Salt water is inundating coastal Louisiana, transforming precious wetlands into backwaters of the Gulf of Mexico. Science may hold the key to reversing the problem. But what will the cost be? And will the plan work? These are the quandaries reported in Saving Louisiana? The Battle for Coastal Wetlands. In what is unquestionably the most ambitious ecosystem management and restoration program ever proposed, calls have been made to save the Louisiana coast, with a price tag of fourteen billion dollars. And how can science ...
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Salt water is inundating coastal Louisiana, transforming precious wetlands into backwaters of the Gulf of Mexico. Science may hold the key to reversing the problem. But what will the cost be? And will the plan work? These are the quandaries reported in Saving Louisiana? The Battle for Coastal Wetlands. In what is unquestionably the most ambitious ecosystem management and restoration program ever proposed, calls have been made to save the Louisiana coast, with a price tag of fourteen billion dollars. And how can science contribute to the rescue? From the Mississippi River's Old River Control Structure to the pipeline canals of the Gulf's oil fields to the capitol in Baton Rouge, Saving Louisiana? follows scientists, conservationists, and politicians, as they persistently ask the same question: Can Louisiana's coastline be saved? For some experts, technical uncertainty impedes progress. For others, bureaucracy and special interests block what they see as the right path. Still others believe that the real challenge lies in determining what society really wants, so that ecosystem restoration becomes a balance of dollars against choices. Saving Louisiana? builds a story of doubt and discord that captures the technical and human drama of ecosystem restoration and management. Anyone intrigued by the big ecosystem restoration projects underway in the Florida Everglades, the Chesapeake Bay, the Puget Sound, and elsewhere will find this account of Louisiana's morass compelling and cautionary. Streever says science alone cannot save Louisiana's wetlands without attention to and appreciation of the many proposals and controversies afloat on the state's marshes and bayous.
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Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 189 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. LCCN 2001026042 Type of material Book Personal name Streever, Bill. Main title Saving Louisiana? : the battle for coastal wetlands / Bill Streever. Published/Created Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, c2001. Description ix, 189 p. : ill.; 24 cm. ISBN 1578063299 (cloth: alk. paper) 1578063485 (pbk. : alk. paper) LC classification QH76.5. L8 S77 2001 Contents Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgments ix--The End of Deltaic Birth? 3--Multidimensional Thinking and the Louisiana Coast 18--Gaining Ground in the Atchafalaya 46--Watching the Marsh Sink 64--Educational Fishing 83--Good Business 100--Upriver 115--Living in the Bayou 134--Contaminated Paradise 154--Lessons fTom Louisiana 170--Notes 181--Index 187. Subjects Wetland restoration--Louisiana. Notes Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-185) and index. Dewey class no. 333.91/8153/09763 Geographic area code n-us-la
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