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      <title>Functions and Values of Wetlands in Louisiana</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[AWCC member Micah Leonard is looking for volunteers to help restore a portion of the marshes in Avery Island, La. - Full Content set to .]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 20:29:14 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[There are 10 members serving in southeast Louisiana ranging from Terrebone Parish to Plaquemines Parish. - Full Content set to .]]></description>
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      <title>How To Apply To The AWCC AmeriCorps Program</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The AWCC AmeriCorps Program is always looking for individuals that are willing to serve for 11 months and give back to their communities. If you are interested in becoming part of the program, feel free to download the more detailed "AWCC Position Description" and/or the "AWCC AmeriCorps Member Year 1 Application." - Full Content set to .]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 20:01:21 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Come by the "World of Wonder" booth at the AgCenter's AgMagic booth at the State Fair of Louisiana. - Full Content set to .]]></description>
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      <title>Avery Island Restoration Planting</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:47:59 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Volunteers from across southern Louisiana met at Avery Island to help transplant marsh grass. - Full Content set to .]]></description>
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      <title>Northern Louisiana AWCC Members</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 20:43:11 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Wetland Conservation is not just a coastal issue.  Check out the members serving in North Louisiana! - Full Content set to .]]></description>
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      <title>AWCC Members Meet Governor</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[AWCC members Ethan Graves and Alicia Scallan present Governor Jindall with bat boxes and wood duck boxes that will be used in later restoration projects. - Full Content set to .]]></description>
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      <title>Researchers Evaluating Grass For Levee Protection</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 28 Jul 2006 20:28:18 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Scientists from the LSU AgCenter this week started planting grass as the first step in a research project designed to evaluate its ability to protect earthen levees on the Gulf Coast. The plant, which already is used widely for erosion control and is known to have some repellent qualities to termites, is vetiver grass. - Full Content set to .]]></description>
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      <title>America's Wetland Conservation Corps</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 21 Jun 2007 21:25:18 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[The AWCC is made up of 18 AmeriCorps members working throughout Louisiana (from Caddo to Lafourche Parish) to promote wetland conservation and environmental awareness through volunteerism and outreach education. - Full Content set to .]]></description>
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      <title>Portrait of an Estuary</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 17 Feb 2005 20:09:37 GMT</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 19:10:42 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>HCollis@agcenter.lsu.edu (Hilary Collis)</dc:creator>
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      <title>Improving Farm Effluent Water Quality with a Constructed Wetland</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2005 13:42:01 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[The use of a constructed wetland to improve effluent water quality is a potentially valuable tool for agriculture in Louisiana. - Full Content set to .]]></description>
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      <title>Who needs the Beach?!  Spend spring break with AWCC</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 16:42:54 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[College students from California and Vermont volunteer with the AWCC to help restore Bayou St. John. - Full Content set to .]]></description>
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      <title>Lafayette Members Teach Fishing Clinic</title>
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      <title>Marsh Maneuvers Helps Young People Learn About Valuable Coastal Resources</title>
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      <title>Help the AWCC Install Christmas Tree Fencing</title>
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      <title>Install Wood Duck Boxes in Lincoln Parish</title>
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      <title>Coastal Louisiana and South Florida: A Comparative Wetland Inventory</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[One of the biggest questions that has arisen in recent years involves the apparent disparity in federal restoration funding provided for the Florida Everglades versus that provided for coastal Louisiana. This document uses published reports and secondary data to develop a parallel comparison of Florida and Louisiana wetlands at the state, regional, program and resource levels. - Full Content set to .]]></description>
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      <title>Fisheries Implications of Freshwater Re-introductions</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[An historical overview of Louisiana fisheries in the context of pre- and post-levee construction on the Mississippi River. Data from the Caernarvon Freshwater Diversion is used to describe the relationship between freshwater re-introduction and estuarine fisheries productivity. The report characterizes the conflict between Louisiana’s short-term and long-term goals of coastal restoration and coastal fisheries management. - Full Content set to .]]></description>
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      <title>Stewardship Incentives for Louisiana’s Coastal Landowners</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[More than 75% of Louisiana’s coastal wetlands are privately owned, yet the majority of restoration funding provided through federal and state initiatives is directed toward large-scale, public restoration projects. This report compares and contrasts the programmatic and economic aspects of the coastal and inland models of wetland restoration that have evolved in Louisiana over the past decade. - Full Content set to .]]></description>
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      <title>Closing the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet (MRGO): Environmental and Economic Considerations</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 17 Jan 2005 18:47:32 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[This document provides a synoptic overview of this 40-year-old navigation channel from project inception through modern day.  Economic and environmental impacts related to the MRGO are documented for St. Bernard Parish and potential restoration scenarios are described.  Additional information is provided on the time and financial resources required to fully address the environmental degradation caused by the MRGO. - Full Content set to .]]></description>
