A Brief Review Of Ken Wells Restoring The Wetlands

Louisiana is a state in the South-Central region of the United States. Some of the largest problems that Louisiana deals with are coastal land loss, human evasion, and even animals destroying the land. In Louisiana, land is lost each day and not many people have produced a solution to fix these problems. A football field of land is lost per hour in Louisiana and has affected the coast daily, leaving Louisiana with little to no land. Finding different solutions as a community, or even creating solutions to fix Louisiana land, could save the land. The rapid loss of Louisiana's coastal land and the roles played with it, presents a critical challenge to the environment that demands urgent community engagement to keep from coastal endangerment.

An article “Restoring the Wetlands” by Ken Wells, explains how numerous acres of Louisiana Wetlands are lost and what the community can do to restore them. One of the several issues with trying to restore the Louisiana land and rebuild in certain areas is the money. Different cities in Louisiana do not want to pay for a change and to keep from losing all land as a whole. Ken Wells provides information to an audience that in “Louisiana, its delta for decades starved for silt by the channelization of the Mississippi and its marches opened to saltwater intrusion by massive channelization for oil and gas development, has lost a third of its 3.2 million acres of wetlands since 1930” (Wells). The Mississippi River, oil stations and gas supply have destroyed the land of Louisiana. One way that we could potentially save the land is by finding different water ways for people to use, or to create different and environmentally safe products that will not cause harm to the land. We could rebuild locations for different pumping systems and find ways to be delicate at

Many people have taken over different swamp areas and destroyed the land with their boats and even littered the land. All of these things can destroy the land, making it much weaker to hold, which then results in coastal land loss. An article “Mixed Sediment for Sustainable Ecosystem Restoration of Louisiana” by Khalil Syed and other authors, explains how human activity has affected the Louisiana coastal land. Although humans play a large role in effecting the landscapes, Khalil states “The fast-degrading coastal Louisiana needs frequent emplacement of sediment where the objective is not limited to ecosystem restoration only but most importantly to mitigate the pervasive land loss” (Syed). The fast land loss that Louisiana experiences each day is affected by human activities that do not take any part in making things better. A way this can be fixed is by blocking areas off that people do not need to attend to or find ways to hold the landscaping together as a form of invention. There are always ways that communities can make a change and keep the land alive in different