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Northern legislators form “Yankee caucus,” will file “the coast is toast” amendment shifting coastline to BR!
The upcoming 2009 fiscal session of the Louisiana legislature, which opens at noon on April 27, promises to be as rancorous as any in the history of the state....
Louisiana fish, cat food and related issues.
Graphic from NY Times by Ward Schumaker I’m not a fishery scientist, so this post is partly offered as a kind of rhetorical question to my colleagues...
Distinguished dissenter on the implications of climate change
Freeman Dyson (Eugene Richards for The New York Times) With serious misgivings, but as a devoted supporter of the open discussion of all sides of technical...
Marsh madness!
coastal mash dynamics Forgive me but I just had to use this title before the end of the month! I call your attention to several new studies on the responses...
Spanish Lake basin faces dual threats of drainage and BR loop tollway: coastal implications ignored.
The stumps of baldcypress trees in this photo in the upper portion of the Spanish Lake system were alive before Andrew Jackson shut down Bayou Manchac. (Photo...
Fargo, Dallas, New Orleans and the Corps of Engineers
Fargo, ND 1897 flood While working on a post related to coastal economics I changed my topic this morning upon hearing Steve Inskeep’s interview with...
Modern significance of historic river forts
Recent explorers at Fort St. Philip. Photo by Rusty Costanza / The Times-Picayune Three days ago (March 22) the Times-Picayune carried a front page article by Paul...
Huey Long, Bobby Jindal and coastal science in Louisiana
Huey P. Long, 40th governor of Louisiana Bobby Jindal, 55th governor of Louisiana An insightful op/ed by Bob Mann in the March 21...
King Milling a fitting winner of Times-Picayune Loving Cup award
King Milling with his good friend and coastal associate Karen Gautreaux on March 9, 2009, when King received another notable award for coastal conservation from...
Global climate change again: Obama appointment and reports from NRC, NOAA, ICLEI
The Washington Post carries a feature story about the latest in a series of key appointees to the Obama administration that underlines the commitment of the president...
