Marshes Could Recover from Oil Contamination
August 17, 2010
August 17, 2010
BATON ROUGE, La., Aug. 17 -- The Louisiana State University Ag Center issued the following news release:
With the capping of the Deepwater Horizon and the ending of new oil washing into Louisiana's coastal wetlands and marshes, observers are reporting plants sprouting in areas that had been denuded by the oil spill. And that shouldn't be a surprise, according to Gary Breitenbeck, a plant scientist with the LSU AgCenter.
When oil contacts the above-ground . . .
With the capping of the Deepwater Horizon and the ending of new oil washing into Louisiana's coastal wetlands and marshes, observers are reporting plants sprouting in areas that had been denuded by the oil spill. And that shouldn't be a surprise, according to Gary Breitenbeck, a plant scientist with the LSU AgCenter.
When oil contacts the above-ground . . .