**Please note that no refunds will be given after January 6, 2008.
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The Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana is hosting the Chenier Plain Symposium on January 8-9, 2009 at the Lake Charles Civic Center. The symposium is a two day conference to address the scientific, policy and stakeholder issues relevant to expediting comprehensive coastal protection and restoration opportunities in Southwest Louisiana. The symposium is also designed to address many of the preliminary issues anticipated in the Southwest Coastal Louisiana Study authorized by Congress in WRDA 2007. There will be approximately 20 presentations by experts in their field from both Louisiana and Texas discussing the history of the Chenier Plain, the resources available for restoration, successes and failures in restoration techniques, innovative new ideas for restoration and protection, community resiliency, wildlife and fisheries issues, and hurricane impacts form both Hurricane Rita and the recent impacts of Hurricane Ike.
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The Chenier Plain encompasses six basins and extends from Vermilion Bay, Louisiana west to East Bay, Texas. The Chenier Plain was built during the last 4,000 years by sediment discharged from the Mississippi River to the Gulf of Mexico that were then reworked by Gulf Coast wave action and deposited on the gulf shoreline into chenier ridges and interior marshes. The Chenier Plain wetlands in Louisiana and Texas naturally function very differently than the coastal wetlands found in southeast Louisiana. The Deltaic plain functions with a significant estuarine gradient. In contrast, the Chenier Plain is dominated by processes constantly shifting sediment parallel to the shore and limiting the interaction of the gulf with interior marshes. Human alterations to the landscape have drastically changed the natural processes that built the land and open up the interior marshes to salinity and storm surge impacts. The impact of Hurricane Rita resulted in 111 square miles of land loss, which accounts for 32% of the land loss in this area in over 50 years (Barras et al. 2008)
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Register to Attend the Symposium
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Registration is required to attend this two day event. You can register for a single day or for both days by registering online or by printing and returning a registration form available below.
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| America’s Best Suites
401 Lake Shore Drive
Lake Charles, LA
337-439-2444
$80 government rate – MUST show ID
$99 standard queen/group rate
Release date of 12/20/08
Reserving 35 rooms
Group block # AK00119236G
Good for nights of 1/7/08 and 1/8/08
Best Western Richmond Suites Hotel
2600 Moeling Street
Lake Charles, LA
337-433-5213 or toll free at 1-800-643-2582
Standard King or Queen $80
King Mini Suite $90
King Deluxe Suite $100
Release date of 12/7/08
Ask for group rate for Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana
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