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Fri Jul 11, 11:01 PM EDT
NEW ORLEANS — The nation's second oldest national wildlife refuge, a chain of barrier islands southeast of New Orleans, is in danger of being lost unless the islands are restored, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said Friday.
The Chandeleur and Breton islands have been battered by hurricanes in the past four years and they took a pounding from Hurricane Katrina, which "reduced the islands by one-half of their pre-storm size," the agency said in a new report.
The nation should pour money into restoring the refuge, the report said. "Current management has not been able to keep up with the rate of land loss," the report said. "Circumstances are now at a turning point. We can either let things continue to deteriorate or we can expand restoration efforts."
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