The last thing we need is some young, wannabe Hitler Youth running around the park with guns, trying to make a name for themselves. Taxpayers do not support the National Park Service to be harrassed, rousted, or simply spied upon, nor to be charged fee upon fee. Maybe someday the rangers of the Buffalo National River will again become the friends of the river. At The Swimming Hole I was reading through back issues of the Ozark Society Bulletins, dating back to the late 60's, when Dr. Neil Compton, and the Hedges were leading the fight to preserve the river. When all is said and done, the Buffalo National River has hardly been preserved like it was back then.
Access is closed along most of the river.
Camping is discouraged along the river, and most people are being shoveled into the Park Servics' newly built campgrounds, like Erbie. What a lousy job they did there. If you ever want to see a place you don't want to camp at, check out the Park Service's pride and joy. They changed the entire landscape, just to build a campground where there is little shade and the ticks and chiggers abound in the fields they have you camp in. All the Park Service is doing is trying to control access, slowly choking off the taxpayer's right to use their own public resources without paying a fee.