Bruce MacDonald on Nostr: "The Control of Nature" includes the essay "Atchafalaya," which tells the story of ...
"The Control of Nature" includes the essay "Atchafalaya," which tells the story of big engineering projects intended to keep the Mississippi River from changing course and cutting off industrial Louisiana.
"At a place called Old River, the Corps therefore had built a great fortress--part dam, part valve--to restrain the flow of the Atchafalaya and compel the Mississippi to stay where it is."
—from the catalog
Recommended, if you like this kinda thing.
https://hclib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S109C3827230
#rivers #nature
"At a place called Old River, the Corps therefore had built a great fortress--part dam, part valve--to restrain the flow of the Atchafalaya and compel the Mississippi to stay where it is."
—from the catalog
Recommended, if you like this kinda thing.
https://hclib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S109C3827230
#rivers #nature