Nearly 1.5M people in Louisiana depend on this strip of marsh. But it needs saving.

The New Orleans Land Bridge, a critical marshland barrier protecting 1.5 million people in Louisiana from storm surges and floods, is rapidly disappearing due to erosion, sinking land, and sea level rise. A $101 million project aims to restore part of the 57,000-acre land bridge, which separates Lake Pontchartrain from the Gulf of Mexico and is vital for safeguarding the New Orleans levee system.