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Gulf's coastal wetlands surviving despite oil spill
Posted on 6/30/10 at 3:22 pm
Posted on 6/30/10 at 3:22 pm
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more than two months after the spill started, the view appears to confirm what many scientists are concluding: The wetlands, a haven for fish and seabirds and a flood buffer during the Gulf's notoriously vicious storms, "have come through so far pretty unscathed," Paul Kemp, director of the National Audubon Society's Louisiana Coastal Initiative, said after a recent 260-mile flight over most of the affected sections.
Quoted the good with the bad, so everyone can bitch.
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And the worst may be happening under the water. If oil seeps into the ground and suffocates roots, the plants will die and soil will wash away, worsening erosion that already swallows up to 30 square miles of Gulf coastal wetlands a year -- a football field every half-hour. Melanie Driscoll, an Audubon Society bird specialist, said the Barataria islands she has inspected were not as badly damaged as she'd feared. "But there could be a lot happening beneath the surface of the water or in the roots of the vegetation," she said. "It may not be the apocalypse right now, but it could be a slowly unfolding disaster."
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Posted on 6/30/10 at 4:13 pm to Bussemer
If this doesn't turn out to be an ecological disaster, environmentalists aren't going to be able to scare anyone anymore.
Posted on 6/30/10 at 4:16 pm to uway
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If this doesn't turn out to be an ecological disaster, environmentalists aren't going to be able to scare anyone anymore.
What about half the people that post on this board?
Posted on 6/30/10 at 9:19 pm to uway
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If this doesn't turn out to be an ecological disaster, environmentalists aren't going to be able to scare anyone anymore.
It's not going to be an ecological disaster because of the great job that everyone involved is doing to clean the oil up. This is the news that is not being reported by the "chicken little media"
Posted on 6/30/10 at 9:26 pm to Bussemer
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but it WILL be a slowly unfolding disaster.
And anyone who believes otherwise has obviously never used petro to kill weeds at their house.
Posted on 7/1/10 at 7:58 am to Bussemer
If the condition of the wetlands after 2 years REMOTELY resembles the condition of the wetlands after 2 months... You can count me among the absolutely shocked/eating my hat crowd.
We are on Catagory 2 or 3 hurricane away from a complete environmental unknown (a Catagory 4+ is a beating on the wetlands with or without the oil).
We are on Catagory 2 or 3 hurricane away from a complete environmental unknown (a Catagory 4+ is a beating on the wetlands with or without the oil).
Posted on 7/1/10 at 9:28 am to yurintroubl
I have said all along the impact on the marshes has been minimal at the moment.
The concern is the fisheries. What happens when BLuefin Tuna spawn on the continental shelf ()where the oil spill occurred) and the larvae float to an oil covered surface? What about tar balls littering one of the nations most improtant blue crab spawning grounds? What about food chain ramifications? Still an incredible amount of unknowns.
The concern is the fisheries. What happens when BLuefin Tuna spawn on the continental shelf ()where the oil spill occurred) and the larvae float to an oil covered surface? What about tar balls littering one of the nations most improtant blue crab spawning grounds? What about food chain ramifications? Still an incredible amount of unknowns.
Posted on 7/1/10 at 11:05 am to Bussemer
The people that think that since there aren't massive fish kills and marsh die offs yet everything is going to be fine crack me up.
Posted on 7/1/10 at 11:17 am to Mudminnow
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Still an incredible amount of unknowns.
Posted on 7/1/10 at 11:18 am to Alatgr
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The people that think that since there aren't massive fish kills and marsh die offs yet everything is going to be fine crack me up.
+1
BTW the well errrr volcano is still spewing.
Posted on 7/1/10 at 2:12 pm to MC123
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I have said all along the impact on the marshes has been minimal at the moment.
The concern is the fisheries. What happens when BLuefin Tuna spawn on the continental shelf ()where the oil spill occurred) and the larvae float to an oil covered surface? What about tar balls littering one of the nations most improtant blue crab spawning grounds? What about food chain ramifications? Still an incredible amount of unknowns.
Finally someone bringing up the true hazards of the oil leak.
Posted on 7/1/10 at 3:16 pm to omegaman66
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Finally someone bringing up the true hazards of the oil leak.
I invite you to take a look at Page 2 of this thread... (Granted I did not SPECIFICALLY mention oysters and other "bottom feeders" that will be unable to repopulate as long as oil contaminates their beds....)
Posted on 7/1/10 at 9:01 pm to yurintroubl
Not meaning to offend those that have brought up some of the problems the oil is causing. Just really pointing out that people are all worried about the wrong things.
Posted on 7/1/10 at 10:32 pm to omegaman66
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Not meaning to offend those that have brought up some of the problems the oil is causing. Just really pointing out that people are all worried about the wrong things.
Well I, for one, am not offended.
I think the number of posters whose entire livelihood is dependent on fishing, crabbing, harvesting oysters, etc...in the Gulf is rather small.
Along these lines - I think that unless you are directly affected personally or through friends/family who are - there's a good chance you can't see the forest for the trees and there are not many opportunities to hear from those affected first-hand on a large scale.**
For those only recently achieving their oil-epiphany - Cliff notes are hard to come by. The "right" things to worry about are not being reiterated in big fat bullet points at a rate that the average modern attention span will digest it.***
The fact that there's SO many people talking up so many angles with so many experts and studies and
THEN FACTOR IN all the poli- enviro- eco- economic- bio- PICK-A-PREFIX-POISON that seeks out viewer ratings... There needs to be a true neutral "Oil Spill for Newbies" website.
** I have noticed they've actually been getting some bolstered recognition by the national media in the last week or so... Brian Williams has definitely been doing his part to tell their story.
*** Just for fun - let's consider the results of studies regarding Influence of Repetition on Successful Message Transmission in Radio Advertising. It has been determined that you have to hear something...
~ at least 3 times over a relatively short span of time (let's say a week) just to differentiate it from all the other generalized noise.
~ at least 5 times before you get "preliminary recognition" of the message... some little thing starts to stick with you.
~ from 7-9 times before it is "recognized" completely and specific facts will start to remain in your memory.
~ Finally - Unless the message was in some way accentuated by a catchy tune or spoken rhythm - It would take listening to a radio ad spot 10-12 times before you actually learned and committed to memory a 10-digit phone number contained in its message.
With the volume of details presented daily - it's easy to see how so many are so focused on so many superfluous facts....
Yet I digress...
This post was edited on 7/1/10 at 10:34 pm
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