Go to http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10785780 (Lousiana wants to change river’s course to save coast)..
Click on Listen and listen to the 5 minute program. Then answer the following questions with a 100 word minimum for EACH question:
1. How rapidly is the Louisiana coast losing land?
2. How has human engineering of the Mississippi changed the river’s pattern of sediment deposition?
3. The state is creating land by dredging silt from shipping channels and dumping it into wetlands. What is the ratio of land “saved” to land that is lost by erosion?
