re: Gating canals in houma area

Your tax dollars are saving the marsh so that it provides storm protection for further inland land. Not so you can fish it. Just as others have said that it is used for levees, but you can't just go do what you want on a levee (someone has the right to that land, go try driving up and down the levee for a while, someone is going to stop you). Hell, your tax dollars pay for the town hall, state capital, white house....let's just go walk into those places and use them up. Tax dollars subsidize farmland. You should be able to go pick all the produce you want for free.