COASTAL ROOTS
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Helping Hands

LSU Coastal Roots:
Seedling Nursery Program for Wetland Restoration


What is Coastal Roots?

Students from 4th grade through high school in south Louisiana are taking part in this project by establishing wetland plant nurseries at their schools.  Students are growing native plant seedlings that they will plant in a coastal habitat restoration project in south Louisiana.

Students are working with a variety of seeds, including the water oak, southern baldcypress, southern wax myrtle, black mangrove, red mulberry, and Spartina alterniflora grass - just to name a few.

In the spring and fall of 2007, 708 students in grades 4-12 and 110 adults/chaperone participated in 16 restoration plantings at sites in Louisiana. They transplanted a total of 2,929 tree seedlings and 6,230 grass plugs.  To see images from each of these plantings, click here!

 

Click here to view the video of some inspired St. Joseph Academy students rapping about Coastal Roots!
 (coming soon!)


Questions about this project? Contact:
Pam Blanchard LSU Dept. of Educational Theory, Policy, & Practice, College of Education [225/ 578-2297]
Ed Bush LSU Center for Plant, Environmental, and Soil Sciences [225/ 578-1044]
David Bourgeois LA Sea Grant Marine Fisheries Agent, LSU AgCenter [504/ 632-6852]

Funded by:
Louisiana Sea Grant College Program