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Buffalo River Conservation Committee Formed to Implement Watershed Plan

By JACQUELINE FROELICH & KYLE KELLAMS • OCT 21, 2019

The Buffalo River Conservation Committee, which was authorized by Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson, has been charged with developing a non-regulatory, watershed-based management plan. More than $2 million dollars in state and private funding will be distributed to watershed stakeholders as conservation grants. Attorney Ross Noland, executive director of the Buffalo River Foundationdescribes it as cooperative conservation.