Cottonwoods in Concrete: A Call for Collaborative Survival among Ruins

10 Responses

  1. Russ says:

    Maybe next time, thanks to articles like these, they will leave the cottonwoods in place.

  2. Eunice Blavascunas says:

    Thanks Nina for helping those of us in Walla Walla better see and reflect on the place we live in!

  3. Suzanne Knapp says:

    What a well written article. I wonder what a truly collaborative solution would look like? The calamitous nature of floods make the government want to go overboard to prevent them. The flood I remember is 1996 where the frozen ground couldn’t absorb over two feet of quick melting snow. Was the current design the reason why downtown didn’t suffer traumatic damage?

  4. Bob Carson says:

    Nina, well done! You got it right: one-size-fits-all for levees according to the Army Corps of Engineers. Damn the shade, damn the wildlife, damn the aesthetics. (Damn the fish; don’t breach the Snake River dams.)The Army has the same attitude about military cemeteries: they all have to look like Arlington, so cut down all the trees (example, Fort Stevens near Astoria, Oregon).

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