rachel edmonds

Recommended reading:

Horne, Jed.  Breach of Faith: Hurricane Katrina and the Near Death of a Great American City. Random House, 2006.

McPhee, John.  The Control of Nature.  Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1989.

McPhee, John. Encounters with the Archdruid. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1971.

Tidwell, Mike.  Bayou Farewell: The Rich Life and Tragic Death of Louisiana’s Cajun Coast. Pantheon, 2003.

Fears of flooding in a fortified city

17 Feb 2010, The Advocate.

“Louisiana’s Mulch Madness.”

Mother Jones.  March/April 2008.  This article features my cypress swamp tour guide and Atchafalaya Basinkeeper, Dean Wilson.

Mountaintop removal

Colbert Report video clip on MTR