As lawmakers consider expensive plans to restore Louisiana’s vanishing coastal wetlands, a new study suggests that hurricanes themselves can do the job.. The researchers estimated how much sediment Hurricanes Katrina and Rita washed ashore in 2005 and have concluded that hurricanes could supply all the silt and other inorganic sediment that healthy wetlands in this region need.

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