1972 Buffalo River decree seen now as right course
Initially on dam list, national park turns 40
Posted: September 23, 2012 at 4:04 a.m.
Ellen Compton, with a picture of her father, Dr. Neil Compton, projected behind her, talks Wednesday at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville about her father’s efforts to preserve the Buffalo River.
Doretha Dillard Shipman can still visit her family’s homesite on the Buffalo National River and go to the spring where her mother washed clothes.
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