Some River Outfitters Close Early Due To Low Water

[Phil Lilley]

ST. JOE, Ark. -- Summer may be just now coming to a close but the season was over before it even began for some Ozarks businesses. Canoe rentals just aren't big business during the worst drought in five decades.

The half dozen river outfitters still open along the Buffalo River in northwest Arkansas have been powering through painfully low water levels since June. There are 12 total; the upper portion of the river is usually unfloatable by now and those businesses close in early summer, but even one outfitter in the middle river is no longer renting and the ones that are renting aren't renting much.

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