Lowlines, Episode 2: Floodlines
PLACE:The lower half of Louisiana is a puzzle of waterways, swamps, canals and levees. A once complex and resilient ecosystem carved through, for generations, by commerce. From a plane the land looks like a mass of fresh scabs – little flakey islands floating in the water for as far as the eye can see.
And at the bottom of the map is Plaquemines Parish – the ‘bird’s foot’. This area was fertile farm land, alive with life but place names are literally dropping off the map. Down here, the ground is squelchy, watery, loose and the land disappearing so fast, so they say, that 30 football field…
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