There are people all up and down the Buffalo River who feel like that they have lost something,

that something has been taken from them, that they have lost something that something has been taken from them

that they are never going to be able to get back that's never going to be restored.

In this series we'll be examining the great American doctrine of utilitarian

conservation, the greatest good for the greatest number through the lens of

the formation of the Buffalo National River in the Ozarks of Arkansas, touted as our

nation's first national river and celebrated without question, but we'll be looking

at a different side of the story, one rarely told or understood,

as we focus on the families who got the short end of the stick on this utilitarian doctrine and had to give up their lands being

displaced by the strong arm of the government. In this episode we'll talk about

human self-interest, take a mule ride with Willard Vlines.

Meet grassroots historian Misty Langdon. And interview our longtime Bear, Greece favorite historian historian and author and hillbilly Dr Brooks Blevins about how the

heck all this happened.

The water is ice cold and the story complex and windy hang with us for a while because I

really doubt that you're gonna want to miss this one where was your house

from right here well it's right up there just about 50 yards.

No foundations on the left of it.

Part tore it down. My name is Clay Newcombe and this is the Bear Greece Podcast, where we'll explore

things forgotten but relevant. Search for insight and unlikely places and

where we'll tell the story of Americans who live their lives close to the

land.

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