Volunteers spend their spring break helping restore wetlands in New Orleans!
Student groups from Stanford University and Middlebrow College in Vermont came out on March 24th to volunteer to help plant marsh grass and clean up trash along Bayou St. John in New Orleans. Volunteers planted the marsh grass Spartina alternator to help prevent coastal erosion and picked up trash along the bayou to help reduce pollution in the area.
Thank you SO much to our volunteers for giving back during their spring break!
Bayou St. John is a valuable and historic natural resource that runs from Lake Pontchartrain through New Orleans. It supplies water to beautiful areas like New Orleans City Park and is important to the cultural history of the area. But because of neglect and damage from recent hurricanes, the bayou no longer has plants along its banks to hold down sediment, leaving them susceptible to erosion. It has also become heavily littered.
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