The Controversial Plan to Unleash the Mississippi

Photo caption: A history of levee construction has resulted in significant land loss along the Mississippi River Delta in Louisiana. Plans to reroute some of the river sediment will have direct impacts on the communities in Plaquemines Parish, located along the river’s final stretch. Photo credit: Drew Angerer / Getty Images. Article by Boyce Upholt. Hakai Magazine – July 12, 2022.

The creation story told by the Chitimacha people, in Louisiana, describes the world in its earliest days as a wide expanse of water. Then the Great Creator instructed crawfish to dive down and bring up a bit of mud. Geologists tell a similar tale, though their sculptor is the Mississippi River […]

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