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The impacts of 2011 induced levee breaches on agricultural lands of Mississippi River Valley

Kenneth R. Olson and Lois Wright Morton
Journal of Soil and Water Conservation January 2012, 67 (1) 5A-10A; DOI: https://doi.org/10.2489/jswc.67.1.5A
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