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The Battle for the Buffalo River by Neil Compton
The Battle for the Buffalo River by Neil Compton
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The Battle for the Buffalo River

The Story of America's First National River
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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 Arkansas's Buffalo River, the vocal opposition their proposed projects generated dumbfounded them. Never before had anyone challenged the Corps's 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 Nixon's designation of the Buffalo as the first national river. Drawing on hundreds of personal letters, photographs, maps, newspaper articles, and reminiscences, Compton's lively book details the trials, gains, setbacks, and ultimate triumph in one of the first major skirmishes between environmentalists and developers.

Author Biography:

Neil Compton (1912–1999) was also the author of The High Ozarks: A Vision of Eden. He received the National Wildlife Federation's National Conservation Achievement Award and was a President George H. W. Bush Point of Light Recipient for his community service, and in 1990 President Bush presented him with the Teddy Roosevelt Conservation Award.
Release date Australia
March 30th, 2010
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  • Professional & Vocational
Contributor
  • Contributions by Kenneth L. Smith
Illustrations
90 illustrations. photographs
Pages
496
Dimensions
175x251x33
ISBN-13
9781557289353
Product ID
4017050

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