In the 1960s, a group of businessmen bought 16,000 acres of swampy bottomland along the Ouachita River in northern Louisiana and built miles of levee around it. They bulldozed its oak and cypress trees and, when the land dried out, turned it into a soybean farm. Now two brothers who grew up nearby are undoing all that work.
Twenty-five years after the federal government declared a long stretch of the Hudson River to be a contaminated Superfund site, the cleanup of its chief remaining source of pollution begins.
Integrated Approaches to Riverine Resource Stewardship: Case Studies, Science, Law, People, and Policy provides a detailed description of several case studies of riverine ecosystem management throughout North America as well as several other related topics.
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