Corps to miss deadline for plan to protect La.

Patrick Williams, a fishery biologist with the National Oceanic and Atomspheric Administration (NOAA), walks in the smooth cordgrass of West Grand Terre Island, La., on Friday June 16, 2006. The state is constructing storm barriers and new land to keep the coast from washing away. Hurricanes like Katrina and Rita have contributed to the loss of 2,000 square miles of Louisiana coast since the 1930's.