Imagine how much in taxes was wasted because they had no clue to what was there origially. IMHO, you would need high grade topographic maps like the military uses and good geology reports. I don’t think they were in existence at the time. I wonder how good were the surveys that George Washington and his contemporaries made?
It was a huge farm and the farmer had...and correctly so....drained his land and made the water flow...and that is as it should be.
Wait till we have a few deaths from mosquitos. Many of the wetland plants effect asthma sufferers. Beware....
We did have a "poplar tree" asthma lawcase...The tree lost...
Leave it to the NYT to make the dynamic, intriguing topic of silt boring.
Exactly....This is an extremely interesting article.