Coastal News Today | LA - Louisiana is sinking, but there's hope with new land growth - Ducks Unlimited has figured out how to replace lost acres with thriving wetlands in a fast and cheap way

PLAQUEMINES PARISH, La. — Louisiana is sinking "So this far we’ve lost 2,400 square miles," said Captain Ryan Lambert, owner of Cajun Fishing Adventures. "We’ve lost an area bigger than Delaware. In Hurricane Ida, we lost 106 square miles of land in one day. It’s just a cancer that keeps eating and eating at Louisiana."

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