Since Katrina, NWF has worked with communities to build protection from future storms by advocating for restoration of coastal wetlands and barrier islands. Our first intern in Louisiana after Katrina … Read more
Hurricane Katrina
Katrina: 20 Years Later, Disasters are Worsening
Twenty years ago, meteorologists at the National Weather Service (NWS) issued an ominous warning of Hurricane Katrina’s impending destruction to New Orleans and surrounding areas. Parts of that bulletin, issued … Read more
Twenty Years After Katrina, Hurricane Highway Still Awaits Restoration
Like thousands of other people who wanted to help, I moved to New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina devastated southeast Louisiana and the Mississippi coast. I watched the aftermath of Katrina … Read more
Once-in-a-Lifetime Opportunity to Restore a National Treasure
Collin O’Mara is the President and CEO of the National Wildlife Federation Kyle Peterson is the Executive Director of the Walton Family Foundation Imagine if your state was suffering the … Read more
Learning from Hurricane Katrina
Since 1936, the National Wildlife Federation has worked to conserve the nation’s wildlife and wild places. As part of our 80th anniversary celebration, we are recognizing important moments in our … Read more
What We’ve Learned Since Katrina
This week, as we neared the #Katrina10 anniversary, a federal judge ruled that the Army Corps of Engineers must pay the full $3 billion cost of restoring wetlands destroyed by the agency’s … Read more
[VIDEO] MR-GO Closure and Wetland Restoration a Potential Model for Other Manmade Channels
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIWrAl0GAFc[/youtube]Completed in 1965 as a shortcut between the Port of New Orleans and the Gulf of Mexico, the Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet (MR-GO) has been identified as one of the biggest … Read more
