Holding back the sea: the struggle for America's natural legacy on the gulf coast.
Hallowen, Christopher
Holding back the sea: the struggle for America's natural legacy on the gulf coast. - 1st - 265
Exposes the vulnerability of this stark land that spreads along the Gulf Coast, as its litrally vanishes-at a rate of twenty-five square miles per year, an area the size of Manhattan -so starved for lack of nutrients, so eroded away by ever more severe storms, and so dredged for canals that is on the verge of being swallowed by the rising Gulf of Mexico.
0-06-019446-4
Wetland ecology--Lousiana
Louisiana--Environment conditions.
333.91809763 / H15
Holding back the sea: the struggle for America's natural legacy on the gulf coast. - 1st - 265
Exposes the vulnerability of this stark land that spreads along the Gulf Coast, as its litrally vanishes-at a rate of twenty-five square miles per year, an area the size of Manhattan -so starved for lack of nutrients, so eroded away by ever more severe storms, and so dredged for canals that is on the verge of being swallowed by the rising Gulf of Mexico.
0-06-019446-4
Wetland ecology--Lousiana
Louisiana--Environment conditions.
333.91809763 / H15