Holding Louisiana

Technology and Culture

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 102-107

  Shallat, Todd ^a  

^a BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 33645939954     PISSN: 0040165X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/tech.2006.0097     Document Type: Article

References (36)

1. Donald F. Boesch et al., "Scientific Assessment of Coastal Wetland Loss, Restoration and Management in Louisiana," Journal of Coastal Research 20 (May 1994): 1-6;
2. Karen Wright, "Diluvian Tremens: Policy Initiatives Could Turn Tide on Wetlands Loss," Scientific American, October 1989, 32-34;
3. Louisiana Coastal Wetlands Conservation Task Force, Louisiana Coastal Wetlands Restoration Plan (n.p., November 1993), 2.
4. Robert D. Brown, "Restoring Louisiana's Wetlands," Military Engineer 550 (July 1992): 4.
5. Bruce Babbitt, "Saving Tomorrow's Wetlands Today," Water Marks: Louisiana Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration News, spring 1995, 1.
6. Constance Elizabeth Hunt, Down by the River: The Impact of Federal Water Projects and Policies on Biological Diversity (Washington, D.C., 1988), 146-47, 164-69.
7. For the environmental impact of river engineering, see U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Vicksburg District, Upper Yazoo Projects Reformulation Study (Vicksburg, Miss., 1993), 1:13-19
8. passim; R. K. Yancy, "Our Vanishing Hardwoods," Louisiana Conservationist, March-April 1970, 26-31;
9. and Philip V. Scarpino, Great River: An Environmental History of the Upper Mississippi, 1890-1950 (Columbia, Mo., 1985).
10. Charley Fryling, Baton Rouge Audubon Society, interview by author, Baton Rouge, 13 June 1996. On the corps' changing constituency, see Leonard A. Shabman, "Decision Making in Water Resource Development and the Potential of Multi-Objective Planning: The Case of the Army Corps of Engineers," technical report no. 2, Cornell University Water Resources and Marine Science Center, Ithaca, N.Y., 1972.
11. Mark Davis, Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana, interview by author, Baton Rouge, 20 June 1996.
12. National Research Council, Restoration of Aquatic Ecosystems (Washington, D.C., 1992), 18.
13. Mark Davis, Restoration of Aquatic Ecosystems Ibid., 10, 12, 18, 498-99.
14. On scientific debate over the state of nature, see Michael G. Barbour, "Ecological Fragmentation in the Fifties," in Uncommon Ground: Toward Reinventing Nature, ed. William Cronon (New York, 1995), 233-55.
15. William Cronon, "The Trouble with Wilderness: Or, Getting Back to the Wrong Nature," in Uncommon Ground, 69.
16. William Alexander Percy, Lanterns on the Levee: Recollections of a Planter's Son (Baton Rouge, 1941; reprint, 1973), 3, 4, 24, 248.
17. Joe Englert, ed., The Great Disaster: Hurricane "Betsy," September 9, 1965 (Chalmette, La., 1965), 1.
18. See also U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Report on Hurricane Betsy (New Orleans, 1965), 1-13, 32.
19. "President Tours Hurricane Area," New York Times, 11 September 1965.
20. A similar project in the same location is under discussion now; see John Schwartz, "Full Flood Safety in New Orleans Could Take Billions and Decades," New York Times, 29 November 2005.
21. Fred Chatry of the corps' New Orleans District provided a helpful chronology of events. Sue Hawes, Corps of Engineers New Orleans District, interview by author, New Orleans, 1 November 1996; Barry Kohl, New Orleans Audubon Society, interview by author, New Orleans, 13 June 1996; Cornelia Carrier, "Expert: Lake's Productivity in Danger," New Orleans Times-Picayune, 19 November 1974.
22. John Fahey, "Pontchartrain: Cesspool or Playground? Environmentalists, Dredgers Differ," New Orleans Times-Picayune, 23 January 1975.
23. Luke Fontana, Save Our Wetlands, interview by author, New Orleans, 4-6 November 1996.
24. "Dredging Foes Win One Round," New Orleans Times-Picayune, 1 November 1974.
25. See also Fahey, "Pontchartrain: Cesspool or Playground?";
26. Cornelia Carrier, "Wetlands Dispute New Trial Denied," New Orleans Times-Picayune, 21 February 1975;
27. Cornelia Carrier, "Lake Plan Hit as Private Windfall," New Orleans Times-Picayune, 23 February 1975;
28. Gordon Gsell, "SOWL Files Suit against Lake Plan," New Orleans Times-Picayune, 6 December 1975;
29. John LaPlace, "Could a State Panel Save Pontchartrain?" New Orleans Times-Picayune, 25 March 1977;
30. Cornelia Carrier, "Louisiana Delegation Is Environment's Foe," New Orleans Times-Picayune, 15 June 1977;
31. and "Environmental Group Asks to Join Hurricane Plan Suit," New Orleans Times-Picayune, 7 December 1977.
32. Anders Wijkman and Lloyd Timberlake, Natural Disasters: Acts of God or Acts of Man? (London, 1984), 11.
33. Robert J. Guizerix, Corps of Engineers New Orleans District, interview by author, New Orleans, 19 June 1996.
34. See also "Reconsidering the Barriers," New Orleans Times-Picayune, 4 January 1978;
35. "Lake Study Falls Short," New Orleans Times-Picayune, 30 January 1978.
36. For a more detailed history of the dispute over Pontchartrain storm barriers, see Todd Shallat, "In the Wake of Hurricane Betsy," in Transforming New Orleans and Its Environs, ed. Craig Colten (Pittsburgh, 2000), 121-10.