Projects for Restoration
Anne-Morgan Simmons design editor
Protecting the Coast
Brogan Burns features editor Louisiana’s land loss crisis continues to erase the coast. “We need to protect, restore, and conserve every acre that we possibly can,” says Polly Glover, project manager of Restore or Retreat, a nonprofit dedicated to restoring the Louisiana coast.. Each generation is doing work to protect the coast from education, to […]
Communities on the Edge
Matt Santiago staff writer Communities along the coast are threatened by growing land loss. According to the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA), Louisiana has lost almost 2,000 square miles of land since the 1930s, with an additional 3,000 square miles of land potentially being lost in the next 50 years. But this isn’t just […]
The Business of Land Loss
Brogan Burns features editor On average flooding causes 15.2 billion dollars in damage annually, but the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority says as land around levee systems erodes that yearly average could increase to 24.3 billion dollars. The CPRA says that increase could be “catastrophic” in other areas of the economy. Economic troubles caused by […]
Louisiana’s Land Loss Crisis
Brogan Burns features editor Louisiana is home to the fastest-disappearing land mass in the US, stretching from Plaquemines and Lafourche parishes as far north as Point Coupee and home to over 600,000 people. The Louisiana coast has been experiencing this crisis for the better part of the last century and likely longer than that. Between […]