The 37-mile Buffalo River Trail is one of Arkansas’s premier backpacking paths, but often when you take it in small bites, you won’t see another soul for miles, Branstetter said.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – A bill introduced in the Arkansas legislature would end the state’s ability to hold moratoriums on permits along the Buffalo River and other watersheds. If Senate Bill 84 ...

Shortly afterward, in 2012, Arkansas granted a permit for a new hog farm, which soon opened along one of the Buffalo River’s tributaries. The hog waste was stored in large lagoons.

The next year, Arkansas paid C&H $6.2 million for the farm land, which is being used as a conservation easement to protect the river. From 2016-18, Driver participated in a study of Big Creek and ...

Arkansas group floats idea of turning Buffalo National River into national park preserve by Ellen Kreth for The Madison County Record October 17, 2023 10:08 am March 20, 2024 1:12 am Partner ...

For the past 50 years, the prevailing target of government distrust in the Ozark Mountains has been Washington, D.C. But a dispute over the Buffalo National River seems to be shifting the dynamic.

Jasper, Ark. — Currently, there are no official proposals or requests to change anything with the Buffalo National River, but some Arkansans are concerned that talks of redesignating the nation ...