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As Louisiana's Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA) advances its draft 2017 Coastal Master Plan, the next few months will be critical in the fight to restore Louisiana’s coast. To keep you engaged and informed, we will bring you discussions on important aspects of coastal restoration, the latest coastal news and events, interviews with relevant experts, business and community leaders, and more.
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Two Louisiana coastal leaders show how local attachment can grow into practical restoration and resilience work.
Delta Dispatches ends its limited run in coastal Louisiana, where Simone Maloz talks with two people whose paths have moved steadily toward restoration and resilience work. Kylie Miller, a St.
A grounded look at river reconnection, Maura Paw Swamp restoration, and conservation work across the river parishes.
Louisiana's largest swamp becomes the center of a practical conversation about river reconnection, coastal restoration, and what that work means for nearby communities.
A grounded 200th-episode look at Louisiana restoration, resilience, and the people building coastal knowledge.
Delta Dispatches marks its 200th show by tying Louisiana coastal restoration to the people and institutions carrying the work forward. Charles Sutcliffe brings perspective from a decade in the governor's office to a discussion of investment, resilience, and what those ideas mean…
A grounded Bayou-region conversation where coastal restoration, community leadership, and local support meet.
Delta Dispatches returns to Louisiana's Bayou region with Bren Haas of the Barataria Terrebonne National Estuary Program and Jennifer Armand of the Bayou Community Foundation.
A careful look at what Katrina and Rita changed along Louisiana's coast, and why recovery still depends on public attention.
Twenty years after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, Delta Dispatches treats a coastal anniversary as a reckoning with loss, damage, and the long work that follows.
Books, systems, and the questions that unlock them.
Coastal science, patiently and beautifully reported.
Soil life, climate repair, practical regeneration.
Delta Dispatches brings together host Simone Maloz, St.
Delta Dispatches centers on Samoma Laws of Restore the Mississippi River Delta speaking with Brad Miller of the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority and Christy Trail of Pontchartrain Conservancy about river-parish restoration.
Delta Dispatches uses episode 200 to ask how Louisiana's coastal playbook can travel to other states, with Charles Sutcliffe explaining why science, funding, and insurance now sit in the same conversation.
["Delta Dispatches links BTNEP's 4.2 million-acre estuary footprint to Bayou Community Foundation's Ida recovery work in the Bayou region.", "Samoma Laws hosts Bren Haas, BTNEP's program director, and Jennifer Armand, the Bayou Community Foundation's executive director, because both translate local resilience into concrete programs.", "Haas says Louisiana has only one national estuary program, and he walks through Estuary Explore, Chimney Swift towers, Purple Martin colonies, and native plant propagation at Nichols farm.", "Armand says the foundation serves Lafourche Parish, Terrebonne Parish, and Grand Isle, with mental health, housing, and $355,000 in 2025 grants shaping the current response."]
Delta Dispatches marks the 20-year legacy of Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita with Jessica Dandridge of the Water Collaborative of Greater New Orleans and former CPRA board chair Sydney Coffey.
Delta Dispatches examines Louisiana’s 2029 Coastal Master Plan with Allie Olsenowski of the Environmental Defense Fund and Katie Freer, Assistant Administrator at the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority.
Delta Dispatches host Simoma Laws speaks with Charles Allen of Audubon Delta and Arthur Johnson of the Lower Ninth Ward Center for Sustainable Engagement and Development about coastal Louisiana advocacy.
Delta Dispatches returns with Simone Maloz, Alicia Renfro, and Steve Cochran to examine why restoring Louisiana's coast affects wetlands, communities, fisheries, jobs, and national trade.
Delta Dispatches co-host Jacques Hebert announces that he is becoming communications director for the McKnight Foundation in Minneapolis and leaving Restore the Mississippi River Delta after eight years.
Jacques Hebert interviews Trevor Russell of Friends of the Mississippi River about how Minnesota's upper Mississippi connects to Louisiana's Gulf coast.
Host Jacques Hebert interviews Fran Troutman about Glass Half Full's innovative glass recycling for coastal restoration.
Interview with the new director of the Barataria Terrebonne National Estuary Program about coastal restoration in Louisiana.
Host Jacques Aver discusses coastal restoration policy and upcoming events with guests from the Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana.
Hosts discuss Louisiana's coastal restoration efforts, weather, and local blooms in a conversational update.