but also actively sealing up the river from many of its natural outlets. The Army engineers working on the levees were soldiers, not scientists, and the "levees-only policy" remained uncontested ...

Controlling nature by bulldozing dirt and pouring concrete has long been the guiding vision of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. For 250 years that ethos inspired both awe and disgust. “In my ...

When we think about flood management, higher stop banks, stronger levees and concrete ... cutting them off from their natural floodplains. Floodplain river systems have historically been dynamic ...