Fayetteville Council Opposes Hog Farm Near Buffalo River By: KOLR10 News with help from KFSM, Fort Smith, ArkansasUpdated: April 11, 2013 FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — The city council in Fayetteville, Arkansas is weighing in about a large commercial hog farm close to the Buffalo National River. Although the hog operation is […]
Legislation targets farms in watersheds By Ryan McGeeneyThis article was published today at 4:33 a.m. CommentsaAFont SizeShareA bipartisan coalition of Arkansas legislators is trying to curb future permits for large scale, concentrated farming within sensitive watersheds throughout the state. House Bill 2252, if passed into law, would impose a two-year […]
PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEApril 8, 2013 National Parks Conservation Association Calls Permitting Process Flawed for Hog Farm onBuffalo National River TributaryNational Parks Group Urges U.S. Department of Agriculture and Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality to Pull Permit Mt. Judea, Ark. – On March 29th, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s […]
CAFOs for dummies Mike Masterson A war between fact and opinion is waging between the National Park Service and the U.S. Farm Services Agency over the environmental assessment submitted with the loan for that concentrated animal feeding operation on a commercial hog farm in the Buffalo National River watershed near […]
Meanwhile, back at the farm Mike Masterson In the public dispute over protecting and preserving the Buffalo National River watershed, the corporation behind the controversial industrial hog farm approved near Mount Judea in Newton County has been virtually anonymous.According to the environmental assessment report filed with the USDA’s Farm Services […]
http://www.nwaonline.com/news/2013/mar/26/buffalo-river-chief-still-hopes-stymie-sw-20130326/ Buffalo River chief still hopes to stymie swineOfficial: Pollution-risk report of farm flawed, permit invalidBy Ryan McGeeney The chief administrator of the Buffalo National River said Monday that he is still hoping to pursue administrative remedies short of requesting an injunction in an attempt to halt the operation of […]
Hog farm flub How’d that happen?By Mike MastersonThis article was published 3/26/13 at 4:21 a.m. I can’t understand how our state’s Department of Environmental Quality and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Farm Services Agency (FSA) would even consider approving the C&H Farms proposal for a commercial hog farm near Big […]
Ozarks at Large March 25 http://www.kuaf.com/content/commission-discusses-swine-farm
News Release Contact Information: Katherine Benenati / 501.682.0821 / [email protected] FOR RELEASE: March 22, 2013 ADEQ TO HOLD MEETING IN JASPER ON HOG FARM The Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality will hold an informational meeting in Jasper on May 8 to provide information on a permit issued for C & […]
Publication:Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette; Date:Mar 23, 2013; Section:Northwest Arkansas; Page Number:9 Pollution panel: Improve noticesHog-farm permit in Buffalo River watershed prompts orderRYAN MCGEENEY ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE Commissioners with the Arkansas Pollution Control and Ecology Commission ordered Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality Director Teresa Marks on Friday to return in April with a […]
Our Buffalo and the hog farm Mike Masterson Those in Northwest Arkansas during the late 1990s likely recall the firestorm of public outcry to the state’s politicized decision (eventually reversed) to permit a landfill on one side of Hobbs Mountain near Durham. It was unbelievable to me when the public […]
http://www.wral.com/groups-opposing-plans-for-newton-county-hog-farm/12227474/ By RYAN McGEENEY, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette /Associated Press This article with a Fayetteville byline was picked up by AP and posted in Raleigh, NCn
KUAF / NPR 91.3 FM is scheduled to report about the CAFO on the Big Creek Tributary of the Buffalo National River Tuesday March 12th at 12 (NOON) CST on their daily news hour ‘Ozarks at Large’ and the broadcast will be repeated at 7:00PM. You can stream at KUAF.com […]
ADEQ has granted a permit for a 6503 swine farm (CAFO) near Big Creek, West of Mt. Judea, (Hwy. intersections 74/123) in Newton County, Arkansas. There will be 17 separate hog waste application fields, 11 of these are adjacent to Big Creek, a tributary to the Buffalo National River. Total […]
On Monday March 4th the Newton County Quorum Court heard testimony on the CAFO (concentrated animal feeding operation) planned on Big Creek, a tributary just 5 miles from the Buffalo National River. NPS review of the supporting documentation found 45 areas of significant errors and omissions in the area of […]
The second “Battle for the Buffalo River” will have many chapters. We begin here and now. If we lose the battle to protect water quality, we lose it all. Our wild river will be dead. Nothing is more fundamental to the environment than water quality — it is the first issue. We […]