A long-awaited restoration project aimed at rebuilding rapidly eroding shoreline at Fourchon Beach is moving forward. But the project comes as active oil cleanup is still taking place on the Lafourche beachfront.
The nation's $1 billion stream restoration industry needs to do more to ensure that projects are guided by science, according to the co-editor of a new review of the field. Many expensive projects fail because they are not guided by science, experts say.
?Restoration? brings memories from a few years ago when my husband and I were staying in the hill towns of Tuscany. This lovely novel?s author, Olaf Olafsson, takes us back to one of my favorite topics: World War II.