Destroying Levees in Louisiana
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June 2009 Web
By Kristin Standley
The most important part of the project, however, might just be the idea that levees can come down. This will be the biggest levee busting project ever to take place in the United States, and may open the way to restoring more natural wetlands. When the levee broke naturally in May of this year, it actually reduced the flood risk to Monroe City, downstream.
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The Federal Fish and Wildlife service acquired Mollicy Farms in 1990. In the 1960s the land was cleared and ringed with levees to allow for soybean planting. Now, the Nature Conservancy is reclaiming the land through the planting of cypress, oak, green ash, sweetgum and pecan trees. With the destruction of the levees, the muddy river should turn into a swampy bottomland that can be home to black bear cubs, largemouth bass, crawfish, turkeys and cottonmouths.
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