| Community Based Habitat Restoration |
Since 2000, the Coalition has organized restoration projects joining with local partners and utilizing funding received through an initiative of Restore America's Estuaries and NOAA’s Community-Based Habitat Restoration Program.
The Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana is a member of Restore America’s Estuaries a non-profit organization formed in 1995 as an alliance of eleven regional conservation organizations working together to restore estuary habitats nationwide. |
| CRCL Community Based Restoration Projects |
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Louisiana Audubon Nature Center Planting
Over 150 local and national volunteers participated in a community-based habitat restoration project at the Audubon Louisiana Nature Center to begin the restoration of natural wetland forests, including bald cypress swamps, damaged during Hurricane Katrina. |
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Penny Rhodes Terracing Project
Volunteers from communities located throughout Plaquemines Parish convened in December of 2004 near Venice, Louisiana to help plant marsh grasses on Penny Rhodes Island in an effort to restore eroded wetlands ravaged by hurricanes and tropical storms. |
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Lafourche Parish Wisner Marsh Restoration Project
In May of 2003 the Coalition worked with a number of partners on the Lafourche Parish Wisner Restoration Project. The project was an approximately 2,000 acre restoration project in Fourchon, Louisiana located within the Edward Wisner Donation (EWD) properties, which represent 35,000 acres of wetlands throughout southern Louisiana. |
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Audubon Rainey Wildlife Sanctuary Terracing Project
The Rainey project constructed and planted approximately 36,000 linear feet of earthen terraces within the Paul J. Rainey Wildlife Sanctuary, the National Audubon Society’s oldest and largest wildlife refuge. The terraces were constructed in open water areas of the refuge that had previously been healthy marsh. |
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