Environment

Bob Marshall, one of the environmental experts in the film, likened the B.P. oil spill's impact on Louisiana "...to a cold suffered by a cancer patient. The cold was painful and bad, but when that virus has run its course, cancer will still be killing the patient. The oil was a tragedy on top of a permanent disaster."

our guides

Don Davis, Windell Curole, and Bob Marshall guide us from the Mississippi River in Baton Rouge, through the marshes toward the mouth of the river, near where Hurricane Katrina made landfall in 2005. Along the way, we learn about man-made changes to the environment that may be ruining this unique landscape—one of the most fertile in the world—forever.

Click here (or copy into your browser) to link to Bob’s detailed descriptions of the current situation in: 1) Losing Ground, and 2) Louisiana's Moon Shot:

http://projects.propublica.org/louisiana/

http://projects.propublica.org/larestoration