America's Wetland Foundation

Isle de Jean Charles Video

By: Louisianahometown

Hundreds of volunteers helped launch floating islands in a demonstration project of a new technology to protect the coast south of Houma, Louisiana, that is considered to be ground zero for coastal land loss in America.

Wetlands Planting Project Set in Houma

By: Eileen Fleming, WWNO

Volunteers are getting mats of marsh plants ready to place along wetlands and in the open water at Isle de Jean Charles south of Houma. The mats look like full-size mattresses, but made from recycled plastic.

Recycled plastic water bottles getting new use in coastal restoration project

Over the next several days, 300 volunteers will work to assemble and plant floating islands, which are made out of recycled plastic and can hold marsh grasses.

Experimental restoration project aims to protect dwindling marshes

By: Daily Comet

Island Road is the only small strip of land remaining in the miles of open water that now separate Isle de Jean Charles from the mainland. But locals remember when it was different.

Floating an idea: recycled material gives marsh a helping hand

By: Fox 8 Live

Near this tiny island community in Southern Terrebonne Parish, a couple hundred volunteers worked to restore a sliver of marsh.

Recycled plastic water bottles getting new use in coastal restoration project

By: Maya Rodriguez, Eyewitness News

At 28 years old, Chris Chaisson has seen the landscape around his home change right before his eyes. "This was all land," he said, as he recalled his childhood and looked out at the now open water. Chaisson is a member of the United Houma Nation, Native Americans who live on slivers of land in Lower Terrebonne Parish, such as Isle de Jean Charles. Coastal erosion is a constant battle.

Garland talks to Val Marmillion and Sidney Coffee from America's Wetland Foundation

Garland talks to Val Marmillion and Sidney Coffee from America's Wetland Foundation about a growing consensus in the American public that Louisiana wetlands are vital to the US economy. They are joined later by Senator Landrieu.

Coastal Restoration Areas Top Agenda

By: Mike Nixon , Tri-Parish Times

As part of an ongoing series of public meetings to go beyond talk and institute action toward coastal restoration, the America's Wetland Foundation and its America's Energy Coast initiative will conduct an information and planning forum at the Courtyard by Marriott in Houma on Sept. 28 from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m.

Floating Islands to be installed at Isle de Jean Charles near Houma, LA

By: America's WETLAND

On September 22, 23 and 24, 2011 - the America’s WETLAND Foundation, Coastal Conservation Association, Terrebonne Parish Coastal Management Office, Entergy, Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, Shell and some 200 volunteers from the corporate sponsors, local schools, youth groups and the Isle de Jean Charles community will be employing for the first time, “floating island” restoration in an attempt to build new land and protect remaining lands in the Isle de Jean Charles area near Houma.

Urgent Action on RESTORE Act needed Today!

By: America's WETLAND

Earlier this year bipartisan coalition of nine Gulf Coast senators led by Sens. Mary Landrieu, D-La., and Richard Shelby, R-Ala., introduced the RESTORE the Gulf Coast Act of 2011 (S. 1400). This much-needed legislation would ensure that at least 80% of BP penalties paid under the Clean Water Act would be dedicated to Gulf States to invest in the long-term health of the coastal ecosystem and its economies.

It’s America’s WETLAND Day at the Dome!

By: America's WETLAND

Come cheer the New Orleans Saints and support the America’s WETLAND Foundation when the Saints take on the Chicago Bears at noon on Sunday, September 18th in the New Orleans Superdome.

Floating Island going in at Isle de Jean Charles

By: Mike Nixon , Tri-Parish Times

One of the hardest hit communities in Terrebonne Parish in terms of loss of coastal marshland over the decades has been Isle de Jean Charles. Now the community of approximately 230 people on a small finger of land between Bayou Terrebonne and Bayou Pointe-aux-Chenes will be the first in the nation to have an innovative effort implemented next week to address coastal restoration.

The Rodney Dangerfield of Natural Spaces: Coastal Louisiana

By: Seyi Fayanju , Environmental Defense Fund

Last weekend in The New York Times, veteran columnist Nick Kristof wrote about America’s invaluable natural parks and the challenges confronting these wild, open spaces during this time of economic uncertainty and social change. Kristof was inspired by a recent backpacking trip with his wife and children along high rugged trails in his home state of Oregon, but reading his piece made me think of a national treasure at a far lower elevation, one that often gets overlooked by Americans who wrongly assume that our natural inheritance is limited to majestic purple mountains and amber fields of grain.

Most Americans Say Saving La. Coast is Feds' Responsibility

By: Houmatoday

A new national poll shows that 91 percent of Americans believe the Gulf Coast is vital to the nation’s economy and domestic energy security and that more money should be invested in coastal restoration. Ninety percent of those polled also said protecting parts of the Gulf Coast that supply energy to the country should be the responsibility of the federal government.

Volunteer Opportunity - Wetland Planting – Isle de Jean Charles, Terrebonne Parish

The America’s WETLAND Conservation Corps, in partnership with CCA's Building Conservation Habitat Program, Shell Oil Company, Terrebonne Parish Government, Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, America's WETLAND Foundation and Entergy join together to rebuild the coastline in Terrebonne Parish with a "Floating Islands" Restoration Project.