Content Description Scrapbook created by Mary Virginia Ferguson related to the campaign to save the Buffalo River and to her service on the Governor's Committee on Stream Preservation. The bulk of the scrapbook's contents are newspaper clippings; also included is an April 1963 "Suggested Buffalo National River" map created by the Ozark Society; correspondence from the Ozark Society, including a letter from Secretary Evangeline Archer to Ferguson; correspondence from Charlie Johnson to members of the Governor's...

Scope and Content Note The collection consists of administrative files that include, among other records, the Society's by-laws, certificate of incorporation and membership lists; general correspondence as well as the one received and generated by the Society's presidents, secretaries, newsletter editors, and other officers; financial records comprising bank statements, treasurers reports, federal and state tax returns and others; minutes of the Board meetings as well as materials relating to general membership...

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Correspondence, memoranda, financial records, bulletins, legislative bills, clippings, and other published and unpublished records created or received by the principal officers of the Arkansas conservationist and environmental protection society, pertaining especially to its efforts on behalf of Congressional legislation to establish the Buffalo National River.

Scope and Content Note The collection includes photographs, interviews, notes, research materials, organizational records, and other materials documenting the life and work of Kenneth L. Smith, particularly related to his involvement in environmental conservation in Arkansas and to his research and writings on the lumber industry in the Ouachita region of Arkansas and Oklahoma. Series 1 contains materials related to Arkansas environmental organizations, including the Ozark Society, the Arkansas...

Scope and Content Note Correspondence, news releases, clippings (electro­static copy), report, memorandum, list, April 1964, December 3, 1964 to March 2, 1965 and undated, created received, or collected by Fort Smith, Ark. lawyer Robert W. Vater and pertaining to efforts by Ozark Society and others on behalf of Congressional legislation to estab­lish the Buffalo National River. Correspondents include Evangeline Pratt Waterman Archer, Neil Ernest Compton, William Orville Douglas, Edmond Augustus...