Collections
Digital Buffalo is an ongoing project to make available for researchers, scholars, and teachers original documents and reports, interviews and resources, lectures and interpretive passages, and maps and surveys.
Buffalo National River exhibit at the Arkansas State Capital
The Shiloh Museum of Ozark History, with supporting funds from the Digital Buffalo Project, put on the exhibit “Ken Smith’s Buffalo River Country.”
Donated over the course of more than 20 years, the Kennth L. Smith Papers includes photographs, interviews, notes, research materials, organizational records, and other materials documenting the life and work of Kenneth L. Smith, particularly related to his involvement in environmental conservation in Arkansas and to his research and writings on the lumber industry in the Ouachita region of Arkansas and Oklahoma. Digital Buffalo has made possible digitization of more than 3,000 photographs created or collected by Smith of more than 60 years of his remarkable career studying and working to preserve the ecology, history, and culture of the Buffalo River. These images are accessible thought the Story Maps on the Digital Buffalo site. They will made available online as a whole through the University of Arkansas Libraries Digital Collections, https://digitalcollections.uark.edu/.
40-50-100: Milestones in Arkansas’s Environmental History
The 38-item exhibit went live in May 2013. The citation for this exhibit is: “40-50-100 – Milestones in Arkansas’s Environmental History.” Special Collections, University of Arkansas Libraries, Fayetteville. May 2013.
Downstream People Documentary, Sarjahani, Andy, Director
A corporate industrial hog farm was built inside the Buffalo National River watershed in the Ozark Mountains of Newton County, Arkansas. Though this operation poses an enormous risk to the Buffalo National River, “Downstream People” sheds light on how it exploits not only the natural resources, but the people of rural Arkansas as well.