The Honorable Miranda Ballentine, Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Installations, Environment, and Energy, receives a brief on the shoreline stabilization at Langley Air Force Base, Va., Feb. 18, 2016. A living shoreline is a strategy that uses strategic placements of plants, stones, sand or other structural media to prevent erosion and enhance wetland habitats. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Brittany E. N. Murphy)