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Whitaker Point, also known as Hawksbill Crag, is one of the most photographed sites of the Buffalo National River in the Arkansas Ozarks. Buffalo National River 50th Anniversary Story by Barbara Gibbs Ostmann Photos courtesy of Arkansas Tourism The bluffs along the Buffalo National River are decorated by Mother Nature in the fall. 6
Where the Buffalo Roams addling the Buffalo River in northern Arkansas is always exceptional. About the only way to top it is to paddle with Mike Mills, owner of the Buffalo Outdoor Center in Ponca, Ark., and quite possibly the person who knows the river best from a lifetime of experience. When Mike Mills was about 8 years old, he started canoeing and camping with his dad. “Dad’s form of vacation was to take a canoe and a tent and go camp beside a river and fish,” he recalled. “That was the one week of the year I got to spend the most time with my dad.” “We floated the Buffalo River for the first time in 1965, from Pruitt to Phillip’s Ford (now called Hasty). It was an 8-mile float and took most of the day. I remember stopping at the mouth of the Little Buffalo River and cooking fish in a cast-iron skillet over a fire. The Buffalo just had this draw that was unlike any other river. It was so beautiful; it was so pristine.” Mills was hooked, and those trips with his father helped to define his career. Today Mills is not only doing what he dreamed of doing, but he is also sharing his passion for the Buffalo River with the thousands of people who pass through the area for floating, hiking, elk viewing, camping, fishing, bird-watching, and more. Mills was inducted into the Arkansas Tourism Hall of Fame for his lifelong devotion to the river and the outdoors. First National River nvironmental awareness and conservation movements were sweeping across the country in the 1960s. In the early part of that decade, President John F. Kennedy endorsed the Ozark National Scenic Riverways (ONSR), the first national park to protect a wild, free-flowing river system. Congress in 1964 authorized the act, which protected 134 miles of the Current River and its tributary, the Jacks Fork River, in the Missouri Ozarks. The ONSR became the prototype for the National Wild and Scenic Rivers Act of 1968, which helped protect free-flowing rivers around the country. These two events paved the way for the creation of the Buffalo National River in Arkansas, the country’s first national river (not a river system, as with ONSR). The Buffalo was signed into law on March 1, 1972, one hundred years to the day after the establishment of Yellowstone, the country’s first national park. This year is the 50th anniversary of the Buffalo National River, which makes it a super time to get out and enjoy it. Mike Mills knows the Buffalo National River as well as, if not better than, any other person. Photo by Barbara Gibbs Ostmann <strong>Fall</strong> foliage lights up the Buffalo National River in Arkansas. Autumn paddling on the Buffalo National River offers tranquility as well as beautiful fall foliage. 7
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