A tornado ripped through the White River National Wildlife Refuge on July 30, plowing a path a quarter to half mile wide, snapping off trees and creating havoc in a refuge that protects 160,000 acres of bottomland hardwood forest. Or not.
The debris left behind will attract wood-boring insects, which will attract birds and bears. Turkeys [...]
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What to do with the water come flood time has been an issue for the Corps of Engineers since the 19th century. Levees kept it off the fields until the levees broke, and the levees broke massively in 1927.
After the Flood of 1927, which inundated the Lower Mississippi Valley from valley wall to valley wall, [...]
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Big Creek Watershed: Boat Gunwale Slash
Monroe County, Arkansas
The goal of the 1972 clean water act was to render the nation’s lakes and streams “fishable and swimmable.” We Americans spent billions to clean up sewage and other dumped materials from rivers in the first years following passage of the act only to learn that water quality [...]
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