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The Conservancy and USFWS planned to breach the levee in 2009 to restore the connection between the river and the floodplain that is not only critical to the long-term health of the forest but to the fish and other aquatic life in the Ouachita River.

Impish Fragrant They set up straight-line ditches to keep water out of the fields. But the agricultural potential of Mollicy Farms never materialized.

In 2009, the Conservancy and USFWS began undertaking what is believed to be the largest floodplain reconnection project in the Mississippi River Basin and one of the largest ever undertaken in the entire United States.