Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works, J.P. Woodley, and EPA Assistant Administrator for Water, Tracy Mehan, will tour areas of Louisiana’s coast by air on Thursday, October 16, as they are briefed on the state’s dramatic land loss and efforts to stop it. Scientists and state officials will fly the group over vanishing marshes and restoration sites, landing at the Caenarvon Fresh Water Diversion Project.

The New Orleans District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Louisiana Department of Natural Resources today held an historic signing ceremony in Baton Rouge to launch a major coastal wetlands study.

Coastal parish officials across the state were invited last week to join state Department of Natural Resources (DNR) Secretary Scott Angelle for briefings on coastal matters with members of Louisiana’s congressional delegation in Washington, D.C.

The first day at the office, but the second day began out in the field, so it was for the new state Department of Natural Resources (DNR) Secretary Scott A. Angelle. Having resigned his local government presidency in St. Martin Parish on Monday, Secretary Angelle hit the ground running on Tuesday and moved into Governor Blanco’s regime, officially taking the reign at the State Capitol Park Complex/LaSalle Office Building at DNR.