KAYAKING WITH LOST LANDS
A lot can be learned about Louisiana's environmental issues on this guided tour of a cypress tupelo forest.
PT. 1: Sea Level Rise, Erosion Drive Louisiana’s Coastal Crisis | NBC Nightly News
In Part 1 of “Water’s Edge,” the state of Louisiana loses a football field of land every 90 minutes to coastal erosion and sea level rise. As the water closes in, the state has drafted an aggressive restoration plan intended to build new land, but it threatens to flood rural communities living throughout the bayous. In a place that’s lost more land than the total area of the Grand Canyon, are sediment diversions the answer?
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PT. 1: Sea Level Rise, Erosion Drive Louisiana’s Coastal Crisis | NBC Nightly News
Finding Common Ground: A Louisiana Documentary
Louisiana’s struggle to restore Louisiana’s Mississippi River Delta has resulted in a new Master Plan that embraces new advances in scientific knowledge— new tools for rebuilding the coast. Local, traditional ecological knowledge can also be a tool for cost saving planning.
Finding Common Ground uses documentary film techniques to show how all those impacted by coastal erosion can cross over out of their silos, overcome long term psychological barriers, and achieve new understanding that may fast track restoration projects to build much needed new ground.
Evangeline Drowning
National Premier of a new Docudrama
Written & Directed by Kurt Heinlein
Missouri State University
Feb. 25-28, 2010
What would you do if your hometown and all its people were under dire immediate threat? What if you lost your home, your land, and your family belongings, and no one seemed to care, much less lend a hand? What if the children in your community fled their homes and lives without option as your family and culture decayed in their wake? What if the lives of your neighbors or grandparents were unnecessarily lost while politicians seemed incapacitated and outsiders idly observed? What if all of this was avoidable, occurring because of man-made problems? What would you do?
The youth of South Louisiana are forced to ask themselves these difficult questions every day, growing up in a land where threat, loss, and survival take precedence over the traditional spoils of youth. In Southern Louisiana, man-made environmental problems are causing the loss of one football field of land every 15 minutes, resulting in a devastating disintegration of personal lives and irreplaceable heritage. Formulated directly from a year of on-site interviews, Evangeline Drowning is a riveting new docu-drama that investigates the socio-environmental crisis in Southern Louisiana through the lens of those it impacts the most, notably the voices of its future.
Evangeline Drowning was developed through a project titled Vanishing Wetlands, Vanishing Cultures, supported by a Missouri State University Future's Grant and the College of Arts and Letters.
This production will travel to the Bayou Playhouse in Lockport LA on March 7, Southern Repertory Theatre in New Orleans on March 8, and to Swine Palace (Louisiana State University) in Baton Rouge LA on March 9, 2010.
Sinking Louisiana | May 2019 | Public Square
Louisiana’s coast is experiencing the fastest rate of relative sea level rise in the world, impacting more than 2 million of its residents. The state has also faced two of America’s most destructive storms - Hurricanes Rita and Katrina -that permanently destroyed miles of shoreline and barrier islands.
Louisiana’s energy sector supplies more than 16 percent of America’s oil and five percent of its natural gas. Global climate change and rising seas will significantly contribute to the deterioration of the coast, and Louisiana’s reliance on extractive industries complicates finding solutions.
Many scientists argue we are nearing a tipping point to save the coast, which demands “connecting the dots,” significant investment and a change in priorities. Louisiana Public Square, in partnership with public radio station WWNO, brings together coastal stakeholders, NGOs, researchers and industry leaders to explore strategies that reduce coastal land loss and protect lives on “Sinking Louisiana” Wednesday, May 22 at 7pm on LPB and in New Orleans on WLAE.
This program is made possible in part through funding from WNET and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
Our panelists will be:
Dr. Virginia Burkett, Climate Scientist with U.S.G.S.
Pat Forbes, Executive Director, Office of Community Development
Bren Haase, Executive Director of the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority
Tegan Wendland, WWNO Coastal reporter
LPB CEO, Beth Courtney, and LPB news anchor, Andre’ Moreau, host the program.
