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 […]
Buffalo River debacle All Arkansans owe columnist Mike Masterson a huge “thank you” for having kept up with and written about the various thrusts and parries resulting from the assault on the Buffalo River. Without his estimated 100 factual columns over the last six years, most of us would not […]
OPINION LIN WELLFORD and TERESA TURK: Our river saved We can’t let this happen again by Lin Wellford and Teresa Turk Special to the Democrat-Gazette | Today at 1:47 a.m. Thank you, Governor Hutchinson, for stepping up for your state and our national river. It took real courage and commitment […]
Bill ending local CAFO control is a threat to waters This is a message to raise awareness, a “wake-up call” of sorts. Those of us listed below have come together as citizens to express our concerns about a little known action taken by the Missouri legislature in the final week […]
National Parks Traveler Arkansas To Buy Out Hog Farm Poised Upstream Of Buffalo National River By Kurt Repanshek on July 2nd, 2019 Streaming out of the Boston Mountains in northwestern Arkansas, the Buffalo River flows in an arc across the roof of the state, heading north before bending southeasterly, gaining speed as […]
Newton County Times Hog farm deal tied By JAMES L. WHITE [email protected] Jul 1, 2019 The Arkansas Natural Heritage Commission on Friday approved the settlement for the conservation easement on the property that is currently C&H Hog Farm near Mt. Judea. On June 13, Gov. Asa Hutchinson announced that the […]
Democrat Gazette OPINION REX NELSON: State of the stateby Rex Nelson | June 30, 2019 at 2:01 a.m. I’ve arrived early for my speaking engagement at Fordyce Rotary Club, so I decide to head downtown and walk around. While reading the timeline of local history behind Dallas County Museum, I think […]
Eureka Springs Independent Editorial: Payout is great for polluting the Buffalo By Becky Gillette – June 26, 2019 Recent news that the State of Arkansas had reached a settlement to pay the owners of C&H Farms $6.2 million to shut down the confined animal feeding operation (CAFO) allowed to […]