Tag: coastal restoration

Louisiana Building Jump Start Curriculum for Restoring the Coast

 

Louisiana Building Jump Start Curriculum for Restoring the Coast

According to this Nola.com article, and talk at the Louisiana Department of Education, there is dialog about upcoming programs for Environmental Protection and Sustainability. The article states, “This is a top priority in coastal communities, where nearly 2,000-square miles of landscape has disappeared into the Gulf over the past 80 years. The pathway aims to equip students with the knowledge and skills needed to address the state’s environmental challenges and build on the success of corresponding, existing pathways like maritime and skilled crafts.”

The article also says the jumpstart pathway program will include “courses in subjects like Louisiana deltaic systems, wetlands ecology and environmental management; require first-hand work experience, and culminate in a credential. Students who complete the pathway will be better positioned to assume careers in the field.”

For more information on the future of this pathway and the Jumpstart program, click here.

Southeastern Louisiana State Wants your Used Christmas Trees

 

Nola.com has recently stated that “Scientists at the Hammond-based University have used Christmas trees for marsh and wetlands restoration projects in the Manchac area for the past two decades.” Most people have not known that for almost 20 years, the University has collected over 36,000 trees that they use to deploy across the wetlands and marshes in South Louisiana. The trees help dissolve wave action along shorelines while collecting sediment. The article, which can be found here, also states that “the recycled trees provide protection against shoreline erosion and building new land to offset subsidence and sea-level rise as well as being used to create new habitats for plants and animals.”