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      <title>Planting at City Park NO</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 20:51:59 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[The AWCC is looking for volunteers to help with a Planting Restoration Project at New Orleans City Park - Full Content set to .]]></description>
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      <title>Shreveport Wood Duck Project!</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:40:57 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Come join up with Natalie Hunsicker, American’s Wetlands Conservation Corps member ,and Sci Port Louisiana Science Center in Shreveport to help construct and put up wood duck boxes. - Full Content set to .]]></description>
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      <dc:creator>HCollis@agcenter.lsu.edu (Hilary Collis)</dc:creator>
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      <title>Duck, Duck, Box!: St. Bernard Parish Wood Duck Project</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:50:20 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Come Help Save the Wood Ducks in St.Bernard Parish.On November 24th, 2008, Gary Decossas and St.Bernard Parish 4-H Junior Leadership Club will go to St.Bernard State Park to help put up Wood Duck Boxes. - Full Content set to .]]></description>
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      <dc:creator>HCollis@agcenter.lsu.edu (Hilary Collis)</dc:creator>
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      <title>America's WETLAND</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 24 Aug 2007 21:10:09 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[The America's WETLAND Foundation through the Campaign is raising awareness of the impact of Louisiana's wetland loss and increase support for efforts to conserve and save coastal Louisiana. - Full Content set to .]]></description>
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      <dc:creator>HCollis@agcenter.lsu.edu (Hilary Collis)</dc:creator>
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      <title>AmeriCorps</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 24 Aug 2007 21:15:51 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[AmeriCorps is a network of local, state, and national service programs that connects more than 70,000 Americans each year in intensive service to meet our country’s critical needs in education, public safety, health, and the environment. - Full Content set to .]]></description>
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      <dc:creator>HCollis@agcenter.lsu.edu (Hilary Collis)</dc:creator>
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      <title>Beach Sweep</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The America’s Wetland Conservation Corps is leading a team to help pick up litter as part of the Lake Pontchartrain Beach Sweep. - Full Content set to .]]></description>
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      <title>Lafitte Terrace Planting Sept. 8th!</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2007 16:12:04 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Get involved and volunteer to help the America's Wetland Conservation Corps create wetland habitat in Lafitte, Louisiana, on September 8th. - Full Content set to .]]></description>
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      <dc:creator>HCollis@agcenter.lsu.edu (Hilary Collis)</dc:creator>
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      <title>Protecting Coastal Wetland Forests: What Can You Do to Help?</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 31 Jul 2007 16:13:04 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Louisiana’s coastal wetland forests are of tremendous economic, ecological, cultural and recreational value. But many acres of these forests have disappeared over the past century, and many more are being degraded or lost each year. - Full Content set to .]]></description>
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      <dc:creator>LBenedict@agcenter.lsu.edu (Linda F. Benedict)</dc:creator>
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      <title>Restoration Planting at Rockefeller Refuge</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[AWCC members participated in a restoration planting event at Rockefeller Refuge on May 18th.  The members planted a half mile stretch of canal bank with Spartina Alterniflora to help stabalize the bank and minimize erosion. - Full Content set to .]]></description>
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      <dc:creator>HCollis@agcenter.lsu.edu (Hilary Collis)</dc:creator>
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      <title>Rockefeller Training: May 2007</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 21 Jun 2007 19:58:57 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[AWCC members attended wetland training at Rockefeller Refuge from May 16 to 18th, 2007. - Full Content set to .]]></description>
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      <dc:creator>HCollis@agcenter.lsu.edu (Hilary Collis)</dc:creator>
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      <title>Camp Azzie</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2007 19:42:35 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[America's Wetland Conservation Corps members will be assisting at Camp Azzie, a camp for children with asthma. The camp runs from July 15 to July 19, 2007. - Full Content set to .]]></description>
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      <dc:creator>HCollis@agcenter.lsu.edu (Hilary Collis)</dc:creator>
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      <title>Baldcypress Site Relationships and Silviculture</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 27 Jun 2006 17:40:52 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Regional increases in flooding are likely to reduce the productivity of baldcypress-water tupelo swamps in coastal Louisiana. Although these trees are merchantable for lumber production, it will be important to design appropriate management plans for these sites. - Full Content set to .]]></description>
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      <dc:creator>LBenedict@agcenter.lsu.edu (Linda F. Benedict)</dc:creator>
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      <title>Marsh Maneuvers Participants See Devastation Along Coast</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2006 17:47:15 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[LSU AgCenter coastal resources agent Mark Shirley had hoped to bring a group of students back to a plot near Holly Beach where they had planted marsh grass during the 4-H Marsh Maneuvers program in July. But, after driving for several miles on La. 82 between Holly Beach and Johnson’s Bayou last weekend, Shirley gave up on his hope to find the transplanted grass, which apparently fell victim to Hurricane Rita’s wrath. - Full Content set to .]]></description>
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      <dc:creator>MShirley@agcenter.lsu.edu (Mark G. Shirley)</dc:creator>
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