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Article: CONSERVATION HEROES - New Role for Arkansas Lawyer As River Activist.(environmental protection efforts of David Carruth on behalf of White River)(Brief Article)
- Article from:
- National Wildlife
- Article date:
- June 1, 2001
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David Carruth first fell in love with Arkansas' White River as a child when his father and grandfather took him hunting in the bottomlands and taught him to revere the river and the ecosystem it supports.
Decades later, Carruth has emerged as a crusader, trying to rescue the river from a hodgepodge of ill-conceived projects and to devise a strategy for its long-term protection.
A self-described "small-town, one-horse lawyer" in Clarendon, Arkansas, Carruth traces his epiphany to a 1999 visit by representatives from NWF and other national conservation groups who had come to town to alert residents about the government's plans for tinkering with the White ...