November 13, 2010

Neil Compton, shown here in 1993 at age eighty, was an obstetrician by profession and a conservationist by avocation. He is widely recognized as founding president of the Ozark Society to Save the Buffalo River, which succeeded in having the Buffalo River declared the nation’s first National River in 1972.

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