MRGO Habitat Loss & Transition (USACE 1999)
• Lost, destroyed, or severely altered                                         
– 1500 acres cypress swamps and levee forest
– 3400 acres fresh/intermediate marsh
– 10300 acres brackish marsh
– 4200 acres saline marsh
• Habitat transition                                         
– 11000 acres fresh/intermediate to brackish
– 19000 acres brackish to saline
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