Due to their high land component, vineyards tend to be low cash-return businesses and are generally more difficult to sell than other types of assets.

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In coastal areas of the United States, offshore resources tend to dwarf the land-based wind component with the exception of California, Texas, Maine and a few other states.

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"We're kind of the poster child for the infrastructure component of what's at stake in the coastal land loss issue, " Ted Falgout, director of Port Fourchon, told the Louisiana Explorer in 2003.

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