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Spring ’23 maintenance campaign
Mark your calendar! The Ozark Society’s Spring ’23 maintenance campaign for the BRT/OHT will be March 24-28 so join us for a day, the weekend, or longer. We’ll be camping at Tyler Bend in the main campground with no charge for our reserved sites. I anticipate setting-up camp on the 23rd, working in the field…
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Fall ’22 Wrap-up
Ken’s Krew’s fall ’22 work ended Wednesday October 26th. The weather was mostly good with Tuesday as the only rain-out. We had 3-5 people most of the time with 2 newcomers and logged about 143 volunteer hours. A couple sections of the BRT/OHT that we’ve maintained in the past were recently adopted so we had…
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Fall ’22 maintenance session
Mark your calendar! The Ozark Society’s Fall ’22 maintenance session for the BRT/OHT will be October 21-26 so join us for a day, the weekend, or longer. We’ll be camping at Tyler Bend in the main campground with no charge for our reserved sites. I anticipate setting-up camp on the 20th, working in the field…
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Cutting the Ribbon for Phase 3
An April 25 ribbon-cutting ceremony at Grinders Ferry commemorated the opening of Phase 3 of the BRT – the 28-mile segment between US-65 and AR-14. Present were representatives of BNR, Ozark Society, Ken’s Krew, Ozark Highlands Trail Association, and Searcy County Chamber of Commerce. Cutting the ribbon are Ken Smith, BNR Superintendent Mark Foust, and…
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BRT – Phase 4
We are embarking on a project to add another 29 miles to the Buffalo River Trail – this time a connector between Pruitt and the Richland Valley to fill the gap between the 2 existing segments and create about 110 continuous miles of trail. A rough route was developed on paper by Ken Smith many…
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“First River: How Arkansas Saved a National Treasure”
The new documentary First River: How Arkansas Saved a National Treasure can now be streamed or downloaded. This ultimately leads to Vimeo so if you have that app on your TV, Roku, etc… you can find it that way too. The film crew was with us for a day in March ’21 as we worked…
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March 2022 summary
Another semi-annual work session for Ken’s Krew is complete. We had 8 people at the peak and our big projects were lopping 6.5 miles of trail from Brush Creek to Little Rocky Creek (including removal of some major tangles of down trees), building a few more stairs in Xmas Hollow, delivering a major beat-down to…
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Phase 3 complete
What I am retroactively calling “Phase 3” – the segment between US65 at Tyler Bend and AR14 at Dillard’s Ferry – was completed April 1 2021. The construction of the final 1/4-mile of trail in the vicinity of Little Rocky Creek (between Red Bluff Rd and South Maumee Rd) caps a project begun in October…
Buffalo River Trail Crew
Buffalo River Trail Crew 