I'm writing in response to Dr. Paul Frey's Aug. 7, "Wetlands panel chief responds" letter. While not a chair, I, too, participated on the Governor's Coastal Wetland Forest Conservation and Use Advisory Panel. Panel participants were from diverse groups.

By BOB ANDERSON The Amite River has lost six miles of its length because of erosion, and the channel has become more shallow, according to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

By CHRIS GAUTREAU When developers found it, the main inhabitants of this 24-acre sliver of land at the fork of the Amite and Old Amite rivers were goats. In fact, it was known as "Goat Island" among Port Vincent locals when Dequincy developer Ray Franks bought the island several years ago.

By MIKE DUNNE RESERVE - Floyd "Bosco" Michel has watched grasslands where he once hunted deer in the swamps around Lake Maurepas turn into open water. The Maurepas Swamp is disappearing, he says.

By MIKE DUNNE Curtis Sutherland said ski boat wakes are eroding a channel dug across his family's Amite River waterfront property decades ago and now he wants to put up a floating gate to stop traffic. But the Louisiana attorney general recently said Sutherland has no such right. The U.S.