Rivers Under Siege
The Troubled Saga of West Tennessee Wetlands
Rivers under Siege is a wrenching firsthand account of how human interventions, often well intentioned, have wreaked havoc on West Tennessee's fragile wetlands. For more than a century, farmers and developers tried to tame the rivers as they became clogged with sand and debris, thereby increasing flooding. Building levees and changing the course of the rivers from meandering streams to straight-line channels, developers only made matters worse. Yet the response to failure was always to try to subdue nature, to dig even bigger channels and construct even more levees--an effort that reached its sorry culmination in the U.S. Army Corps of Engine…
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- ISBN: 978-1-57233-490-8
- EAN: 9781572334908
- Produktnummer: 2763818
- Verlag: University of Tennessee Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
- Seitenangabe: 328 S.
- Masse: H22.8 cm x B16.2 cm x D1.6 cm 363 g
- Gewicht: 363
- Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)
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