Land Use Issues & Controversies

Big Lake Wars
Competition and contention over an abundant (and unregulated) storehouse of northeastern Arkansas wildlife fro...
Camp Halsey
Camp Halsey was a Soil Conservation Service camp established in 1934 a few miles to the east of Greenbrier in ...
Crossett Experimental Forest (CEF)
Established in 1934, the Crossett Experimental Forest (CEF) of the United States Department of Agriculture (US...
Deforestation
Deforestation is the conversion of timbered lands into one or more non-forest uses. A classical example of def...
Experimental Forests
Experimental forests are timbered lands that have been established primarily for scientific research and demon...
Levees and Drainage Districts
Reclaiming the swamp and overflow lands in the Mississippi River Delta required draining those lands and build...
Levi Wilcoxon Demonstration Forest
The Levi Wilcoxon Demonstration Forest (LWDF) is located about three miles south of Hamburg (Ashley County) al...
Military Land Grants
aka: Military Bounty Warrants
The system of granting free land in the public domain to men who se...
Save the River Parks Campaign
aka: Audubon Society of Central Arkansas v. Dailey
“Save the River Parks” was a slogan adopted by environmental an...
Snag Boats
As American settlers pushed westward following the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, their goals of settlement, civi...
Soil Conservation
Around 10,000 to 12,000 years ago, the first human inhabitants of what was to become the state of Arkansas cou...
Soils
Arkansas has a diversity of rich soils that developed in a favorable environment for growing plants. The soils...
Spanish Land Grants
Arkansas inherited a complex legacy of land grants from its time as part of Spanish Louisiana. Beginning in 17...
Superfund Sites
In 1980, Congress passed, and President Jimmy Carter signed, the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compens...
Swamp Land Act of 1850
The Swamp Land Act of 1850 gave Arkansas the right to identify and sell millions of acres of overflowed and sw...
White Flight
“White flight”—the departure of white residents from racially mixed cities to heavily white suburban enc...