Louisiana's Wetlands

Listen Up

• From May, 1997 comes this prescient NPR report by Debbie Elliot on the struggle to prevent the Louisiana coastline (8:29) from sinking into the sea, a problem exacerbated by large-scale engineering efforts to prevent the Mississippi River from flooding.
  
  
• Here is a four-part series from America Radioworks, Nature's Revenge (56:01):
  
  • Sinking into the Sea (11:30)
  • An Unlikely Activist (12: 32)
  • The Plan to Save the Coast (11:47)
  • Hurricane Risk for New Orleans (20:12)

Write Now

• A key part of large environmental issues like coastal restoration and global warming entails a whole new sense of time – having to move beyond questions about today, tomorrow and next week, to ones about generations, especially the world we will leave to our children. Describe times you have experienced such long-term thinking?
• What long-term environmental issues most directly affect your community?

Read On

• More from Wikipedia on Louisiana wetlands