Today has probably been the best day in New Orleans so far. It was a beautiful rainy day and we all got to see really big alligators up close and personal. We then attended an event here in NOLA known as China Lights and finished off the day by attending an awesome jazz club,eating beignets […]
This morning we woke up at the Woodland Plantation. Foster, the owner, gave us a tour of the property and took us to feed the resident alligators. The rest of the day was thunder and lightning, so we ate lunch, made our way to the hotel, then went to the New Orleans Chinese Lights Exhibit. […]
Our field work continued on Monday after we finished our first trail.
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Sometimes, especially in the field, you do what needs to be done in order to identify plant species.
Today we fed alligators and helped a environmental and historical activist restore a gazebo. Next we went the Chinese lights festival and saw light art in a botanical garden, there we also saw plate spinners, jugglers and the art of face changin…
Had a great day making a garden. It’s wonderful doing good for someone. It was a lot of work and labor but it was sure worth it!
Had a great day helping the community in the Lower 9th. We helped seal cracks in a house so a future paint could be done. We also helped complete an Aquaculture. What a fascinating thing! David, who built the aquaculture is a Genius. Once we were done we went to CBD and met with two […]
So a big part of the work we are doing here is dividing up parts of the Woodlands Trail, and counting/measuring the amount of invasive species (Chinese Privet, Tallow, and Chinaberry) that is visible throughout the forest. By breaking up into teams and dividing the forest up into transects and recording what we see. What makes […]
Yesterday we started our day in Buros, Louisiana building a community garden at Carol’s house. This part of Louisiana was deeply affected by Hurricane Katrina and hasn’t quite recovered, so it felt good to help out and built that garden. After that we drove down toward Venice, Louisiana and the Southern most point of the […]
Yesterday we traveled farther south to aid a man named Carol with creating a vegetable garden. After Katrina he was an active community servant helping others with rebuilding. During his service he saved his son from falling in a hole by pushing him away and falling in the hole himself. By doing this he broke […]
We worked on making a community garden which was most if our day. Afterwards we drove to the southernmost point of Louisiana, where the Gulf of Mexico is close to meeting with the Mississippi. We noticed the wetland loss where freshwater is turning brackish as salt water moves in from the gulf. As a result […]
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