Long Term: What to do in 50-100 years

New Orleans Reassessment
Written by Sara Barnowski

Based on the cumulative plans outlined here, within one hundred years New Orleans will no longer be as significant a port city as it is now.  The residential and industrial areas will have shrunk to levels that are environmentally sustainable.  Because of this many of the canals will have become obsolete and will only we harming the wetland ecosystems.  At this point it is important to assess the canal system and convert canals that are no longer in use to wetlands or wetland buffers.  Additionally, as the population decreases sections of housing and infrastructure will also become disused. The city can clear the material out of this area to be recycled for other projects.  As this space opens up natural processes should be used to remediate it so that it can be converted into green space or additional wetlands.  

Continue Wetland Restoration with Larger-scale Projects
Written by Samantha Fox

If our plan to research and develop restoration techniques is successful, by this time we should have an extensive list of what projects were successful in each type of wetland.  With funding from the profit of the scientific advancements of wetland uses, as well as any additional government funding, the results of the research done during the short and intermediate phases will be implemented into larger scale plans.  Of course, since these plans are expected to take place in the future, the wetlands of Louisiana will have to be examined once more to find where land is disappearing most.