Dealing with an encroaching Gulf of Mexico requires a lot of different approaches, and a new one from a wetlands-advocacy group has some potential. America’s Wetland’s effort, outlined in a story on today’s front page, seeks to address the inevitable decline in property values that will occur after FEMA releases new flood-risk maps. It is...

A wetlands-advocacy group is working on a program that seeks to limit a decline in local property values that could result after new flood insurance maps are released. Terrebonne and Lafourche’s maps have been delayed for nearly a decade after the parishes appealed drafts that showed sinking land, rising seas and coastal erosion have increased...