Coastal erosion: Louisiana fights the sea, and loses

Print section Print Rubric:  Republican politicians are much better at responding to environmental disasters than trying to prevent them Print Headline:  Mississippi blues Print Fly Title:  Coastal erosion in Louisiana UK Only Article:  standard article Issue:  Blanket repression is the wrong way to deal with political Islamists Fly Title:  Coastal erosion Location:  BATON ROUGE AND ISLE DE JEAN CHARLES Main image:  Hanging on to the Isle Hanging on to the Isle WHEN Roosevelt Falgout was a boy, the brackish water that now laps within a few feet of his three-room cabin at Isle de Jean Charles was miles off. "There were only trees all around, far as you could see," recalls the 81-year-old former oyster fisherman, at home on the Isle, a sliver of land in the vast marsh that covers much of southern ...

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