• onthehook8 (72)in #nature • 3 years ago

  The 'surfing' pelicans of South Louisiana

  The Lake Pontchartrain Causeway in Louisiana serves as a unique aerial highway for brown pelicans, known for their distinctive features like a seven-foot wingspan and elongated…

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• onthehook8 (72)in #nature • 3 years ago

  Meet the caretaker of Bayou Sauvage, among biggest urban wildlife refuges in U.S.

  Bayou Sauvage, situated in the northeast corner of New Orleans, is the largest national wildlife refuge within a city in the United States, spanning 30,000 acres of forest and…

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• onthehook8 (72)in #nature • 3 years ago

  Louisiana ranchers and farmers are feeling the heat: 'It's just brutal dry'

  Louisiana ranchers, such as Amelia Kent and Joey Register, are grappling with the effects of an exceptionally hot and dry summer. The pastures are barren, ponds are shrinking…

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• onthehook8 (72)in #nature • 3 years ago

  Dolphins at risk from Louisiana's biggest ever coastal project. This plan might save some.

  In June, a team of about 30 trained personnel used specialized boats and equipment to successfully capture and relocate a mother and baby bottlenose dolphin from a tidal pond…

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• onthehook8 (72)in #environment • 3 years ago

  $2.9 billion Mississippi River diversion job begins, aims to make 21 square miles of land

  Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards led a groundbreaking ceremony near Ironton on the Mississippi River's west bank for the $2.9 billion Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion project.…

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• onthehook8 (72)in #nature • 4 years ago

  Ahead of governor’s race, Louisiana coastal advocates tout public support for diversions

  The poll indicated 73% of respondents support diversions to rebuild coastal land, up from 68% in 2021. When further information was provided, the share increased to 80%.…

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• onthehook8 (72)in #nature • 4 years ago

  'Fiscal cliff' ahead for Louisiana coastal restoration efforts, report warns

  “Louisiana’s largest sources of money to pay for coastal restoration and protection work will run dry within the next decade, leaving the state far short of the cash needed to…

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• onthehook8 (72)in #nature • 4 years ago

  Meet the woman leading Louisiana's effort to save the endangered whooping crane

  Lanky and long-beaked, the cranes are North America’s tallest birds. They’re also one of the continent’s most endangered. Their numbers fell to just 20 in the 1940s. By the…

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• onthehook8 (72)in #outdoors • 4 years ago

  Mayors across US call for federal assistance as Mississippi River reaches record lows

  “Low water can have as great a cost, or greater, than high water,” said Jim Strickland, mayor of Memphis, Tenn., where river levels reached a historic low at the end of October.…

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• onthehook8 (72)in #outdoors • 4 years ago

  Gulf's first two zones for offshore wind farms selected off Louisiana, Texas

  The two areas have the potential to generate enough power for almost 3 million homes, according to BOEM. That’s enough electricity for the combined populations of Houston, New…

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• onthehook8 (72)in #nature • 4 years ago

  These projects will build 11 square miles of new Louisiana wetlands by next year

  The projects are located in Orleans, Jefferson, Plaquemines and St. Bernard parishes, using sediment dredged from area lakes and bays and the Mississippi River. Interesting…

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• onthehook8 (72)in #outdoors • 4 years ago

  Deal reached in $100 million settlement with Freeport over decades of coastal damage

  The deal comes a week after a federal appeals court sent a similar lawsuit, also led by Carmouche, back to state court for trial, potentially clearing the way for more than 40…

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• onthehook8 (72)in #outdoors • 4 years ago

  UNO launches research hub to support Gulf of Mexico's wind energy boom

  "This excellent initiative from the University of New Orleans has the potential to positively impact the transition of workforce to the emerging opportunity of offshore wind," he…

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• onthehook8 (72)in #nature • 4 years ago

  Photos: Mississippi River continues to sink to record lows as it passes through New Orleans

  Underneath the Governor Nicholls Street Wharf in New Orleans on Wednesday, October 19, 2022. Water from the Mississippi River typically covers this area. Interesting photos of…

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• onthehook8 (72)in #nature • 4 years ago

  Bayou Lafourche's rebirth takes 'transformative' step as work begins on new pump station

  By Army Corps estimates, at least 85,000 acres of wetland will benefit from the added freshwater flows. Interesting article about a new pumping station being built in South…

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• onthehook8 (72)in #nature • 4 years ago

  Mississippi River at lowest level in a decade, affecting shipping traffic and drinking water

  The river is so low that officials with the Army Corps of Engineers last week announced a plan to build a 45-foot-tall wall across the bottom of the river to prevent a "wedge" of…

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• onthehook8 (72)in #nature • 4 years ago

  Corps eyes solution for Neptune Pass, a Mississippi River channel that is blocking navigation

  The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service estimates that, if the flow control structure isn't built, Quarantine Bay will build 5 acres of land a year, and Bay Denesse will build 9 acres…

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• onthehook8 (72)in #nature • 4 years ago

  Photos: A partial solution for Louisiana's disappearing coast may be found at Neptune, pass that is

  Thanks to a new natural diversion from the Mississippi River, outflowing sediment is rebuilding marsh and land in this area on the east side of the river across from Buras…

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• onthehook8 (72)in #nature • 4 years ago

  Can glass help rebuild Louisiana's coast? Researchers plan to find out

  Researchers primarily from Tulane want to find out. They're studying whether recycled glass turned into sand can help slow land loss devastating Louisiana's coast. Interesting…

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• onthehook8 (72)in #nature • 4 years ago

  Rebuilding Louisiana's disappearing coast: $2 billion+ project could soon be approved

  “The trustees believe that a sediment diversion is the only way to achieve a self-sustaining marsh ecosystem in the Barataria Basin, ” the report said. Interesting article…

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