How many times has this plan to dam an Ozark river and flood another beautiful valley been suppressed?
Lee Sadler's story in the Sept. 25 editions of The Morning News reports on the $23-billion Water Resources Act:
"The bill also authorizes construction of a dam on Lee Creek in Crawford County, 12 miles north of Van Buren. The Pine Mountain dam would create a flood-control lake that would be used as a regional water supply.
"The dam was initially authorized by Congress in 1965.
"Opponents of the dam maintain it would destroy the beauty of the free-flowing creek and irrevocably harm the wildlife around it."
The verb "maintain," of course, ought to be "say." The factual statement is irrefutable and listing endless imagined or actual possible benefits of the project cannot change the fact of the authorized project's inevitable harm.
Let's hope all conservationists and conservation organizations will keep rising again and again to make sure no more dams will ever be built in this or similar places.
Does Fort Smith have a sustainability coordinator?
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You can thank that nice John Boozman that you like so much.
I never said I agreed with many of his votes in congress! However, I believe he notices what people write and say to him and that it would be wrong not to keep offering him our opinions.
He surely realizes that votes at the polls depend on his votes in the House. Can we ever convince him that he has to change some stances on issues because the majority opinion gradually changes?
I am not sure there is much worth sustaining in Fort Smith.
Ooops! did I say that?
Actually this is a Crawford County boondoggle. Fort Smith has already had its chamce to mess up Lee Creek, Frog Bayou and Lake Fort Smith.
Thanks for the Fort Smith explanation. Crawford County is OK as is. It is too bad the powers-that-be don't like it.
Lee Creek and Frog Bayou and part of the Mulberry, I guess, are the best things that go through Crawford County.
Second best would be truckloads of seafood headed north from Louisiana.
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