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Offline ABX

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"Drain the swamp" may be a popular political slogan, but it doesn't always work so well in nature.

In southeastern Virginia and northeastern North Carolina, the Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge has been dramatically altered over the past few centuries by human development, creating an environment more vulnerable to both floods and wildfires. Now, a federal project is trying to restore some of the swamp's natural habitat and other characteristics through a $3 million effort that aims to reverse some of that damage.....

http://www.npr.org/2017/07/03/534150922/after-centuries-of-draining-this-swamp-the-government-now-wants-to-save-it



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I do love swamps of every kind.

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Fifty years ago the government was channelizing streams and generally ruining swamp, marsh, and estuaries. I doubt they will get this right...
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