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February 10, 1999
Neil Ernest Compton, a physician of obstetrics by profession and a conservationist by avocation who is widely recognized as the founder of the Ozark Society to Save the Buffalo River (today known as the Ozark Society, Inc.), died. The Ozark Society successfully campaigned to stop the construction of two dams on the Buffalo River (Gilbert and Lone Rock) that had been proposed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.