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Originally Posted by Smalls

I never said I disagreed with you on that. And AGAIN, it does not work everywhere. Look back to some of my last posts in this thread. The SOUTHEAST is an entirely different beast. Most of the soils there are organic. When you lose vegetation on an organic soil, you are going to lose soil quickly. You cannot revegetate what is not there. AGAIN, it only works when it is well planned. Is any of this registering?

PLANNING IS EVERYTHING!!! You can have the greatest idea in the world, but poor execution will cause it to fail. The WEST side of the state where I work is completely different than the EAST. What we do here does not necessarily work there,and vice-versa.

With all that being said, there are new methods of revegetation being employed on that side of the state that have been successful in the west, and it has nothing to do with soils. Floating Islands.

AGAIN, I never said the marsh was coming back down in those areas. Everything you are saying, I already know. I've been researching this for quite some time now. And I have never used any of those places as examples of successful revegetation projects. Fact is, I agree with you. Only one way to reverse wetland loss in southeast Louisiana--take down the levees. Won't happen, so what can be done is being done. Whether you or anyone else disagrees with it, is IRRELEVANT. It's either do what you can, or sit back and watch it all disappear.

Fact of the matter is, you aren't going to save things by trying to revert back to the natural state. The natural state of things is history. What is there now is as natural as your going to get. There are large scale diversions in the plans now, the likes that have not been employed before. You're not going to knock a levee down, as you said. But you can punch pretty good size holes in it and let some sediment flow.

That were you drop the ball Smalls, I worked for LDWF and we where responsible for lifting and closing the Bohemia diversion structure located in Plaq. parish. Quoting you "you can punch good size holes in it and let some sediment flow" lets me know you have not a clue of what you are talking about. This diversion structure was a huge hole that let miss. river water run at a crazy rate, the effects of this structure was virtually 0.