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		<title>Kicking the Inner Harbor Navigation Canal anthill&#8230;</title>
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by Len Bahr, PhD*
I recently posted an article on an innovative suggestion by a highly credible hydraulic engineer that could benefit the entire Pontchartrain basin. The concept is that the replacement of the lock in the Inner Harbor Navigation Canal (IHNC) offers a golden opportunity to convey river water into the basin to help [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lacoastpost.com/blog/?p=21310</link>
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		<title>Mitigating for MRGO with the Inner Harbor Navigation Canal</title>
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by Len Bahr, PhD*
After years of brainstorming about effective ways to reconnect the Mississippi River to its dying delta I rarely hear truly novel ideas. Navigation and environmental stakeholders traditionally find themselves at loggerheads, so it is even rarer to hear an idea that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lacoastpost.com/blog/?p=21154</link>
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		<title>Pricing nature: are delta resources fungible?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Len Bahr, PhD*

On February 27 at a coastal Workshop in New Orleans, Garret Graves, Louisiana&#8217;s top coastal official, announced a new state strategy for coastal planning that envisions, among other things,** pricing in dollar terms the coastal resources that are increasingly at risk as south Louisiana goes underwater. A monetary metric would presumably be used [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lacoastpost.com/blog/?p=20868</link>
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		<title>March coastal scuttlebutt: daily miniposts</title>
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March 9
Mark Schleifstein’s article in today’s The Times-Picayune describes the unusually cold and wet approaching Spring in south Louisiana, resulting from a strong El Nino condition produced by warmer than average surface waters in the Pacfic Ocean.
Schleifstein reminds readers that:
It&#8217;s…been an unusually wet three months, with 25.92 inches of rain recorded at Louis [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lacoastpost.com/blog/?p=21096</link>
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		<title>Mekong and Mississippi deltas: defoliation vs. &#8216;refoliation&#8217;</title>
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by Len Bahr, PhD*
In July 2005 I had a memorable opportunity to attend an international river conference in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. My trip was funded by the US Agency for International Development (AID), which also supported travel for a Minnesotan named Tim Sullivan, then head of the Mississippi River Basin Alliance (MRBA).
I recalled [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lacoastpost.com/blog/?p=20880</link>
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		<title>Can the 4th estate effectively watchdog restoration of the 3rd coast?</title>
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 by Len Bahr, PhD*
During the 9+ years left in this decade, two systems of global significance face huge challenges: (1) the so-called Third Coast (Mississippi River delta and adjacent northern gulf coast); and (2) the Fourth Estate, as the overall print and broadcast journalism enterprise is known.
As a coastal scientist, a new but very serious [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lacoastpost.com/blog/?p=20573</link>
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		<title>Saving the Mississippi R. delta is a 3D issue</title>
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by Len Bahr, PhD*
The most expensive and successful movie of all time is Avatar, filmed in 3D and likely to win at least one Oscar this year. Like the movie, the Mississippi River delta has three dimensions, as I noted in a recent post.
My three modest goals for this post are to remind: (1) lay [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lacoastpost.com/blog/?p=19473</link>
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		<title>Criticizing coastal policy is not unpatriotic!</title>
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By Len Bahr, PhD*
Since retiring from the Governor’s Office in September &#8216;08 I&#8217;ve been inspired to devote considerable time and effort questioning how effectively my tax dollars and yours are being spent to fix the most threatened coast on the continent. My judgment is obviously subjective but my motives are pure and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lacoastpost.com/blog/?p=20545</link>
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		<title>CO2 regulation and ethanol subsidies fuel state/federal disputes</title>
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by Len Bahr, PhD*
Based on experience gained during my long tenure at the Governor&#8217;s Office of Coastal Activities, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is the federal agency most supportive of coastal restoration on a large scale. That&#8217;s why I&#8217;m totally dumbfounded by EPA&#8217;s policy decision to promote the expansion of corn-based [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lacoastpost.com/blog/?p=20451</link>
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		<title>New coastal plan NOT ready for prime time!</title>
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Editor&#8217;s note: The Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA) has released what is arguably the most important official state document of the year, the draft Fiscal Year 2011 Annual Plan &#8211; integrated ecosystem restoration and hurricane protection in coastal Louisiana.
The final document* must be approved during the upcoming regular session. In my opinion, this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lacoastpost.com/blog/?p=20374</link>
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