Between 1932 and 2000, from the Atchafalaya Basin in the north to the Gulf of Mexico in the south, from Mississippi in the east to Texas in the west, Louisiana lost coastal marshland in twenty parishes, a swath roughly equivalent to the acreage of Delaware.” “Blocking the natural ebb and flow of the water, the Intracoastal and other channels weakened the delicate ecology of the wetlands.” “[Theodore] Roosevelt chronicled the trip in his 1916 travelogue, A Booklover’s Joliday in the Open, and told readers about conservation conclusions he made upon visiting the pristine Gulf island. ‘Birds should be saved because of the utilitarian reasons; and, moreover, they should be saved because of reasons unconnected with any return in dollars and cents,’ he wrote. ‘A grove of giant redwoods, or sequoias should be kept just as we keep a great and beautiful cathedral.’” From THE GREAT DELUGE BY DOUGLAS BRINKLEY
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