Group Praises Bush
August 29, 2006 pharrison@ed.org or Sean
Group Praises Bush’s Statement Calling for Congress to Fund
Wetland Restoration to Protect
Bills in Congress Would Not Require Any Money to be Used for Wetlands Restoration
The report, “One Year After Katrina, Louisiana Still a Sitting Duck: A Report Card and Roadmap on Wetlands Restoration” (http://www.environmentaldefense.org/go/katrinaoneyear), warned that unless
“One thing that the American people have got to understand is that in order to make sure the levee system works, there has to be a barrier system to protect the state of Louisiana. I strongly urge the
(President Bush, White House transcript, www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/08/20060829-2.html)
“While we agree with President Bush, the devil is in the details,” said Paul Harrison, coastal
Louisiana’s coastal wetlands are by far the largest and most important coastal ecosystem in North America, but over the past century about 2,000 of the original 7,000 square miles of coastal marsh and swamp forests that formed the coastal delta of the Mississippi River have disappeared, an area larger than Delaware (see map of land loss from 1932-2000 at www.lacoast.gov/maps/2004SElandloss/index.htm).
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