Back to Carbondale across a Little River.
View Larger Map Kate and I visited my Mom and brother’s family in Conway, AR for a couple of days. We drove back through northeast Arkansas and Missouri’s Bootheel. The cotton harvest is in full swing there. I worked for Missouri’s Department of...
New Orleans levees, St. Louis and the COE
Friday the AP reported on a year-long study (update: at link’s dead, try this one) it’s done of flood prevention work in New Orleans and public perception of the hazard. They claim to have tracked a pattern of public misperception, political jockeying and...
Gulf dead zone may be here for good.
Lots of press buzz today, articles here, and here. This article talks about the role of Midwestern agriculture in all this. Researchers think the zone may be with us for good now. Here’s a NOAA summary of what led up to this, with historical data and nice...