Resident of Illinois River watershed in Fayetteville, Arkansas, reports state-sanctioned pollution of tributary of the Illinois River to Northwest Arkansas Times

Front-page story in Saturday, January 28, 2012, Northwest Arkansas Times by Joel Walsh with photos by Andy Shupe documents misbehavior and lack of environmental awareness of the powers-that-be at the Arkansas Highway and Transportation Department. For more photos of that site and many similar AHTD worksites, see Flickr AHTD set of photos: 

All the excuses in the newsstory given by city and state officials mean nothing. There is NO excuse for allowing significant siltation of any stream!

Did you express an opinion you really would like to share with more people than heard it? I did, and I am sharing on the shortake-segment of Fayetteville public television for the coming week of January 29 through February 4, 2012, on Fayetteville's public-access television station, Cox 218 and AT&T U-verse, as well as on You Tube, linked below: Don't miss your chance to do the same every week

To learn how and when you can have your own 5-minute short takes recorded, please see
the Your Media Web site.

Video on public television Jan. 16-21, 2012

Park board hears comments on value of preserving soil and native plants on proposed construction site on Rochier Hill west of Pinnacle Prairie and World Peace Wetland Prairie

Dredging and filling seasonally wet prairie for small-lot housing just plain WRONG

December 20, 2011, meeting of Fayetteville AR city council draws comment on several important local issues on a 3-hour, 37-minute video