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The article reports that Muddy Waters and Chrissie Hynde, among other musicians, have played guitars made of "swamp ash," a lightweight wood that grows in Mississippi River lowlands and gives a warm, clear sound and seasonal flooding exacerbated by climate change. It also mentions lumber companies to reach standing trees as well as the looming threat of an invasive tree-boring beetle and expect global warming to continue to make floods worse.

Describes a $8-billion restoration plan for the Florida Everglades involving the United States Army Corps of Engineers. Impact of canals and levees built in the 1950s on the marshland; Obstacles to the restoration of the ecosystem, including the Everglades Agricultural Area; Criticism of the plan by scientists such as Stuart Pimm of the University of Tennessee.