November 19, 1987

At a joint meeting of the State Parks, Recreation, and Travel Commission and the Heritage Commission, negotiations culminated with Governor Bill Clinton’s announcement that the state, in cooperation with the Nature Conservancy, would acquire an eleven-mile segment of the upper Cossatot to form the Cossatot River State Park–Natural Area. The park conserves a twelve-and-one-half-mile stretch of the Cossatot River, a southwest Arkansas stream included by the legislature in the state’s Natural and Scenic Rivers System.