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Policy and Outreach

Audubon Arkansas is currently working to improve awareness and protection of Fourche Creek and its tributaries. Please let your elected officials in the city, county, state, and federal government know that you care about Fourche Creek and would like to see if protected.

Talking points:

Local officials: Fourche Creek is an amazing and largely unknown educational and recreational resource. We need to do more to improve water quality in our watershed and protect streambanks on public lands. Fourche Creek is listed on the 303d list for turbidity, most of which is entering our creeks from poorly managed construction sites. Please pass new ordinances and enforce existing ordinances to prevent these sites from destroying our local waterways. We should do more to improve access to and awareness of Fourche Creek and its tributaries. Buying up floodplains for City Parks and building trails along these creeks would be a great way to do this. Please support the Open Space Policy Initiative.

Federal officials: There are multiple Corps of Engineers programs meant to benefit Fourche Creek but every year they receive little or no funding. Please fund the Urban Rivers Restoration Initiative and the unfinished aspects of the Fourche Bayou Basin Project.