Associated Press: In the heyday of oil exploration on Louisiana's coast after World War II, companies dug about 10,000 miles of canals as straight as Kansas highways through a natural world that's unraveling today - due, in part, to those canals.
Soon, about 16.5 miles of canals are to be filled in the Barataria Preserve - making a small dent in a massive problem.
Interior Secretary Sally Jewell on Monday toured water plant-choked canals in the alligator-and-bird preserve by airboat and called the work crucial;...