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Environmental groups are seeking to undo a decision by the Environmental Protection Agency that handed Florida officials primary regulatory authority over the state’s wetlands 
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Early this year, I drove from Arnaudville, Louisiana, to Morgan City, hoping to walk where I’d heard there was land. Arnaudville is in Cajun country, in the southern part of the state. Morgan City…
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The Trump administration has finished a new rule that rolls back environmental controls on many wetlands and intermittent streams, delivering a win to rural landowners.
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When communities boost their flood protections, they push additional flood risk onto their neighbors.
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The word nutria conjures up a less-than-appetizing image in South Louisiana.
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For the community of Jean Lafitte, the question is less whether it will succumb to the sea than when — and how much the public should invest in artificially extending its life.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
Great telling of the current situation in Louisiana via this partnership between NOLA.com and the NYTimes
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#GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump's recent executive order calling for a review of a rule protecting small bodies of water from pollution and development is strongly supported by golf course owners who are wary of being forced into expensive cleanups on their fairways. Via pdeppisch
PIRatE Lab's insight:
Another example of intentionally divisive rhetoric: "regulatory state," "intrusion from regulators," and such terms serve to reinforce a false dichotomy that regulation serves only to harm people.
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The one-liner — part of a Disney-approved script that many park fans know by heart — involves the Jungle Cruise captain warning parents to "watch your children, or the crocodiles will."
PIRatE Lab's insight:
It will be interesting to see how the park reacts over the long-term to this horrific tragedy. Clearly they will be doing something different with their visitor-nature interface. Disney very much likes its "Disneyfication" of nature, presenting it in a controlled manner that only offers fun/positive images. The only threats are from evil-doers and their associated minions. But when you have put your theme park on the edge of what used to be one of the most expansive wetland ecosystems on the planet, you sometimes get wetlands (including all its diverse flora and fauna) on your vacation. We have done a smashingly good job of banning much of this nature to the wayside and taming what we could't easily banish. But sometimes even nature creeps in.
Shootings in Orlando, Zika coming on strong, drought like no one alive has yet seen, and now threats to toddlers from the still living wetland community. They have a tough road to haul. But one thing is for sure: No more crocodilian jokes on the Jungle Cruise.
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Source: Oil and gas industry is already investing in coastal restoration: A letter to the editor | NOLA.com Mr. Marc Ehrhardt, executive director of the Grow Louisiana Coalition just penned ...
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This unfortunate op-ed seems designed to obfuscate the real challenge and the need for all of us to come to the table to heal the Gulf Coast.
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Woodlands Conservancy is creating a legacy for future generations by preserving and developing an ecosystem of coastal hardwood forest dedicated to public
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New land is blossoming at the mouths of the Atchafalaya River and the Wax Lake Outlet in Louisiana, bucking the trend of lost ground in this Gulf state.
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Distributaries baby! And on Mardi Gras no less...
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Startling maps in a new report on the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta show the dramatic loss of marshlands that once supported a vast array of wildlife.
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November 3, 2014 1:29 PM
Historical accuracy, immensely valuable for a thorough understanding of change in a given location. |
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Mother Nature took the rap for destroying New Orleans when the real culprit was the surge up MR-GO and the missing marshes.
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The 25-acre former 'motherhouse,' badly damaged in Hurricane Katrina, will become one of the largest urban wetlands in the U.S.
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WASHINGTON -- Farmers are reminded that updated guidelines for wetland determinations are posted and available for public input. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) want
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We compressed the collapse into about 70 years by allowing more than 10,000 miles of canals to be dredged for oil and gas and pipelines across the coast.
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New study urges balanced approach for unique, expensive effort to rebuild La. coastline
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Washington D.C. is a drained wetland.
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Louisiana's coastline is disappearing into the Gulf of Mexico, taking with it many historic sites. Archaeologists are scrambling to document what they can before it's gone.
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In a reversal of its previous position, the staff of the California Coastal Commission is recommending approval of a hotel and housing complex on the last big
PIRatE Lab's insight:
While degraded to be sure, this site offers the hope for a large-scale restoration of coastal, seasonal freshwater wetlands in the coastal zone. This is a very rare sight to see in this part of the Coast (aside from Camp Pendleton). Do we really need yet another mall and several more hundred houses in THIS location?
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On the coast of Orange County, California, just east of the busy global shipping facilities at the Port of Los Angeles, native birds and other wildlife still have a patch of natural environment where they can find food and shelter. Seal Beach National Wildlife Refuge—a 965-acre protected area managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service—provides vital habitat in an area that is completely surrounded by dense urban development. The refuge encompasses one of the few remaining tidal salt marshes in Southern California. It is also unique in that it lies entirely within the U.S. Navy’s Naval Weapons Station Seal Beach. An endangered light-footed Ridgway's rail at Seal Beach National Wildlife Refuge.
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The state hopes to save its rapidly disappearing coastline with a 50-year, $50 billion plan built on science that’s never been tested and money it doesn’t have. What could go wrong?
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How might we use offsets for existing or future impacts to biological diversity via mitigation banks?
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See also: Amrei von Hase, Andrew Cooke, Aristide Andrianarimisa, Rivolala Andriamparany, Vanessa Mass, Robin Mitchell, Kerry ten Kate 2015 Working towards NNL of Biodiversity and Beyond Ambatovy, Madagascar – A Case Study (2014). - Forest Trends, Ambatovy, Wildlife Conservation Society. 59 p.
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