This is one of three shoreline protection products being tested along Louisiana’s coastline in the area of Vermilion Bay and Weeks Bay. State and federal coastal restoration agencies will test the effectiveness of these measures over the next three years in order to find alternatives to rock placement along the shore.
Credit: USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service
Louisiana’s master plan to rebuild the coast came with a bold goal: to halt the wetlands loss that sees an average of a football field eroding away from the coast every hour.
The best-case scenario predicted no net loss of wetlands by 2032 and actual land gains by 2042.
But new predictions of increased sea-level rise have scuttled those ambitions.
“We don’t […]
