New Orleans Landbridge Coastal Restoration Workshops for Community Leaders
Tuesday, March 23 2021
MUST REGISTER HERE: RSVP by March 12: Choose one of the dates and times listed above and contact Dinah Maygarden at dmaygard@uno.edu
New Orleans Landbridge
Coastal Restoration Workshops
for Community Leaders
Join staff from Restore the Mississippi River Delta and the University of New Orleans Pontchartrain Institute for Environmental Sciences for a Coastal Restoration field workshop to the New Orleans Landbridge. Travel by boat to visit a critical restoration area. Learn about the importance of the landbridge, plans for restoration, and ways to support the effort.
Dates of Workshops:
March 19th, 23rd, and 30th
Each day we will offer two three-hour time slots – 9 am – 12 pm and 12 pm – 3 pm.
Workshops are free. Registration is limited.
For each time slot, we will meet at UNO’s Shea Penland Coastal Education and Research Facility and travel to the Island Marina to board UNO boats. All activities will follow COVID-19 safety guidelines, including limited group size, mandatory mask wearing and careful sanitizing.
RSVP by March 12: Choose one of the dates and times listed above and contact Dinah Maygarden at dmaygard@uno.edu
Background:
The New Orleans Landbridge is identified by CPRA and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers as a critical landscape feature that serves as a crucial line of defense from storm surge for nearly 1.5 million people in an eight-parish area, including New Orleans. The landbridge is on track to largely disappear in the next 50 years without action. Land loss is attributed to multiple factors, including subsidence, sea level rise, and shoreline erosion, with more than 5,500 acres lost in the last century and with a projected loss of an additional 3,550 acres by 2050 (USGS).
The City of New Orleans and the Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority, with robust support from state and local leaders, NGOs, and community groups, have begun preliminary design work on a large-scale restoration project on the landbridge. The proposed project would create 1500 acres of marsh habitat and over 4 miles of living shoreline protection along Lake Borgne. Construction funding for this approximately $100million project is not yet secured.
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Amanda R. Moore
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National Wildlife Federation
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Contact the event organizers: Volunteer & Continuing Education Committee