Hurricane Isaac Is a Wake-Up Call for Coastal Restoration
- According to the U.S. Geological Survey, an average of 34 square miles of land, mostly marsh, has disappeared each year from the south Louisiana landscape during the last 50 years.
- Experts estimate that if nothing is done to reverse this trend, Louisiana could lose another 700 square miles of coastal wetland by 2050.
Published September 20, 2012
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