The program features interviews with Torbjorn Tornqvist, a professor with Tulane's Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences; Monique Boulet, CEO of the Acadiana Planning Commission and Bren Haase, Executive Director of the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority.
Major funding for Sinking Cities was provided by Dr. P. Roy Vagelos and Diana T. Vagelos with additional funding from Sue and Edgar Wachenheim III and The Marc Haas Foundation, as part of Peril and Promise, a public media initiative from WNET in New York reporting on the stories of climate change. Sinking Cities was also supported by The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations and Viewers Like You. Additional funding for Peril and Promise is provided by Lise Strickler and Mark Gallogly.
The Road Back Home: Environmental Justice and Wetland Restoration at the Lower 9th (Full version)
The Road Back Home: Environmental Justice and Wetland Restoration at the Lower 9th
Directed by Reynaldo Morales
Produced by: Pouria Baladi, Linda Pfeiffer, and Reynaldo Morales
What would happen if another hurricane as devastating as Katrina hits New Orleans again? How it will most likely affect once again the most impoverished, underprivileged and marginalized communities? Who live in these communities? What happened with the reported 50 billion dollars in federal assistance directed to the reconstruction of New Orleans on areas that were not even impacted by Katrina? What is the vision of leaders and activists from community based organizations, community members, volunteers, land stewards and advocates that are assisting the Lower Ninth Ward, the most devastated community after Hurricane Katrina, still in ruins 5 yrs. after the facts? What is the status of the federal and state assistance for its reconstruction? Are race and historical marginalization key factors of this disparity and a case of environmental justice? How the levees that were built to protect New Orleans only impacted this predominantly African American community? What is the real impact of the 2010 BP Oil Spill in the Gulf Coast and what it means for New Orleans and Louisiana's future? How this is connected to the lost of the size of a football field of wetlands every 30 minutes in the State of Louisiana? What will be the future of the fishing community in the Gulf Coast, and to the marine and aquatic species, as well as marshes and vegetation that serves also as surge protection to natural disasters? How this is connected to the action for wetland restoration of the Bayou Bienvenue Wetland Triangle in New Orleans and the Lower Ninth community? What is the role of environmental and sustainable development for the future? What the role of research universities, environmental agencies, educational and community organizations to face an uncertain future and assist under-served communities? What is the hope for the future?
Produced for the University of Wisconsin Madison, UW NOLA Project and Department of Geoscience. 33 minutes HD
Executive Consultants:
Herb Wang - University of Wisconsin Madison, Department of Geoscience
Wilma Subra - Louisiana Environmental Action Network (1999 MacArthur Fellow & 2011 Global Exchange Human Rights Awards Honoree)
Produced in June 2010. New Orleans and Grand Isle during the 2010 Louisiana Gulf Coast BP Oil Spill.
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Land Area Change in Coastal Louisiana (1932 to 2010)
Coastal Louisiana wetlands make up the seventh largest delta on Earth, contain about 37 percent of the estuarine herbaceous marshes in the conterminous United States, and support the largest commercial fishery in the lower 48 States. These wetlands are in peril because Louisiana currently undergoes about 90 percent of the total coastal wetland loss in the continental United States. Documenting and understanding the occurrence and rates of wetland loss are necessary for effective planning, protection, and restoration activities.
USGS land change analyses show that coastal Louisiana has undergone a net change in land area of about -1,883 square miles (mi2) from 1932 to 2010, or an area equivalent to the size the State of Delaware. This net change in land area amounts to a decrease of about 25 percent of the 1932 land area. Trend analyses from 1985 to 2010 show a wetland loss rate of 16.57 mi2 per year. If this loss were to occur at a constant rate, it would equate to Louisiana losing an area the size of one football field per hour, or an area greater than the size of the Island of Manhattan every year.
Dramatic plan to stop Louisiana from sinking into the sea
(3 Oct 2019) LEAD IN:
Coastal erosion and rising seas are a constant threat in the Mississippi Delta, where millions of people and their livelihoods are protected by a complex system of levees and controls, parts of which are over a century old.
