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