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The effects of manipulating Mother Nature

Today most of the flood plain of the Lower Mississippi River is protected from flooding by continuous levees, plus dams, canals and pumps. The results have been catastrophic on the Mississippi Delta. Credit: USGS imagery altered by Richard Thornton

Today most of the flood plain of the Lower Mississippi River is protected from flooding by continuous levees, plus dams, canals and pumps. The results have been catastrophic on the Mississippi Delta.
Prior to 1810, the annual floods of the Mississippi River renewed the soil as the shallow waters spread across broad swaths of its flood plain.
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