Wham Brake

USA / Louisiana / Swartz /

wetland, marsh

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The Wham is a 5500-acre seasonally flooded marsh that was reconfigured in the 1950s as a reservoir to help control floodings by the Army Corps of Engineers. It also and served as the emergency water source for the local paper mills. With their closures in 2012, the brake was donated to the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries. It now functions as a major wetland habitat for waterfowl.

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Coordinates: 32°35'49"N 91°56'19"W

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