There is a plan afoot to try and restore the ecology of California's Central Valley flood plains in order to try and avoid a catastrophic collapse of the human engineered levee and channel system that now exists. Fascinating and exciting, it shows that we can live with the natural world - if we want to.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/02/u...lain.html?pagewanted=all?src=tp&smid=fb-share
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/02/u...lain.html?pagewanted=all?src=tp&smid=fb-share