2012 Master Plan for La Coast

[Duck Butter]

This is from the Office of Coastal Protection and Restoration, I got this email on a birdwatching website, and figured the fishing/hunting community should know about this as well.


From the website:

The Master Plan will recommend specific actions for saving our coast. In order to make the right choices, the state and its partners must consider the many faces of Louisiana’s coastal crisis. “One size fits all” solutions will not work for the variety of marsh, swamp, cheniers, cities, suburbs, and industrial areas that are part of the coast. It’s also true that we cannot succeed by building one small project at a time. Instead, we must use a regional approach that takes the needs of the entire system into account. That is why the Master Plan will propose a series of projects that can reduce flooding risks and rebuild wetlands on a large scale, while also considering the diverse needs of communities. By using science to consider the benefits our coast provides and the things we must do to sustain and expand those benefits, we can make sound investments for our future.

Here is a link to the survey

http://coastal.louisiana.gov/index.c...p=home&pid=136

[Bluechip]

Thanks for posting...

[Duck Butter]

Obviously the funding is not there this year, but SOON once we start getting oil royalties the money will be there for the restoration. A plan is needed, and as smart as the scientists are, they often overlook the simplest things, and reaching out to stakeholders will get ideas from many different angles. Obviously you can't please everyone, but we can at least keep the money out of the general fund and keep it where it needs to go

[evis102]

So when we spend our tax money for this we get access to hunt and fish right? Like say that big levee on the east side of Big Lake, Grosse Savanne is going to allow public access right? I mean the public paid for a levee so they could hold more freshwater thus have more ducks. So why shouldn't the public get to hunt?

[PaulMyers]

Of course we do, just not there!

EVO

[evis102]

Or the other 100's of thousands of acres of land that our tax dollars are about to improve.

[Duck Butter]

Originally Posted by evis102

Or the other 100's of thousands of acres of land that our tax dollars are about to improve.

That is what the survey was posted for, was to get more stakeholders in to vote for what needs to be done. Not that it will or that the majority will rule, but I like to think that it will Like I said before, many of these scientists overthink things and the simplest ideas which is why they need input from the general public.
Sidenote:
Wife went to the wetlands center with her class and they were talking erosion of the coast and brought in top scientists from around the world and put them into teams, each team was given maps of the coast and the erosion rates and all were asked what should be done. Each of the teams came back and every single one said the very first thing to be done was to breach the levee. They alll proposed breaches within 5 miles of the other teams. Unfortunately this likely will never happen, so new ideas are needed. Here is a video of some land that was 'mysteriously' built near Venice that was unknown by the scientists, they still don't know how it happened and what to do with this finding so let us tell them

http://www.louisianasportsman.com/details.php?id=3261

[evis102]

Its hard to hold mother nature down!

[beccrossee]

I took the survey. Thanks again for putting it up.