Louisiana Wetlands
by Diana Mary Sharpton
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Title
Louisiana Wetlands
Artist
Diana Mary Sharpton
Medium
Photograph - Digital Photography
Description
This is called a drive by picture. Traveling between Texas and Louisiana on i10 outside of Alexandria, Louisiana, I found this swampy area reaching out to the freeway. The sunlight hitting the brilliant green algae made me stop and not pass up the chance to capture what I saw.
The Environmental Protection Agency defines wetlands as "those areas that are inundated or saturated by surface or groundwater at a frequency and duration water to support, and that under normal circumstances do support, a prevalence of vegetation typically adapted for life in saturated soil conditions (e.g. swamps, bogs, fens, marshes, and estuaries)." Different wetland types arise due to a few key factors, primarily: water levels, fertility, natural disturbance and salinity. Around Lake Pontchartrain, for example, these few factors produce wetlands including bottomland hardwoods, cypress swamp, freshwater marsh and brackish marsh. High levels of flooding reduce the abundance of trees, leaving four principal marsh types: saline, brackish, intermediate and fresh.
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May 20th, 2020
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