[PCA] NEWS: Destroying Levees in a State Usually Clamoring for Them

[Olivia Kwong]

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/20/science/earth/20levee.html?ref=science

Destroying Levees in a State Usually Clamoring for Them 
By CORNELIA DEAN
Published: June 19, 2009

In the 1960s, a group of businessmen bought 16,000 acres of swampy 
bottomland along the Ouachita River in northern Louisiana and built miles 
of levee around it. They bulldozed its oak and cypress trees and, when the 
land dried out, turned it into a soybean farm.

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