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100 _aHallowen, Christopher
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245 1 0 _aHolding back the sea:
_bthe struggle for America's natural legacy on the gulf coast.
250 _a1st
264 _aUSA
_bHarper Collins,
_c2001.
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520 _aExposes 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.
650 _aWetland ecology
_zLousiana
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651 _aLouisiana
_xEnvironment conditions.
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_cBK
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