Now, officials in the State of Louisiana have unveiled an extraordinarily ambitious, multi-billion-dollar works program to try to shore up the delta's future.
STORY-LINE:
This vast, watery landscape in Louisiana's Deep South is the product of thousands of years of earth and sand movement by the mighty Mississippi River.
The river, which originates 3,760 kilometres (2,320 miles) north of here in Minnesota, has been picking up sand and dirt and shifting it here to the delta for centuries.
Attempts to tame this wild landscape have a mixed record, especially when hurricanes blow in from the Gulf of Mexico.
In 2012, Hurricane Isaac showed what nature's fury can do, causing five deaths and leaving a damage bill of $612 million.
Most of the time though, a network of levees and flood controls holds the river in check.
But with Louisiana facing epic problems of coastal erosion, sea rise and climate change in the years ahead, state officials are resolving to go further.
Engineers hope to remake some eroded marshes by cutting into the levees and siphoning off sediment-rich water that can be channelled into coastal basins.
When the sediment settles out of the water, it will slowly accrue into soil.
The idea is that modern technology and engineering can mimic the natural processes that built the coast, before levees and flood control projects tamed the river.
The more – I call it the green stuff. The more green stuff we can put in place in our basin, between our levees and our barrier islands, is good for storm surge and reducing wave height during hurricanes and storms, says Brad Barth, the sediment diversion program director at Louisiana's Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority.
Louisiana estimates it's lost about 5,200 square kilometres (2,006 square miles) of land since 1932 to water.
And if nothing is done, it could lose as much as 10,900 square kilometres (4,200 square miles) over the next 50 years, depending on sea level rise.
Saltwater is encroaching and eating away at the coast, aided by a network of canals that were cut to facilitate oil and gas development, navigation and logging.
So, I think, we try to re-establish what was here before, what the river built historically, says Rudy Simoneaux, a Louisiana coastal engineer.
Diversions are considered by many to be key to the effort, and a better solution than dredging.
The state is currently in the permit-issuing process, and construction likely won't start until 2021 or 2022.
For a dredge project, we may be talking 100 acres, 200 acres or 1,000. We're doing some of the bigger dredge projects we've ever done before, but we're still talking low thousands. Diversions have the potential for tens of thousands of acres, explains Barth.
An air boat tour winding through the marshes created by an existing diversion project gives a hint of what supporters say can be built on a much larger scale.
The Davis Pond Diversion was built in order to divert freshwater from the Mississippi River into Barataria Bay to balance out salinity levels as waters from the Gulf encroached.
It carries only a fraction of the water and sediment that the two larger, pending sediment diversions will, and building land wasn't the goal, but a happy by-product.
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Places You Wouldn't Want to Live in the U.S.
Are you thinking of relocating somewhere in the States? Make sure you take a look at the 12 worst places to live in the U.S. before you make any decisions about your next home base.
12. St. Louis, Missouri
Over 14% of St. Louis’ population is living below the poverty line. Out of 100,000 residents, every year 35.3 are murdered, which ranks it as one of America’s most dangerous cities too.
11. Reno, Nevada
Reno was the gambling capital of the US until Las Vegas was developed and “The Biggest Little City in the World” has been in economic decline ever since. Reno experiences nearly 39 annual crimes per 1,000 residents.
10. Modesto, California
Despite being home to the largest winery in the world, the unemployment rate was nearly 13% in 2014. Modesto ranks number one in the country for car theft and out of 200,000 residents, up to 10,000 are reported to be gang members.
9. Oakland, California
The economy in Oakland is strong with a good median household income. ($51,683.) However, home to around 50 gangs and a high violent crime rate, Oakland also suffers from high traffic congestion and poor air quality. 190% worse than the national average.
8. New Orleans, Louisiana
The “murder capital of the country, also has one of the worst toxic-substance records. New Orleans has still not recovered from Hurricane Katrina, and was ranked number two in “America’s Dirtiest Cities.”
