[Spartan79]

I’ve done presentations at the DeGray Lake State Park Lodge and the lodge at Mount Magazine; both beautiful facilities in beautiful Arkansas settings.

[Ben Ficklin]

For 25 years I recreated in the Ouachita Mts. Mainly small mouth fishing mainly on the Cossatot river. I also did a lot of trout fishing on the White and Northfork in north AR.

I've used state parks and Corp parks and Natl forest parks some but mainly I camped on land owned by Weyerhauser, who owned about as much land as Ouachita Natl Forest.

In 1992, the Cossatot was turned into a linear state park on land donated by Weyerhauser, from the Natl Forest down to the Corp lake, after which I was camping in a State Park.

Back in the old days you had to know your way around the logging roads and be willing to camp rustic. After it became a state park they started making improvements, putting up signs, putting in solar toilets and it got crowded. They ruined it. Finally, in 2000 Weyerhauser ended their open lands policy and started putting up gates. That ruined it even worse. I haven't been there since 2003