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No Forest for the Weary
Gulf State forests ravaged by Hurricane Katrina, says study |
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16 Nov 2007 |
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| Posted at 12:04 PM on 16 Nov 2007 The impact of Hurricane Katrina on the people of the Gulf States is well known (if occasionally ignored), but the storm also brutalized the region's forests. A new study published in Science reports that Katrina destroyed some 320 million trees in Mississippi and Louisiana, leading to a laundry list of problems. Federal funding for replanting has been slow in coming, and many pri ... |
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| Topics: deforestation, Louisiana, Mississippi, news, scientific research, severe weather (all these topics) |
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