Southeast LA land loss news

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Originally Posted by specknation

Small you are right ,facts do not lie come down to Dularge, Hopedale, Buras, Leeville etc. and please show me where the marsh is coming back. I have come to the fact that as long as it does not effect my fishing I am rolling with it. And I will say again only one way to save southeast louisiana marsh is to get rid of the levees from New Orleans south to the gulf , but that is not going to happen. So go to the meetings plant the grass get the Christmas trees, do the tiny diversion projects and whatever makes you feel like you are helping. Bottom line go look at the sat. maps from the past 20 years and you will see that southeast marshes are going at a crazy rate.

I never said I disagreed with you on that. And AGAIN, it does not work everywhere. Look back to some of my last posts in this thread. The SOUTHEAST is an entirely different beast. Most of the soils there are organic. When you lose vegetation on an organic soil, you are going to lose soil quickly. You cannot revegetate what is not there. AGAIN, it only works when it is well planned. Is any of this registering?

PLANNING IS EVERYTHING!!! You can have the greatest idea in the world, but poor execution will cause it to fail. The WEST side of the state where I work is completely different than the EAST. What we do here does not necessarily work there,and vice-versa.

With all that being said, there are new methods of revegetation being employed on that side of the state that have been successful in the west, and it has nothing to do with soils. Floating Islands.

AGAIN, I never said the marsh was coming back down in those areas. Everything you are saying, I already know. I've been researching this for quite some time now. And I have never used any of those places as examples of successful revegetation projects. Fact is, I agree with you. Only one way to reverse wetland loss in southeast Louisiana--take down the levees. Won't happen, so what can be done is being done. Whether you or anyone else disagrees with it, is IRRELEVANT. It's either do what you can, or sit back and watch it all disappear.

Fact of the matter is, you aren't going to save things by trying to revert back to the natural state. The natural state of things is history. What is there now is as natural as your going to get. There are large scale diversions in the plans now, the likes that have not been employed before. You're not going to knock a levee down, as you said. But you can punch pretty good size holes in it and let some sediment flow.