TY  - BOOK
AU  - Compton,Neil
TI  - The battle for the Buffalo River: a twentieth-century conservation crisis in the Ozarks 
SN  - 9781610750585
AV  - QH76 .B388 1992
PY  - 1992///
CY  - Fayetteville
PB  - University of Arkansas Press
KW  - Nature conservation
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Arkansas
KW  - Buffalo River
KW  - Nature Conservation
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 2; b
N2  - Under the auspices of the 1938 Flood Control Act, the U.S. Corps of Engineers began to pursue an aggressive dam-building campaign. A grateful public generally lauded their efforts, but when they turned their attention to Arkansass Buffalo River, the vocal opposition their proposed projects generated dumbfounded them. Never before had anyone challenged the Corps assumption that damming a river was an improvement. Led by Neil Compton, a physician in Bentonville, Arkansas, a group of area conservationists formed the Ozark Society to join the battle for the Buffalo. This book is the account of this decade-long struggle that drew in such political figures as supreme court justice William O. Douglas, Senator J. William Fulbright, and Governor Orval Faubus. The battle finally ended in 1972 with President Richard Nixons designation of the Buffalo as the first national river. Drawing on hundreds of personal letters, photographs, maps, newspaper articles, and reminiscences, Comptons lively book details the trials, gains, setbacks, and ultimate triumph in one of the first major skirmishes between environmentalists and developers
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