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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

> No Okefenokee Swamp.

I wonder about the Delta area before the dikes were built.

For those who don't know, the confluence of the Sacramento River from  
the north with the San Joaquin River from the south has contiguous to  
it a large area called the Delta that was tamed with dikes, the water  
pumped out, and the below-water-level islands thereby created have  
rich peat land valuable for farming.

Seems to me that before the dikes were built, that area may have been  
a huge swamp.