Flooding farms in order to flood-proof cities: The tricky balance of controlling the Red River

Farmers whose property will find itself in the middle of a multibillion-dollar man-made flood plain say there has to be a better way to protect the 230,000 people living downstream in Fargo, N.D., and Moorhead, Minn., from the Red River.

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