CALS Butler Center for Arkansas Studies Presents LEGACIES & LUNCH

Speaker: Brian Thompson

In 2013, a large industrial hog farm was quietly granted a permit to be built along the banks of Big Creek, a major tributary of the Buffalo National River. Due to the sensitivity of the location and the lack of public notification, Arkansas conservation organizations challenged the state regulatory processes that allowed for this permit to be approved. Brian Thompson’s book is a first-hand account of the seven-year controversy over this industrial threat to our nation’s “first national river.”

Brian Thompson is retired from a thirty-four-year career with Tyson Foods.