Mar
20
2013
Written by Kristy Christiansen for Country Road Magazine, March 2013. View original post here.
Saving Louisiana's wetlands one paddle trip at a time.
There was a slight coolness in the air as we watched our guide, Lindsay Pick, methodically untie the knots securing our...
Mar
20
2013
Originally posted on March 8th, 2013. View the original post here.
Thirty-five miles south of New Orleans, the silt-laden Mississippi River intermittently rolls through a 150-foot gap that started opening on the river’s east bank during the Mardi Gras 2011 flood....
Feb
24
2013
Feb
13
2013
Originally rinted in the February 2013 Natural Awakening Magazine.
Lost Lands Environmental Tours is a new company offering boat tours of the area's coastal wetlands as a combination of eco-tourism, education and recreation. This new venture is working with environmental...
Feb
13
2013
By Millie Ball for the Los Angeles Times on February 1, 2013. View the original post here.
NEW ORLEANS — One thing you can say about New Orleanians: They know how to punt.
When the date for Sunday's Super Bowl XLVII was set,...
Feb
04
2013
Originally posted on January 27th, 2013 in The Lens. View the original post here.
The RESTORE Act allows 80 percent of Clean Water Act fines resulting from the disaster to be used for ecosystem and economic restoration of the gulf. Current law would send the...
Jan
31
2013
Originally posted on January 27th, 2013. View the original post here.
The message I'm talking about is the one that goes like this: The federal government is the problem. We need to reduce the federal government and get its agencies out...
Jan
31
2013
Originally posted on January 13th, 2013. View the original post here.
WARNING: This column contains science. It might be considered inappropriate or offensive by certain members of our congressional delegation and others who call themselves conservative. Ideological discretion is advised.
The South Louisiana...
Jan
03
2013
Originally posted on December 16th, 2012. View the original post here.
At a recent program on our (currently losing) fight to keep Southeast Louisiana from being swallowed by the expanding Gulf, panelists were discussing all the usual items -- marsh creation,...
