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The Atchafalaya, the largest swamp in America
Butte La Rose, Louisiana
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A million acres of bottomland hardwood and cypress between two levees, the largest wetland in the country, kept as a designated floodway to take the Mississippi's overflow away from Baton Rouge and New Orleans. Crawfishermen, houseboat families and a whole way of living were pushed out of it as it was engineered, and it still absorbs whatever the river is told to give up.
That was 1 of the hidden places.
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