7. Birmingham, Alabama
27.3% of residents live below the poverty line. Out of every 100,000 residents, 1400 are victims of violent crimes due to the prominent drug trade and high poverty rate.
6. Stockton, California
In 2012, the city filed for bankruptcy. Forbes voted Stockton as one of the most dangerous cities in America due to its high crime rates with over 20,000 violent and property crimes committed last year.
5. Memphis, Tennessee
Memphis is the largest city on the Mississippi River with over 20% of its inhabitants living below the poverty line. In Memphis you stand a 1 in 12 chance of being a victim of crime.
4. New Haven, Connecticut
Home of Yale University, the surrounding areas of New Haven are impoverished and crime ridden. Nearly 68 crimes occur annually for every 1,000 residents.
3. Cleveland, Ohio
Aside from being one of the most corrupt cities in the country, Cleveland also has harsh weather conditions, with an average of 60 inches of snowfall each year.
2. Detroit, Michigan
The city is suffering from urban decay with over 32% of residents living below the national poverty line. According to FBI Reports, Detroit has the highest rate of violent crime of any city over 200,000.
1. Camden, New Jersey
Camden has been on Forbes’ list of “America’s Most Miserable Cities” for years. Riddled with urban decay and political corruption, over 42% of its residents live below the poverty line. It also has 560% more crime than the national average.
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???????? Losing Louisiana: Life in the Disappearing Mississippi Delta | REWIND
Every year, communities on the Gulf of Mexico risk being swept away by the elements.
In 2005, the US state of Louisiana was devastated by Hurricane Katrina, a Category 5 storm which breached levies and flooded the city of New Orleans. In July 2019, tropical storm Hurricane Barry again forced thousands to evacuate as heavy rainfall brought widespread flooding.
But hurricanes are not the only problem Louisiana is facing. It has been losing land to the Gulf of Mexico at an alarming rate, caused in part by oil exploration and made worse by rising sea levels from climate change.
It has threatened the unique and ancient way of life on the bayous as those communities now face the prospect of having to relocate to higher ground.
In 2009, we visited the wetlands of the Mississippi Delta, where Cajun people had lived on the land for generations and were struggling to keep up with change. As marshlands were turned into open water, communities were retreating inland, pushed back by the waters that were once their lifeblood.
Those in the shrimping business also suffered as salt water infiltrated the delicate wetlands and less freshwater was available to grow shrimp. That, combined with competition from foreign companies, meant that they had to work hard for less profit.
Windell Curole, the general manager of the South Lafourche Levee District, described how there was precious little time to save communities.
It's not only losing the future, it's losing the past, he said.
Ten years on, Rewind returns to southern Louisiana to revisit Curole and others still battling climate change.
Curole takes us to a dock where nearby a cemetery and marshes once stood. Now, there is just open water.
He says that only six people remain in the community, down from the roughly 30 residents 10 years ago.
We also visit Phyliss Melancon, whose family has fished in the area for generations.
Other areas do things and they are preserving their land and here it's not. There is no future, no more future for residents. I don't know, it hurts. It hurts to know that you have to move, she says.
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In The Blind
In the Blind, a powerful new documentary that traces the unique traditions and rich culture of waterfowl hunting in Louisiana’s Sportsman’s Paradise and explores the sport’s relevance in a global conservation effort to preserve and restore waterfowl populations, migratory flyways and fragile habitat of this imperiled region.
In the Blind transports audiences across Louisiana from coastal marshes to flooded forests to trace the history of some of the region’s most famous hunting clubs and public land hunting spots, along with the traditions and cuisine that make up this unique, renowned culture. The program features an immersive, “day in the life” of the sport’s most passionate participants, from the hunters and guides, to the card players, storytellers, cooks, decoy carvers, call-makers, wildlife conservationists, land managers and environmental journalists.
