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Mountain View is ideally located in the North Central Ozarks to enable an explorer to use this area as a base from which to visit many other unique attractions. There are numerous other historic communities

Adventures & Activities

Mountain View, AR is a place to relax, refocus and renew – and have a blast!!!

• Canoe or kayak along the banks of one of the most pristine and unspoiled lakes and rivers in the Ozarks.

• Hike among trails of oak and poplar trees growing in an ancient Ozark National Forest.

• Ride the Mountain Bike Sylamore Trail System. IMBA Epics are at the top of many mountain bikers “must-ride” lists as they “create classic memories and inspire us to save the trails”. For more details see www.imba.com/epics.

• Sleep in (or get up at dawn to see the swirls of mist rising from the White River and the mountains go through their daily transformation from purple to red to gold to green – and back.)
 

• Float the Buffalo River, or get chilled to the bone and thrilled to the marrow white watering the 30+ rivers and creeks which offer class III and V rapids during the white water season.

• Take a day or two and ride the many equestrian trails that are available in the Ozark National Forest to riders of all skill levels. Ride horses to mountain pinnacles and be humbled by the grandeur before you

• Water ski, wake board, go tubing (or just float on a raft and look up at the clouds) while enjoying the near by Greers Ferry ,Norfolk and Bull Shoals Lakes, with 1500 mile + shoreline there is a lot of exploring to do.

• Cast your lure under a fallen tree in a deserted cove and fish for the next world record brownie, or cast for the big mount or small-mouth bass.
• Fly fish some of the top river in the Eastern US
• Meet your friends in your own quiet cove on the lake for a float party
• Cookout in one of the many campsites along the river (or spend the night and let the crickets put you to sleep)
• Roast marshmallows on an open fire
• Look into a night sky with more stars than you ever imagined and meteors falling to earth

• Sing
• Play board games into the night
• Sit, meditate, contemplate, remember, plan, compose, breathe in, exhale…
• Follow the flight of the mighty Bald Eagle or the tiny hummingbird or watch golden finches feeding on your porch
• Take in the colors of the wildflowers and the smell of the pines
• Be awed by Autumn
• Listen to the silence
• Watch the sunset and swear you’ve never seen one like it before
• Talk to your children (or better yet, listen to them)
• Fall in love again
• Find serenity

 
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Mission

Who We Are

The Greers Ferry National Fish Hatchery is one of more than 80 units in the National Fish Hatchery System administered by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The Service also manages over 475 national wildlife refuges and major fish and wildlife research laboratories across the country. As the Nation’s primary steward of fish and wildlife resources, the Service provides leadership in habitat and wetlands protection; fish and wildlife research and technical assistance; and in the conservation and protection of migratory birds, anadromous fishes, certain marine mammals, and threatened and endangered species.

What We Do

Operated by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Department of the Interior, this National Fish Hatchery is one of many serving a vital role in the management of our country’s fishery resources.

Construction of a dam, regardless of its type, alters the entire environment within the river. The first and most obvious change takes place when the reservoir fills, but many changes may also take place below the dam. Some changes might be subtle, and others, like those in the Greers Ferry tailwaters, might be quite drastic. Greers Ferry Dam produces a large, deep reservoir in which the water stratifies into temperature layers during the summer. The water released into Little Red River comes from a deep, cool layer. The cool water released through the dam caused a loss of the original warm-water fish habitat and replaced it with the present cold tailwater.

The Greers Ferry Hatchery was established in 1965 to produce rainbow trout for restocking the cold tailwaters below Greers Ferry and other U.S. Corps of Engineers water projects (dams) located in Arkansas, eastern Oklahoma, and neighboring states. In cooperation with the State game and fish agencies, we distribute about 220,000 pounds of trout each year to suitable waters in Arkansas and eastern Oklahoma. The hatchery’s water supply comes from Greers Ferry Reservoir at a depth of more than 100 feet below the water surface.

The temperature at this depth is cold the year round, ranging between 44° and 56°F. After the water is aerated to add oxygen, it flows through the hatchery at rates up to 12,000 gallons per minute.

How We Do It

Greers Ferry does not have any adult trout for breeding purposes. The hatchery receives fertilized eggs from other Federal hatcheries, called broodstock hatcheries. Currently we receive eggs from Erwin NFH in Tennessee and Ennis NFH in Montana.

Eggs are received and incubated in the juvenile fish rearing area of the hatchery building from August through March.  At this stage the fish are extremely vulnerable, and we ask that visitors do not touch anything while in this area.

As the eggs hatch and the yolk sacs are absorbed, the young trout swim up from the bottom of the troughs and are fed commercial fish food 5-6 times a day.  When they reach a size of approximately 2–3 inches (5-6 months old), the fingerling trout are transferred outside to the raceways.

In the raceway area, the fish are fed and cared for until they reach the 11-inch stocking size (approximately 20 months old). Feeding activities range from twice a day for the larger fish to 4–5 times daily for the smaller sizes.

Throughout the year fish are harvested from the raceways and distributed by truck for stocking in tailwaters and reservoirs in Arkansas and surrounding states. Greers Ferry National Fish Hatchery stocks approximately 1 million rainbow trout annually. Hopefully, we are providing you with the subject for your next “big fish story.”

