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Early settlers on this continent found the forests and grasslands
interspersed with swamps, ponds, and marshes, and these wetlands were
perhaps the most productive of all wildlife areas. But now 55% of
America's wetlands have been drained and we still lose more than 400,000
acres of wetlands every year.
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The Oxbow is a broad floodplain where the Great Miami River empties
into the Ohio. This area where three states - Ohio, Indiana, and Kentucky
- come together, is near Lawrenceburg, Indiana, seventeen miles downstream
from Cincinnati.
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email comments and suggestions to Kani Meyer at kaniau@yahoo.com
Last
updated: 07/27/2008
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In the summer of 1985, political and business leaders announced
plans to create a major new port authority and build a 700-acre commercial
barge shipping center on this floodplain.
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