On Saturday, October 18, AWCC member Gary Decossas and 10 volunteers from the St.Bernard 4-H Junior Leadership Club helped in clearing a 1/2 mile stretch of Bayou Bienvenue!

On October 13, approximately 18 AWCC members from around the state came together to clean up Lake D'Arbonne State Park.

AWCC members Amber Latiolais and Shelley Martin recently completed a bat house project! On July 25, 2008, at the Zoo of Acadiana, the two AWCC members, Jungle Camp participants, and other community volunteers worked together to construct and put up bat houses.

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

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.

Two AWCC Members are organizing a Bald Cypress Tree Planting on Aug. 11th at Jimmie Davis State Park

AWCC members and volunteers will be building and planing bat boxes at the Lafayette Zoo on Friday July 25, 2008.

Members serving in Southeast LA for 2008

Members serving in Southwest LA for 2008

AWCC Members need volunteers to help plant marsh grass in Cameron Parish