Community Based Habitat Restoration
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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.
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CRCL Community Based Restoration Projects
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| Cameron Beach Clean-Up
The Louisiana Gulf Response Involvement Team (GRIT), in partnership with Shell Oil Company, organized and implemented a beach cleanup on the Cameron Shoreline from Mae's Beach to Long Beach on July 21, 2010. The goals of the project were to (1) engage Shell Oil Company employees and community volunteers in a safe and meaningful activity as part of the oil spill response efforts and (2) remove natural and unnatural debris from the potential oil impact zone to reduce quantity and complexity of oil spill clean-up efforts.
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| Bayou L'Ours
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.
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| North Bayou Perot
The BP Oil Spill disaster is currently impacting Louisiana’s fragile wetlands. The oil spill is one event in a long line of man-made and natural impacts to the Louisiana coastline. Previous impacts have led to the loss of 2,300 square miles of land since the 1930’s. Although we do not yet know the fate of our oiled wetlands, we do know that wetland restoration is a key to the future of this unique and nationally important ecosystem, culture and economy.
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| Cameron Shoreline Beach Clean-Up
The Louisiana Gulf Response Involvement Team (GRIT) and BP planned and implemented a beach clean-up along the Cameron Shoreline at Holly Beach in Cameron Parish, Louisiana on June 4, 2010. The purpose of the project was to (1) engage volunteers in a safe environment in oil spill response efforts, (2) remove natural and unnatural debris from the potential oil impact zone to reduce quantity and complexity of oil spill clean-up efforts.
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| Big Branch
CRCL participated in a marsh restoration project in the open mud flats located on the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain within the USFWS Big Branch Marsh National Wildlife Refuge in St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana. The area provides essential protection for our inland communities and wetlands.
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| Grand Isle State Park Beach Clean-Up
The Louisiana Gulf Response Involvement Team (GRIT) and BP planned and implemented a beach clean-up at the Grand Isle State Park in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana on May 15, 2010. The purpose of the project was to (1) engage volunteers in a safe environment in oil spill response efforts, (2) remove natural and unnatural debris from the potential oil impact zone to reduce quantity and complexity of oil spill clean-up efforts.
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| Fifi Island
The Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana partnered with Jefferson Parish, NOAA and Entergy Corporation in a mangrove restoration project on the shoreline of Fifi Island in Grand Isle. Volunteers planted mangroves which will help to stabilize the barrier island and will provide structure and refuge for a variety of aquatic species. The planting will reduce sediment loss due to erosion by wind and wave action and will protect interior marshes and bays.
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| Bayou Segnette Cypress Planting
On March 12, 2010, the Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana partnered with Jefferson Parish and Entergy Corporation for a cypress restoration project along Bayou Segnette in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana. The objective of the project was to increase habitat quality and promote a healthy cypress forest along the Bayou Segnette Waterway. The restored cypress forest will provide critical habit for wildlife and provide storm protection to adjacent marsh and camp sites.
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| Bringing Nature Back II
On Saturday, January 16th the Coalition To Restore Coastal Louisiana partnered with Entergy Corporation, Restore America's Estuaries, Audubon Nature Institute, RPM Ecosystems and Natural Resource Conservation Service to plant approximately 500 pots of various species of wetland trees, including bald cypress, red maple and pecan.
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| Beach Restoration in Cameron Parish
On September 19th, the Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana in partnership with Cheniere Energy and Restore America’s Estuaries planted approximately 5,000 pots of seashore paspalum and bitter panicum along the Cameron Parish shoreline.
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| Beach Restoration on Elmer's Island
On August 28th and 29th, the Coalition To Restore Coastal Louisiana and the Crescent Soil and Water Conservation District, with funding through NOAA’s Community-Based Restoration Program planted approximately 5,000 pots of marsh hay cordgrass and bitter panicum along the shoreline of Elmer’s Island in Grand Isle.
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Cameron Parish Shoreline- July 2009
The Coalition To Restore Coastal Louisiana and the Gulf Coast Soil and Water Conservation District, with funding through NOAA’s Community-Based Restoration Program and the State’s Vegetative Planting Partnership, planted over 8,000 four inch pots of bitter panicum (Panicum amarum var. Amarum) and over 2,000 four inch pots of seashore paspalum (Paspalum vaginatum).
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Rockefeller Wildlife Refuge
In just 3 days, nearly 40 volunteers from across the coast of Louisiana have planted 10,500 plugs of smooth cordgrass to restore nearly 4 miles of marsh along the shoreline in Rockefeller Wildlife Refuge. The Coalition would like to especially thank all of the volunteers, as well as staff of the Natural Resources Conservation Service and the Rockefeller Refuge, for dedicating their time and effort to this project.
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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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