Sturgis 1
Sean Sturgis
Engl 102-Sec 501
Professor Dennis Formento
August 29, 2016
Southern Louisiana Coastal Land Loss
There is a small-minded crisis going on in southern Louisiana. That problem is the
simple, but devastating fact that coastal Louisiana is losing land. The problem is alarming
because the rate of land being lost is about 16 square miles a year, or “a football field of land
