Ecosystem Restoration as Infrastructure–Houma Nav, Part 1

The Houma Navigation Canal is Terrebonne Basin’s answer to MRGO, with similar results. When I first visited the Caillou Marshes in the Terrebonne Basin in 1995, I crossed the road between Bayou Grand Caillou and Bayou du Large and came upon this dead cypress forest, the first I had seen. 

Bayou du Large/Bayou Grand Caillou: Caillou Marshes
Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana
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