Tag Archives: Land Subsidence
Simulating the Holocene (Advancing Deltas IV)
[Map of Land Subsidence occurring in the Sacramento Delta since it was leveed and drained. Image altered and borrowed from the Envisioning Futures for the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Report] While in the process of exploring anthropogenic wetlands in the Upper Klamath Basin, a hydrologist with the Bureau of Land Management pointed me towards some interesting […]
Life Rafts and Leviathan™
[Biohabitat's floating habitat mattresses made of 100% recycled plastic bottles, seen here filled with soil and plants by a team of volunteers and ready for deployment as experimental land makers near the Isle de Jean Charles, Louisiana. Image source] As recently reported by America’s Wetland Foundation: “Hundreds of volunteers helped launch 187 “floating islands” in […]
