masterson It would be wrong not to commend Gov. Asa Hutchinson for his new plan whereby five state agencies comprising the “Beautiful Buffalo River Action Committee” will create a watershed management plan to help Arkansas secure funding for conservation projects within the environmentally fragile Buffalo […]
NWAOnline Panel will develop Buffalo River plan Watershed protection funds sought By Emily Walkenhorst Posted: October 1, 2016 at 3:35 a.m.Updated: October 1, 2016 at 3:35 a.m. Five state agencies will participate in the creation of a watershed management plan for the Buffalo National River with a goal of helping the […]
Arkansas Times Gov. Hutchinson announces a Buffalo River committee UPDATE Posted By Max Brantley on Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 10:26 AM Gov. Asa Hutchinson called in press this morning to announce an interagency “action committee” to share information about the Buffalo River. He was joined by heads of five state departments of Environmental Quality, Health, Agriculture, […]
KUAF Public Radio Buffalo River Grandmothers Appeal Industrial Swine Waste Permit by Jacqueline Froelich September 28, 2016 Three grandmothers are appealing a new wastewater permit issued by the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality for a controversial industrial swine breeding facility on the Buffalo National River Watershed. Listen here
State-hired contractor completes testing for manure leaks at hog farm By Emily Walkenhorst NWAOnline State contractors have wrapped up their drilling project to test for hog manure leakage at C&H Hog Farms near the Buffalo National River, Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality spokesman Kelly Robinson said Tuesday. Harbor Environmental of Little […]
Eureka Springs Independent Independent Guestatorial: Wake up calls and tipping points September 28, 2016 What does it take to get our attention in this cluttered world? Usually it’s something that hits close to home, such as outsized transmission lines proposing to march across our Ozark landscape like a scar. More […]
Arkansasonline Health of our watersThe grades are inBy Mike Masterson If you didn’t visit the Buffalo River Watershed Alliance website last week and see the enormous infestation of algae blooming along a section of the country’s first national river, the pictures are still there as proof of the muck stretching […]