Author: Louisiana. State EngineerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Flood control
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Special Report of the State Engineer on the System of Internal Improvements, to the Legislature of the State of Louisiana
Author: Louisiana. State EngineerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Flood control
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Special Report of the State Engineer, on the System of Internal Improvements ...
Author: Louisiana. State EngineerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Designing the Bayous
Author: Martin ReussPublisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 9781585443758
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Louisiana’s Atchafalaya River Basin is one of the most dynamic and critical environments in the country. It sustains the nation’s last cypress-tupelo wetland and provides a habitat for many species of animals. Endowed with natural gas and oil fields, the basin also supports a large commercial fisheries industry. Perhaps most crucial, it remains a primary component of the plan to control the Mississippi River and relieve flooding in New Orleans, Baton Rouge, and other communities in the lower river valley. The continuing health of the basin is a reflection not of nature, but of the work of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. With levee building and clearing in the nineteenth century and damming, dredging, and floodway construction in the twentieth, the basin was converted from a vast forested swamp into a designer wetland, where human aspirations and nature maintained a precarious equilibrium. Originally published by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers primarily for internal distribution, this environmental and political history of the Atchafalaya Basin is an unflinching account of the transformation of an area that has endured perhaps more human manipulation than any other natural environment in the nation. Martin Reuss provides a new preface to bring us up-to-date on the state of the basin, which remains both an engineering contrivance and natural wonder.
Special Report
Author: National Research Council (U.S.). Highway Research BoardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Highway engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 636
Book Description
Special Report on the System of Internal Improvements to the Legislature of the State of Louisiana
Author: Louisiana. State Engineer's DepartmentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Louisiana
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Official Journal of the Proceedings of the Senate of the State of Louisiana, ...
Author: Louisiana. Legislature. SenatePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Special collections
Author: Princeton University. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
The United States
Author: Josiah Dwight WhitneyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Physical geography
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Minutes of the Trustees Internal Improvement Fund of the State of Florida
Author: Florida. Trustees of Internal Improvement FundPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drainage
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
Includes also Financial statement.
The Congressional Globe
Author: United States. CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1100
Book Description