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On July 13, 2010, the Gulf Response Involvement Team, with the help of our partners and volunteers from the community, planted 1500 California Bulrush (Schoenoplectus californicus) and 500 Smooth Cordgrass (Spartina alterniflora) along the shoreline of Bayou L'ours in Galliano, Louisiana.
Due to the effects of subsidence in the area and the altering of the landscape by human economic development, the marshlands of Bayou L'ours are rapidly turning into open water, threatening the natural habitats of many wildlife species as well as endangering the livelihoods of fishing communities that depend upon the stability of this fragile area. Unfortunately, this land loss also allows the already ravaging effects of the BP oil spill to potentially have an even further effect in interior wetlands like Bayou L'ours. In order to help reverse this process, GRIT in partnership with USDA Natural Resource Conservation Service and the tireless help of volunteers from the community ventured out in very wet and muddy conditions to plant 2000 California Bulrush and Smooth Cordgrass along the shoreline of Bayou L'ours.
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