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Distributaries.

22-Jun-14

http://punchdrunksoul.com/168-how-to-handle-fears-of-instability-and-insecurity-when-launching-your-own-coaching-business-making-your-own-money/168-jaleesa-fi/Instagram.com/punchdrunksoul Heading back to New Orleans from the Atchafalaya I spoke with Randy about the possibility of the Corps opening distributaries from the Mississippi in order to build the coastline back up. The way he spoke had been encouraging. He spoke of the current model – channeling the river so it flows fast and deep straight […]

In the Atchafalaya.

20-Jun-14

Stoke-on-Trent I think most people whose love of nature is undimmed by mechanized life fantasize about the swamp: paddling a boat beneath a dense canopy of trees; being watched by motionless reptiles and cunning panthers; feeling the thud of living motion against the hull of your boat and wondering what it is; seeing strange blooms deep […]

Into Cajun Territory Again.

20-Jun-14

Randy and I had contacted Dean Wilson, the legendary founder of the Atchafalaya Basinkeeper, to arrange a tour of the area. Wilson is a member of one of the most exclusive clubs in the world, the Louisiana environmentalists. Conditions in Louisiana do not tend to generate environmentalists. Not only is the state, which is one […]