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
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.
Report of the Board of State Engineers of the State of Louisiana to ... Governor of Louisiana from ...
Author: Louisiana Board of State EngineersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bayous
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Official Journal of the Proceedings of House of Representatives of the State of Louisiana at the ... General Assembly ...
Author: Louisiana. Legislature. House of RepresentativesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Minority Report of the Committee on Agriculture, Recommending a Geological Survey of the State, with a Bill for that Purpose
Author: Louisiana. Legislature. House of Representatives. Committee on AgriculturePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geological surveys
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
Official Journal of the Proceedings of the House of Representatives of the State of Louisiana
Author: Louisiana. Legislature. House of RepresentativesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Louisiana
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
American Imprints Inventory
Author: Historical Records Survey (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 610
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
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