The Army Corps of Engineers is on a mission to chop down every tree in the country that grows within 15 feet of a levee  including oaks and sycamores in Louisiana, willows in Oklahoma and cottonwoods in California.
An Associated Press survey of levee projects nationwide shows that the agency wants to eliminate all trees along more than 100,000 miles of levees. But environmentalists and some civil engineers insist the trees pose little or no risk and actually help stabilize levee soil.
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Army Corps of Engineers Wants to Fell 100,000 Miles of Trees
[url=https://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31191870/]News report that the Army Corps of Engineers wants to chop down all trees that border levees[/url] for fear of root damage, even though they admit that a tree has never been responsible for a levee breaking.
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