I keep hearing that the loss of wetlands contributed to the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina. Can a swamp really save a city? -Aileen Perkinson, Asheville, N.C.
On December 8, 2004, more than eight months before Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast, The Washington Post ran an editorial by Lousiana Governor Kathleen Babineaux Blanco, titled “Saving America’s Wetlands.” Referring to a recent near miss from Hurricane Ivan, she wrote, with disconcerting prescience:
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