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Ted Haviland: The Jacks Fork is the most beautiful river in the state of Missouri.
The river is probably the cleanest purest, water that you are going to find in any river around here.
I’m a little prejudiced, but I still believe that it’s true.
A few years ago, we were having a lot of problems on the river with the crowd getting rowdy.
There was some harassment, nudity, things like that going on.
We got together with law enforcement and some other groups in the area
and had a couple of conferences on the matter
and we encouraged them to show a greater presence on the river.
In the last two years, it has dropped dramatically.
So the behavior on the river has changed, the attitude of the people has changed.
It’s become a family river again, and that is something that we are very proud of.