Improved Dune Plants Goal Of AgCenter Research
Hundreds of sea oat plants bent in the breeze on a sandy beach as LSU AgCenter researchers walked among them, looking for plants with potential to help stem erosion on Louisiana’s Gulf Coast. |
2008 Bayou Fest Trash Bash: Help Save Louisiana's Wetlands One Piece of Trash at a Time!
Help save Louisiana's wetlands one piece of trash at a time. At 9:00 A.M. on October 5, AWCC member Amber Latiolais and Shelley Martin will host a Trash Bash at Vermilionville in Lafayette. Trash pickups are an easy way to help protect Louisiana's wetlands from non-point source pollution and better the water quality. Plus, who likes seeing trash stack up in a picturesque wetland landscape?! All you need to bring is yourself and as many friends as you want. Any volunteers will be grac |
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AWCC Rockefeller Planting 2008
Rockefeller Planting 2008: In late May, AWCC members from around the state teamed up once again to try to protect Louisiana's coast. Approxiamately 18 AWCC members planted 4,000 plugs of Spartina Alterniflora. The marshgrass was planted in Pecan Island on the terraces owned by the Vermillion Corps. Thank you to Judge Edwards for allowing us on his property and to Mark Shirley for providing oversight of the event. |
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