Staff

Sherri Shoults, Hatchery Manager
Greers Ferry National Fish Hatchery
349 Hatchery Road
Heber Springs, AR 72543
Phone: 501-362-3615
Fax: 501-362-4007
Email: greersferry@fws.gov

In our society it seems popular to criticize Christians and blame them for things that really are not their fault. They are even lumped in the same category with cults and weird sects. People should realize there are things that are said and done in the name of Christianity that are not Christian at all. The Bible even warns us of people like that who actually hurt the cause of Christ.  In this article when I speak of Christian or Christianity, I am referring to the true believer and the true followers of Christ.  

Many people do not realize what the Bible and Christian influence has accomplished for the betterment of our lives, especially here in the United States. They walk around enjoying the good life with its abundance here in free America, without understanding they owe it all to a book they have been taught by many to despise — the Bible. Even some countries who have embraced false religions are blessed in aspects of their societies where they are practicing scriptural principles. The keeping of God’s Word always brings blessing.

It is a well-known fact that our founding fathers in the USA were, for the most part, godly men who took the Bible’s principles to construct our Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. Any unbiased historian knows that the Bible has had a much greater influence in the shaping of the foundation of this nation than is being currently taught in our schools. Let us look at some of these influences that we could lose if we fail to acknowledge God and bring Him back in the national life.

Published on February, 08 2012 – by ABC News Radio

Entertainment

Johnny Cash – Great Depression – Depression

Sony Legacy RecordingsFebruary 26 will mark the 80th anniversary of Johnny Cash‘s birth, and several of the music icon’s family members will gather that day at a ground-breaking ceremony for a restoration project at his childhood home in Dyess, Arkansas.  The site will be transformed into a historic attraction called The Johnny Cash Boyhood Home that not only will  pay homage to the legendary singer/songwriter, but also will serve as a tribute to rural American life during the Great Depression.  The project, which is being supervised by Arkansas State University, will incorporate a number of other buildings in Dyess.
The ground-breaking also will mark the start of a yearlong campaign that will celebrate the late Cash’s life and music.  The initiative will include the opening of a new Johnny Cash museum in downtown Nashville, as well as a series of archival releases that will hit stores starting in the spring.
In a statement, Cash’s daughter Rosanne described the Johnny Cash Boyhood Home project as “an undertaking long in the planning, and a great honor and thrill for our family.”

Corps workshop

-photo courtesy Foster Smith, White County Historical Society

The Missouri & North Arkansas Railroad’s depot was tiny Letona’s doorway to the world when this photo was made in 1918. The building at right behind the depot is the Letona Hotel. M. Lee lived in the house at left.

Thoughts On The M&NA

By RICHARD ALLIN

he reminiscing about the Missouri and North Arkansas Railroad the other day has brought a gratifying amount of comment from people who were acquainted with it. The railroad, remember, ran from Helena, through Kensett, Searcy, Higden, Harrison and Eureka Springs, to Joplin, Mo. After enjoying a wobbly running out of the Delta up through the Ozarks, it finally died of financial difficulties.

A Pine Bluff reader advances his theory as to why the railroad had to collapse:  “The M and NA was doomed at the start,” he writes. “When it was organized, Jay Gould, the big railroad tycoon, was not included or consulted.  The M and NA was originally projected to terminate at the Gulf Coast, but ended at Helena.  Gould proceeded to parallel the M and NA with his building of the White River Division of the Missouri Pacific system, thereby diverting much business from the M and NA.”

A Little Rock man who was once a traveling salesman in the northwest Arkansas area has some interesting thoughts on the M and NA.  “Your column re: the ‘rural railroad’ brings back memories of when I first started traveling Arkansas.  “You mention that the road was known as the ‘M and NA’ for Missouri and North Arkansas. One name applied by the traveling men of those early days was ‘May Never Arrive,’ and in the days before even fair gravel roads, to say nothing of freeways or paved roads, about the only way you could go from Helena to Harrison was to ride the ‘May Never Arrive,’ and it was usually late.

I recall one winter night when the train was scheduled to come into Harrison from Missouri, and the ‘chair car’ with a woodburning stove for heat was well filled with traveling men. I was among them.  The engine of the train broke down at Alpena, and we sat in the car for several hours.  The weather necessitated chucking more wood in the stove and we burned up all there was in the wood box in our car.  When the fire died down it began to get cold.  Some brave souls went outside and tore boards off the side of the station and broke them up to rebuild the fire in the train.

“As you explained, the train stopped along the road for lunch and one story told by traveling men about one of the eating places was that travelers went across the dirt road to a boarding house and the old lady who operated the house stood guard at one end of the table with a freshly cut sassafras limb with green leaves on it which she swayed back and forth over the table to keep the flies away…”

That’s a very welcome and informative letter.  It adds several valuable sidelights to the history of the rural railroad.  The only question I have about the traveling salesmen who were delayed on the winter evening at Alpena is this:  Why did they bother to tear the boards off the station? I looks like it would have been much more reasonable, and easier on the railroad, if they had just gone up and borrowed a few lumps of coal from the engine.  On the M and NA the engine couldn’t have been too far away.  vvv

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