MAPPING DAPL
BY ZACH MORTICE
The DAPL crosses two watershed systems. Map by Alma and Friends.
The recently completed Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) will run for 1,172 miles from northwest North Dakota to downstate Illinois, pumping 450,000 barrels of oil per day and costing $3.8 billion to build. Those are superlative numbers that can blot out the complexity and vulnerability of the landscapes and watersheds the pipeline traverses. Making these facets of the DAPL clear is the goal of maps created by an anonymous group of designers calling themselves Alma and Friends. Their work has been collected and packaged by the Los Angeles public television station KCET with a series of articles on the ecological consequences of the pipeline.
These maps detail regional watersheds, individual bodies of water, indigenous lands, the blotches of human settlement that dot this stretch of the Great Plains and midwestern prairie, and past and potential oil spills. Collected into a series of seven interactive maps by KCET, these diagrams demonstrate the various layers of ecological and cultural damage made possible by construction of the DAPL. Indigenous lands along the pipeline route in North Dakota and South Dakota. Map by Alma and Friends.
The initiator of Alma and Friends, a landscape architect working in Los Angeles, says her involvement started with a ?visceral? reaction to the election of President Trump. (Alma and Friends members requested anonymity given the controversial nature of the pipeline a...
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