Below are some valuable links dealing with the Louisiana coast. To get back to The Advocate Online, click the Back button in your browser window. This site is designed to tell the plight of Louisiana's coastal land loss. The agencies that make up the task force that spends money earmarked for coastal wetlands restoration in Louisiana has its own website. The program is one of several estuary programs across the nation attempting to preserve and improve an estuary, where salt water and fresh water mix.
Estuaries are very productive zones in the life cycles of most seafood species.
Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana Group working to support coastal restoration activities and legislation. University of New Orleans Coastal Research Laboratory Researchers at the lab are currently building a site with coastal erosion maps and pictures of damage done to the Chandeleur Islands by Hurricane Georges. Hurricane Animation - LSU researcher Joe Suhayda and his colleagues at the Louisiana Water Resources Research Institute and Natural Systems Engineering Lab have created software that shows what can happen on various hurricane tracks, designed to help emergency managers make better decisions. Projected loss of land by 2090 Land Loss Animations - LSU researcher Joe Suhayda and his colleagues at the Louisiana Water Resources Research Institute and Natural Systems Engineering Lab have created computer animations of the projected loss of land along coastal Louisiana. PART TWO - Money missing the mark Bayou Sauvage Read about the Bayou Sauvage project with links to monitoring information and aerial photography.