The Missouri Natural Streams Act (1990): How an Environmental Campaign Was Waged and Lost * Lord, We're Just Trying to Save Your Water

Both using oral history to recount environmental battles inthe South, these two studies could not be more different. Onefeatures a participant-observer approach to several regionalissues and the other an analysis of one complex electoral campaignin one state. Bradley reports on an almost forgotten, even by Google, effortto control unsuitable developments along ninety-one Missouririvers. A regional freelance reporter at the time, I rememberwhat was "unsuitable," and the issue of how to regulate suchvaluable real estate became quite