"Bob Noel" wrote:
[snip]
Marshes are not wasteland; they serve important hydrological and
biological purposes that make them worth preserving. If we do not
learn
this, we will continue to create these intractable, slow motion
catastrophes.

I caught part of a Discovery Channel show about the marshes around
New Orleans - very interesting stuff about silt/sand/"filtering", etc.
Fighting Mother Nature isn't a simple thing at all.

It usually turns out to be trading short term gain for long term loss.

Humans will be truly smart when we learn to adapt our activities to
natural systems, rather than the other way around.

--
Dan
C172RG at BFM