Coastal Protection and
Restoration Authority

nola.com, Halle Parker – Plans to build a coastal center at the Louisiana university closest to the state’s disappearing shoreline will move forward by the end of this year.

katc.com, Associated Press – CAMERON, La. (AP) — Construction has begun on a $32 million project to bring back hundreds of acres of marsh to a part of southwest Louisiana where storms, sinking and other factors have turned thousands of…

foz8live.com, John Snell – CAMERON, La. – NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) – Restoration work has begun on Rabbit Island in Cameron Parish, the only brown pelican colony in Southwest Louisiana. The $16.4 million project is funded with settlement money from from…

nola.com, Mark Schleifstein – Louisiana has kicked off an effort to identify part of its coastline that can be added to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s coastwide National Estuary Research Reserve program.