Environment
BPF promotes environmental regulatory reform and actively engages the bureaucracy regulating flooding on the Mississippi River. BPF believes mitigating the flooding by using Old River Control Complex would give Mississippians back their privately owned land.
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Dereliction of Duty
H.R. McMaster’s 1997 book, Dereliction of Duty, exposed our feckless losing strategy in the Viet Nam War disaster. We didn’t fight to win. McMaster says President Johnson and Secretary of Defense McNamara micromanaged the war to elect and keep Johnson in power. Their strategy of limited response and constraining rules of engagement put our military on…
Mississippi River Commission Testimony: Kelley Williams in Baton Rouge Apr 2017
I appreciate this opportunity to testify again. Last year I talked about flooding at our farm in the Natchez reach 20 miles above the Old River Control Complex. Today I’m talking about flooding in the Baton Rouge reach below Old River. I hope to show that ORCC can reduce the height, duration, and frequency of floods – and to persuade you that it should.
No January flood this year.
The record January flood was unusual. But major floods aren’t. Mississippi has had seven in the last ten years.
The veins of America: Stunning map shows every river basin in the US
A stunning new map shows the complex network of rivers and streams in the contiguous United States.
Priming a flood.
The river is primed for another major flood. It has a record 16 foot head start. But there is still time to reduce this – and the odds of a major flood.
Land Owners’ Meeting in Natchez July 2016
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