Arkansasonline Firm submits closure plans for Arkansas hog farm State to review proposal to remove watershed waste by Emily Walkenhorst An engineering firm has submitted a draft closure plan for C&H Hog Farms to state environmental regulators. The plan would prevent farm owners from placing any remaining hog manure on the […]
Harrison Daily Times State Rep. Keith Slape has questions about watershed conservation grants By JAMES L. WHITE [email protected] State Rep. Keith Slape of Jasper said he is waiting for more information on a plan to offer conservation grants to property owners in the Buffalo National River watershed before he gets […]
Harrison Daily Times Buffalo National River Discovery Center in old junior high? By JAMES L. WHITE [email protected] Oct 5, 2019 The old Harrison School junior high has been vacant for about two years now. Many people wonder what might become of it, but a group met last week to look […]
NWAonline Opinion REX NELSON: Creating a natural state by Rex Nelson In a place that likes to refer to itself as the Natural State, I can think of no more important project right now than the quail restoration efforts that I outline in a story on the cover of today’s Perspective […]
NWAonline NWA EDITORIAL: The money flows Governor, nonprofits collaborate on Buffalo’s future by NWA Democrat-Gazette The astonishing thing, perhaps is that it took until 2019 for an Arkansas governor get around to creating a panel specifically interested in not just protecting the Buffalo National River, but actually devoting money to […]
NWAOnline Buffalo River project panel formsGovernor-made group to choose conservation endeavors by Emily Walkenhorst Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson, using executive powers, created a new state committee Monday that is to select conservation projects within the watershed of the Buffalo National River. Private funds and a planned contribution from Hutchinson’s discretionary funds […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: September 23, 2019 Governor Hutchinson Announces Buffalo River Conservation Committee$2 million in state and private funds going to conservation ngrant programs LITTLE ROCK –– Governor Asa Hutchinson signed Executive Order 19-14 today establishing the Buffalo River Conservation Committee (BRCC) and announced that $2 million in state and private funds will be allocated for […]
Columbia Missourian Large storms pose greatest risk of CAFO runoff, experts say BY XANDER NEGOZIO Storms caused the greatest increase in pollutants from an industrial hog farm in northern Arkansas, a water expert said Tuesday during a talk at MU. Andrew Sharpley, a distinguished professor of soils and water quality […]
Nation of Change Activists follow the money fueling Amazon fires Protesters around the world are singling out the bad actors profiting off deforestation. By Negin Owliaei and Kelsey Hawkins-Johnson – September 11, 2019 While the world watches in horror as fires rage on in the Amazon, activists are shining a […]
NWAonline FRAN ALEXANDER: Not out of the blue Saving of Buffalo River — again — took committed advocates by Fran Alexander “I could not not do something.” — Ginny Masullo, Buffalo River activist Over years of observing the process of participation in our political system by citizens wanting either to change […]
Democrat Gazette Media groups back suit challenging ‘Ag-Gag’ law by Linda Satter | August 14, 2019 The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and seven other media organizations have filed a friend-of-the-court brief in support of a federal lawsuit challenging what animal-welfare groups call the “Arkansas Ag-Gag” law. The lawsuit was […]
MASTERSON ONLINE: Saving our Buffalo Many Arkansas rightfully wondered a year ago if the hog factory our state wrongheadedly permitted into the fragile Buffalo National River watershed in 2012 would forever be spraying millions of gallons of raw waste onto fields along a major tributary of the river flowing six […]
Listen to a 1992 interview with Dr. Neil Compton on KUAF Radio Celebrating the Man Who Helped Save the Buffalo By KYLE KELLAMS • AUG 9, 2019 Tomorrow is Dr. Compton Day in Bentonville, honoring the man who played a central role in saving the Buffalo River. In 1992, Neil Compton talked to us […]
Nwaonline NWA EDITORIAL: A dramatic pausePanel surprises with hesitance to protect Buffaloby NWA Democrat-Gazette Gov. Asa Hutchinson took a strong lead in protecting the Buffalo National River when he worked out a deal that would shutter C&H Hog Farm, that large-scale operation near a tributary to the state’s most important […]
NWAONLINE Arkansas panel backs effort on hog-farm ban; Buffalo watershed is focus of proposed rule by Emily Walkenhorst Environmental regulators are moving forward with a plan that would prevent a farm like C&H Hog Farms from building again in the Buffalo National River’s watershed. The Arkansas Pollution Control and Ecology Commission […]
Arkansas Democrat Gazette Process to ban medium, large hog farms in state’s Buffalo watershed moves forward by Emily Walkenhorst The Arkansas Pollution Control and Ecology Commission has started a rule-making process that would make permanent the ban against medium or large hog farms in the Buffalo National River’s watershed. The proposed […]
Eureka Springs Independent Hog factory settlement ‘was the best that could be hoped for’ By Becky Gillette – July 24, 2019 101 Not everyone was entirely pleased with the recent $6.2 million settlement to buy a conservation easement at C&H Farms where a Confined Animal Feeding Operation (CAFO) near Mount […]
Democrat Gazette Foreigners get large slice of pork aid by Nathan Owens | July 12, 2019 at 1:48 a.m. Some of the world’s largest meat processors have won bids, worth tens of millions of dollars, from a federal program set up last year to help pork farmers stung by the ongoing trade […]
American Rivers LOCAL ACTIVISTS CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE After six years, countless rallies, fundraisers, letter-writing campaigns, lawsuits and legal actions, visits to the capitol, miles of travel to hearings at agencies and the legislature, we finally got the news that the 6500-head hog confined feeding operation (CAFO) impacting the Buffalo […]
Arkansas Democrat Gazette Lien check on track, Arkansas governor tells panel; search a condition of hog-farm buyout by John Moritz Gov. Asa Hutchinson assured legislative leaders in a letter this week that his office is checking for any liens on the Newton County hog farm where the state plans to spend […]