Saving Louisiana? The Battle for Coastal Wetlands

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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’s going to 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 Regulate 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 consider that the real challenge lies in determining what society in point of fact wants, in order 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. Any individual 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.

Bill Streever is a research biologist in Eagle River, Alaska, and used to be formerly at the Waterways Experiment Station (Wetlands Branch) in Vicksburg, Mississippi. He’s the writer of Bringing Back the Wetlands (1999), and his work has seemed in such periodicals as Wetlands, Journal of Environmental Management, Estuaries, and American Midland Naturalist.


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