Exactly. Beginning with the breakup of the Great Log Jams in the 1800s, this area has been extensively hacked by humans to do something it naturally does not do

Exactly. Beginning with the breakup of the Great Log Jams in the 1800s, this area has been extensively hacked by humans to do something it naturally does not do. At some point, the river is going to go back to the way it's supposed to be, Army Corps of Engineers be damned. c/f http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1987/02/23/atchafalaya http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1987/02/23/atchafalaya