For this documentary, LPB partnered with New Orleans-based filmmaker Emma Lou Reid, producer, writer and director of In the Blind. For three years, Reid - a Minnesota native and Louisiana transplant - immersed herself in the culture, politics and landscape of duck hunting. Prior to working on In The Blind, Reid co-produced the National Telly Award winning documentary, Finding Common Ground.
LPB’s President and CEO, Beth Courtney, will interview Reid about the project during the statewide premiere of In the Blind, Thursday, December 12 at 7PM on LPB. The film will also be steaming live at lpb.org/live and on the LPB App (LPB broadcast encore Sunday, December 15 at 6:30PM). Viewers will be offered exclusive opportunities during the LPB broadcast, including a hunting camp excursion, a kayak/birdwatching tour of Bayou Manchac led by Reid, and other unique duck hunting items.
In the Blind will also air on WYES in New Orleans on Wednesday, December 18 at 8PM (encore Saturday, December 21 at 3PM).
Major funding for In the Blind is generously provided by Lipsey's, Acadian Ambulance Service and Mr. & Mrs. W. Clinton Rasberry Jr. and W. Clinton Rasberry III.
Private Equity Fund Launches Louisiana Wetlands Restoration—For Profit: The Minute
Restoring Lousiana's badly eroded wetlands is key to protecting that state against further devastation from hurricanes like Katrina. The state has developed a master plan, the federal government has promised funding, and BP continues to pay out reparations to repair coastline damage from its 2010 oil spill. Now, Ecosystem Investment Partners, a private equity firm, has launched a major wetlands restoration effort as a profit enterprise.
According to the New York Times, the company intends to profit from its good works by selling its restoration credits to private developers and government agencies like the Army Corps of Engineers. The private equity project is notable for its size: the company has raised $181 million dollars from investors for this and other wetland restoration projects. Work is underway in a critical land bridge area that separates Lake Pontchartrain, which borders New Orleans on the north, from Lake Borgne in the east, and beyond, from the salty waters of the Gulf of Mexico. This fragile isthmus has lost a 25 percent of its wetlands since 1932.
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Island in crisis - A Louisiana tribe makes plans to relocate due to environmental change
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Louisiana hopes to fight coast erosion by mimicking nature
(3 Oct 2019) LEAD IN:
Coastal erosion and rising seas are a constant threat in the Mississippi Delta, where millions of people and their livelihoods are protected by a complex system of levees and controls, parts of which are over a century old.
Now, officials in the State of Louisiana have unveiled an extraordinarily ambitious, multi-billion-dollar works program to try to shore up the delta's future.
STORY-LINE:
This vast, watery landscape in Louisiana's Deep South is the product of thousands of years of earth and sand movement by the mighty Mississippi River.
The river, which originates 3,760 kilometres (2,320 miles) north of here in Minnesota, has been picking up sand and dirt and shifting it here to the delta for centuries.
Attempts to tame this wild landscape have a mixed record, especially when hurricanes blow in from the Gulf of Mexico.
In 2012, Hurricane Isaac showed what nature's fury can do, causing five deaths and leaving a damage bill of $612 million.
Most of the time though, a network of levees and flood controls holds the river in check.
But with Louisiana facing epic problems of coastal erosion, sea rise and climate change in the years ahead, state officials are resolving to go further.
Engineers hope to remake some eroded marshes by cutting into the levees and siphoning off sediment-rich water that can be channelled into coastal basins.
When the sediment settles out of the water, it will slowly accrue into soil.
The idea is that modern technology and engineering can mimic the natural processes that built the coast, before levees and flood control projects tamed the river.
The more – I call it the green stuff. The more green stuff we can put in place in our basin, between our levees and our barrier islands, is good for storm surge and reducing wave height during hurricanes and storms, says Brad Barth, the sediment diversion program director at Louisiana's Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority.
Louisiana estimates it's lost about 5,200 square kilometres (2,006 square miles) of land since 1932 to water.
And if nothing is done, it could lose as much as 10,900 square kilometres (4,200 square miles) over the next 50 years, depending on sea level rise.
Saltwater is encroaching and eating away at the coast, aided by a network of canals that were cut to facilitate oil and gas development, navigation and logging.
