Restorethemississippiriverdelta.org discusses the history of the Great Barrier Reef of America, which stretches along the Southern Coast of Louisiana. In the full article, which you can find here, you can learn about how the Louisiana Coast was maintained and protected dating all the way back to 1492 when Columbus sailed into his new world.

As stated in the article, after discussing various account of different explorers, “Imagine that you were there with these explorers. Imagine what it would look like to see this massive oyster reef. We can learn a lot from the past about how to restore coastal Louisiana into the future. We can build new great reefs, which will create and maintain vast marine ecosystems while protecting our coasts from climate change’s rising seas.”