Shrinking Lands for Tribal Communities

Figure 17.2

This figure appears in chapter 17 of the Climate Change Impacts in the United States: The Third National Climate Assessment report.

http://nca2014.globalchange.gov/report/regions/southeast/graphics/shrinking-lands-tribal-communities

Aerial photos of Isle de Jean Charles in Louisiana taken 45 years apart shows evidence of the effects of rising seas, sinking land, and human development. The wetlands adjacent to the Isle de Jean Charles community (about 60 miles south of New Orleans) have been disappearing rapidly since the photo on the left was taken in 1963. By 2008, after four major hurricanes, significant erosion, and alteration of the surrounding marsh for oil and gas extraction, open water surrounds the greatly reduced dry land. See Ch. 25: Coasts for more information. (Photo credit: USGS).

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This figure was created on November 18, 2013.

This figure was derived from webpage Before and After: 50 Years of Rising Tides and Sinking Marshes .

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