Avery Island Restoration Planting
Volunteers Give Back
to Help Restore Marshes on
Avery Island
On July 31, more than 20 volunteers came out to help support the AWCC and plant marsh grass along an eroding area of Avery Island. Volunteers pulled over 4,000 plugs of the marsh grass California bullwhip from a healthy area of the marsh and then transplanted these plugs to a degraded area.
We can't thank the volunteers enough who came out to give back to Louisiana's coast!
More big thanks to the McIlhenny family for letting us come onto their property, to Heath Romero for organizing boat transportation and driving us out to the sites, and to the America's WETLAND Foundation for helping us advertise the event.
Finally, great job to the AWCC members Lindsay Bordelon and Ashlee Marceaux, who helped lead the event. | | Thanks to all the volunteers who came out!!! |
| | Volunteers leave the boat to help pull grass from a healthy area of marsh. Plugs will be transplated into an area of marsh that is eroding. |
| | Partner up, and things will get done more quickly! |
| | AWCC member and leader of the planting Lindsay Bordelon hard at work. |
| | Volunteers working hard to help save the coast. |
| | | After all the hard work, volunteers took a "behind the scenes" tour of the Tabasco plantation. |
| | AWCC members work with volunteers to begin unloading the grass. |
| | A volunteer helping to plant an area of the marsh. |
| | Work or play? Maybe both . . |
| | Two volunteers prepare to plant a few stems of marsh grass. |
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| Last Updated: 9/2/2009 2:31:34 PM |
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