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Category : Floods
Languages : en
Pages : 1248
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The Battle for the Buffalo River
Author: Neil Compton
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
ISBN: 1557289352
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 502
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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.
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
ISBN: 1557289352
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
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.
Geological Survey Water-supply Paper
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Category : Floods
Languages : en
Pages : 1248
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Category : Floods
Languages : en
Pages : 1248
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Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution
Author: Smithsonian Institution Bureau of Ethnology
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Languages : en
Pages : 690
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Languages : en
Pages : 690
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Water Levels and Artesian Pressure in Observation Wells in the United States
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Category : Irrigation
Languages : en
Pages : 1132
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Category : Irrigation
Languages : en
Pages : 1132
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Light List
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Category : Aids to navigation
Languages : en
Pages : 1326
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Category : Aids to navigation
Languages : en
Pages : 1326
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List of Lights and Other Marine Aids
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Category : Aids to navigation
Languages : en
Pages : 642
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Category : Aids to navigation
Languages : en
Pages : 642
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Climatological Data
Author: United States. Environmental Data Service
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Category : Meteorology
Languages : en
Pages : 756
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Category : Meteorology
Languages : en
Pages : 756
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U.S. Geological Survey Circular
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Languages : en
Pages : 420
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Languages : en
Pages : 420
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Papers
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 190
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 190
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Laws of the United States Relating to the Improvement of Rivers and Harbors from August 11, 1790, to March 4, 1913
Author: United States
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Category : Harbors
Languages : en
Pages : 1044
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Category : Harbors
Languages : en
Pages : 1044
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