Killian’s Reviews > Ain't There No More: Louisiana's Disappearing Coastal Plain > Status Update

"Trend analyses from 1985 to 2010 show a wetland loss rate of 16.57 mi2 per year. If this loss were to occur at a constant rate, it would equate to Louisiana losing an area the size of one football field per hour."

"Since channelization of the Mississippi River in the wake of the 1927 flood... coastal Louisiana has lost to erosion, subsidence, and rising sea levels a landmass roughly twice the size of the state of Connecticut."