Defending the Buffalo A long section of the Buffalo River got so foul this summer the park officials had to tell people not to swim in it. The river heads up in a wilderness area and flows into the park clear and clean, but midway through the park, it becomes […]

https://www.nwaonline.com/news/2018/nov/30/nwa-editorial-protection-first-20181130/ NWA EDITORIAL: Protection firstBuffalo River findings reflect need for urgency by NWA Democrat-Gazette  From the moment Arkansas’ Department of Environmental Quality granted in 2012 a permit for the operation of a large-scale hog farm near a tributary of the first national river in the nation, the National Park Service […]