videos & Audio

DOWNSTREAM PEOPLE is a 32-minute documentary by Andy Sarjahani produced in 2016 that explores the social, economic, and environmental consequences of a corporately contracted industrial hog farm that was built inside the Buffalo National River watershed in the Ozark Mountains of Newton County, Arkansas. Though this operation poses an enormous risk to the Buffalo National River, DOWNSTREAM PEOPLE sheds light on how it exploits not only the natural resources, but the people of rural Arkansas as well.

Downstream People from Andy Sarjahani on Vimeo.

AETN Spot - a television ad BRWA is running on public television throughout 2019.

SAVE THE BUFFALO…AGAIN VIDEO

Updated February, 2017

Short Youtube video of algae problem on the Buffalo, September, 2018

Welcome to Poopytown, a video by The Lexicon of Sustainability. Click the image below for the Vimeo link or click here for the website. October, 2017

Hog Farms in Arkansas. from The Lexicon on Vimeo.

C&H Hog Farm Permit Hearing

Jasper, AR March 7, 2011

Hogs On The Buffalo, a production of the PBS series, This American Land, released in February, 2015

Hog Lament: A 3-minute YouTube video about the current plight of the Buffalo National River

ADEQ Question and Answer Session on C&H Hog Farm Permit, immediately preceding the formal permit hearing below, Jasper AR, March 7, 2017

Discovery Farms "Gentleman's Agreement" 2-minute excerpt. The two-minute video excerpt below is from a presentation at a national Cooperative Extension Service conference in Denver, CO, April, 2013 about the Arkansas Discovery Farm program. A link to the full, 38-minute presentation follows. Dr. Andrew Sharpley, now head of Big Creek Research & Extension (BCRET), discusses a "gentlemen's agreement" with ADEQ to look the other way when violations occur:

The Discovery Farms Model: The Impact of Helping Farmers Take Control of Water Quality Management full 38-minute presentation. The above excerpt begins at 6:45.

John Ikerd Presentation at the Fayetteville Public Library, November 22, 2016 Dr John Ikerd, a retired emeritus professor from the University of Missouri, presented a talk in Fayetteville, AR entitled "Why Bigger is Not Better" about the environmental and health problems associated with industrial agriculture, especially Confined Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs).

This is an outstanding video that shows the impacts of hog CAFOs. It is a TEDTalk presented by Dr Steve Wing.

This is a video produced by the Farm Bureau featuring Dr. Andrew Sharpley, head of the Big Creek Research Team which was charged by Gov. Beebe with monitoring the environmental impact of C & H Hog Farm. Some have suggested that this research has moved beyond monitoring to actually facilitating the operation's success.

Keep The Buffalo Clean And Pristine a 10-minute video from March, 2013 narrated by KUAF reporter Jacqueline Froelich providing an early overview of the C&H issue.

ROLLING OUT THE SCIENCE. This is a YouTube video of a public presentation on October 18, 2014 to update the public on the current private research activities related to C&H

Opportunity For Arkansas - Buffalo National River a YouTube video of remastered 8mm footage by Dr. Neil Compton from 1963 showing the threat of damming and the first effort to Save The Buffalo.