COASTAL ROOTS
Participating
Schools
LSU
Coastal Roots:
Planting Partner Sites (as of
December
2007)
LSU Coastal Roots Schools are partnered with a long-term planting site partner. Schools with work with this partner site to grow plants needed specifically by the site to restore habitat at the site. Teachers and students will be able to return to the site on a yearly basis to see the benefits of their past work.
Long-Term Planting Site/Partners
Iberia Parish:
(3, 18) Marsh Island – bitter panicum
(11) Avery Island – baldcypress, nuttall oak
Jefferson Parish:
(9, 13, 15, 17) Bayou Segnette State Park – baldcypress, swamp red maple
(2) Grand Isle Sate Park – southern waxmyrtle, live oak
(16) Grand Isle State Park – bitter panicum
(11) Fifi Island – black mangrove
St. Charles Parish:
(7, 14) Wetland Watcher Park – baldcypress
St. Mary Parish:
(1) Patterson State Museum, Maple Bayou Hunt Club - baldcypress, nuttall oak
St. Tammany Parish:
(4, 5, 8) Fontainebleau State Park – longleaf pine, baldcypress
(19) Fairview Riverside State Park – loblolly pine, baldcypress
Terrebonne Parish:
(6) Montegut Levee – Spartina alterniflora
To be determined:
(10) Buchanan Elementary
(12) JH Williams Middle
(20) Metairie Academy for Advanced Studies
(21) Lusher Charter - Willow Campus
(22) Isadore Newman
School Key
(1) Pierre Part Elementary (Pierre Part, Assumption Parish) 2001
(2) South Lafourche High School (Galliano, Lafourche Parish) 2001
(3) Abbeville High (Abbeville; Vermilion Parish) 2001
(4) St. Joseph’s Academy (Baton Rouge, East Baton Rouge Parish) 2001
(5) St. Louis, King of France (Baton Rouge, East Baton Rouge Parish) 2002
(6) Montegut Middle (Montegut; Terrebonne Parish) 2002
(7) Harry Hurst Middle (Destrehan; St. Charles Parish) 2003
(8) Our Lady of Mercy (Baton Rouge, East Baton Rouge Parish) 2003
(9) St. James Parish Science and Math Magnet (Vacherie, St. James Parish) 2004
(10) Buchanan Elementary (Baton Rouge, East Baton Rouge Parish) 2004
(11) Lafayette Middle (Lafayette; Lafayette Parish) 2005
(12) J.H. Williams Middle (Abbeville; Vermilion Parish) 2006
(13) Albert Cammon Middle (St. Rose; St. Charles Parish) 2006
(14) Luling Elementary (Luling; St. Charles Parish) 2006(15) R.K. Smith Middle (Luling, St. Charles Parish) 2006
(16) Jackson High (Jackson; East Feliciana Parish) 2006
(17) St. Martin Episcopal (Metairie; Jefferson Parish) 2007
(18) Erath High (Erath; Vermilion Parish) 2007
(19) Christ Episcopal (Covington, St. Tammany Parish) 2008
(20) Metairie Academy for Advanced Studies (Metairie, Jefferson Parish) 2008
(21) Lusher Charter - Willow Campus (New Orleans, Orleans Parish) 2008
(22) Isadore Newman (New Orleans, Orleans Parish) 2008