This reports documents the implementation of Section 303(a) of the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration Act (CWPPRA) (PL 101-646). The study prepared a comprehensive restoration plan for coastal Louisiana.

Caring for Coastal Wetlands is a short, colorful companion to a technical report submitted to Congress by the Louisiana Wetlands Conservation and Restoration Task Force. The 1997 Evaluation Report to the U.S. Congress on the Effectiveness of Louisiana Coastal Wetlands Restoration Projects. It provides a brief history of wetland legislation and overviews of wetland values and problems associated with wetland loss. Most of the booklet, however, describes the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration Act, passed by Congress in 1990: how funds are provided for wetland restoration to Louisiana and other states, how restoration projects are designed and what their progress was through 1997, and how the Act provides for future monitoring of wetland restoration projects.