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Ginger Strand, contributing editor to This Land Press, discusses Oklahoma's comfort with engineering our environment. Strand explains how the Arkansas river has been altered into a series of lakes and reports on how people in Tulsa feel about this transformation.
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Ginger Strand, contributing editor to This Land Press, discusses Oklahoma's comfort with engineering our environment. Strand explains how the Arkansas river has been altered into a series of lakes and reports on how people in Tulsa feel about this transformation.
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