So, I think, we try to re-establish what was here before, what the river built historically, says Rudy Simoneaux, a Louisiana coastal engineer.
Diversions are considered by many to be key to the effort, and a better solution than dredging.
The state is currently in the permit-issuing process, and construction likely won't start until 2021 or 2022.
For a dredge project, we may be talking 100 acres, 200 acres or 1,000. We're doing some of the bigger dredge projects we've ever done before, but we're still talking low thousands. Diversions have the potential for tens of thousands of acres, explains Barth.
An air boat tour winding through the marshes created by an existing diversion project gives a hint of what supporters say can be built on a much larger scale.
The Davis Pond Diversion was built in order to divert freshwater from the Mississippi River into Barataria Bay to balance out salinity levels as waters from the Gulf encroached.
It carries only a fraction of the water and sediment that the two larger, pending sediment diversions will, and building land wasn't the goal, but a happy by-product.
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Cemeteries sinking, washing away as Louisiana struggles with storms, coastal erosion
by Anne CutlerLEEVILLE, LA. - Thousands of acres of land in Louisiana are disappearing due to coastal erosion. On that land are graves from some of the oldest cemeteries in the state. Submerged tombs in Leeville, Louisiana give new meaning to the expression a watery grave. Piles of barnacle-covered bricks are washing away in the lapping water. The rubble is all that remains of a family cemetery in the small coastal town.All over South Louisiana you have these little family plots that people had their family members build as many as 20 or 30 grave sites, some as many as 60, built on high land, says the South LaFourche Levee District's Windell Curole.Curole's a descendent of those who once called Leeville home. His ancestors are buried in the Crosby family plot, which has been reduced to a patch of crumbling graves along Highway 1, enclosed by a rusty chain-link fence. There's little protection against the environmental threats that inch closer every year.That graveyard was in the shade of oak treas and now you don't see an oak in sight, says Curole. All you see is marsh and open water.A decade ago, the family cemented over the graveyard, hoping to preserve what was left. Looking at the broken tombstones and grave markers, you can see it offered little protection against the rising waters. Over the past century, the town has subsided roughly 3ft and lost another from rising sea levels. The cause: our intricate levee system that prevents flooding along the Mississippi River. Sediment that built up the delta over 5000 years now dumps right into the gulf. As the coastline erodes from hurricanes and storms, there's nothing to build it back up.Adding onto those problems is that we've cut channels, which allow the Gulf of Mexico to get closer to us, says Curole. We've lost our marsh barriers. We've lost our natural chenieres, our oak ridge barriers. All of these things help keep some of the energy from storms away.As a result, the coastline is now 30-40 miles closer to the residents of Southeast, Louisiana. Families are forced to move further inland with each generation.And it's like most deltas throughout the world, says Curole. You always have great risk and great opportunity, and in this place you have the extreme of both of them. You have tremendous truck traffic and barge traffic and tug traffic, and yet the risks are taking even the graves away.In the case of Curole's family plot and the other small graveyards dotting Leeville, that risk has taken its toll.You're not only losing your past, but you're losing your future, says Curole. You're losing everything.Once a town of 60, only 2 families now call Leeville home. Eventually, they too will move to higher ground, as they watch the memories of their ancestors sink before their very eyes.
Louisiana Governor's Inauguration 2020
Join LPB for live coverage of the inauguration of Gov. John Bel Edwards for his second term.
Louisiana Public Broadcasting presented live coverage of Governor John Bel Edwards and other statewide elected officials being sworn into office on Monday, January 13 on the steps of the Louisiana State Capitol* in Baton Rouge. Coverage began at 11AM and was hosted by Beth Courtney, LPB President & CEO, and Andre’ Moreau and Natasha Williams, Co-Anchors of LPB’s Louisiana: The State We’re In. Hear political analysis and see highlights from an interview with the Governor about his plans for the next four years. The inauguration ceremony began at 11:30AM. The Governor made his Inaugural Address following his oath of office at 12PM.
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