LOUISIANA'S COASTAL CRISIS HITS YAHOO NEWS
Last October, Yahoo's Assignment Earth headed down to NOLA to get the story about Louisiana's coast- the problem, the solutions, and a sense of the urgency.
I worked with producer Peter White to get the story, which has finally shown up!
It has some great interviews with University of New Orleans Coastal Geology expert Shea Penland, Tulane University's Enviro Law Guru Oliver Houck (check out his provacative "Can We Save New Orleans?" treatise here), and a really cool flyover of the MRGO piloted by the Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation's Executive Director Carlton Dufrechou (if you look carefully you'll see a telling shot of degraded wetlands with the telling 'wheel spoke' impressions left behind from dragging cypress trees through the marsh as they logged out these critical natural storm defenses).
It also features interviews with Louisiana's official point people on our restoration efforts - Sidney Coffee and Randy Hanchey. Sidney, who as Chair of the Coastal Protection & Restoration Authority (CPRA) recently delivered to the State the draft Integrated Ecosystem Restoration and Hurricane Protection - Louisiana's Comprehensive Master Plan for a Sustainable Coast. Hearings on this document and plan are this week - scroll down for a post with the dates and times - I'll be heading out to UNO tonight to offer my $.02, and hear what others have to say.
Hopefully, news pieces such as this Yahoo video will help tell the nation what's occuring on our coast, and how critical grassroots support for this fix is.
Aaron Viles is the GRN's Campaign Director
Last October, Yahoo's Assignment Earth headed down to NOLA to get the story about Louisiana's coast- the problem, the solutions, and a sense of the urgency.
I worked with producer Peter White to get the story, which has finally shown up!
It has some great interviews with University of New Orleans Coastal Geology expert Shea Penland, Tulane University's Enviro Law Guru Oliver Houck (check out his provacative "Can We Save New Orleans?" treatise here), and a really cool flyover of the MRGO piloted by the Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation's Executive Director Carlton Dufrechou (if you look carefully you'll see a telling shot of degraded wetlands with the telling 'wheel spoke' impressions left behind from dragging cypress trees through the marsh as they logged out these critical natural storm defenses).
It also features interviews with Louisiana's official point people on our restoration efforts - Sidney Coffee and Randy Hanchey. Sidney, who as Chair of the Coastal Protection & Restoration Authority (CPRA) recently delivered to the State the draft Integrated Ecosystem Restoration and Hurricane Protection - Louisiana's Comprehensive Master Plan for a Sustainable Coast. Hearings on this document and plan are this week - scroll down for a post with the dates and times - I'll be heading out to UNO tonight to offer my $.02, and hear what others have to say.
Hopefully, news pieces such as this Yahoo video will help tell the nation what's occuring on our coast, and how critical grassroots support for this fix is.
Aaron Viles is the GRN's Campaign Director
Labels: Flood Washington, Member Groups, MRGO, Wetlands
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