The ecology of delta marshes The ecology of delta marshes of coastal Louisiana : a community profile ecologyofdeltama00goss Year: 1984 Mississippi River did much to develop a sense of permanence and encourage industrial expansion. The levees also promoted waterborne transportation by channelling the Mississippi River and its Dredging to create new ones These fostered and stimulated distributaries, channels and commonplace. transportation deepen became more further commercial expansion. New industries developed based on Louisiana's coastal resources. The late 1800's and early 1900's were a tim
The ecology of delta marshes The ecology of delta marshes of coastal Louisiana : a community profile ecologyofdeltama00goss Year: 1984 Mississippi River did much to develop a sense of permanence and encourage industrial expansion. The levees also promoted waterborne transportation by channelling the Mississippi River and its Dredging to create new ones These fostered and stimulated distributaries, channels and commonplace. transportation deepen became more further commercial expansion. New industries developed based on Louisiana's coastal resources. The late 1800's and early 1900's were a time of widespread harvesting of the extensive cypress forests of the coast. The fishing and fur-trapping industries expanded. But the most significant event in the state's life was the discovery of oil in Jennings in 1901. Oil reserves in concentrated around salt Louisiana are domes that occur across the coastal wetlands and on the continental shelf. The inland fields were developed first. An enormous expansion of petroleum demand began in the war years of 1941-45. This resulted in dredging thousands of miles of canals through the coastal wetlands for access to drilling sites and for pipelines, constructing enormous refineries and petrochemical processing facilities, and secondarily stimulating many other industries (Fi-gures 2 and 3). As oil and gas reserves were depleted in the inland marshes, production moved offshore. This shift increased pressure for more and deeper navigation canals to link the offshore rigs with land-based facilities. Production of oil and gas reached its peak in 1971 and has since been declining (Figure 4). However, the search for new oil continues, and wetland modification has by no means stopped. Louisiana's wetland management problems continue to be related to its Figure 2. The oil storage facility for the nation's only superport is constructed in a salt dome in the middle of a Mississippi delta brackish marsh. The maze of pipes is the primary aboveg
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