What always gets me about learning about settler colonialism is how once you learn about it you cannot unsee the violence to the land itself. My home state was previously nearly 100% wetlands, apart…
There is a project on the northwest side of Indianapolis at Fishback Creek where they are/have reclaiming it to its natural wetland state, from being cornfields. They had to go through the field and bust up all of the clay field drain pipes and then they let nature do the rest. I haven’t checked it out since around 2005, it might be time to go see how it’s changed.
They are obviously from Indiana.
There is a project on the northwest side of Indianapolis at Fishback Creek where they are/have reclaiming it to its natural wetland state, from being cornfields. They had to go through the field and bust up all of the clay field drain pipes and then they let nature do the rest. I haven’t checked it out since around 2005, it might be time to go see how it’s changed.