39 posts categorized "Wetlands"

  • 01/07/2014
  • Posted by Kathy Muse

Colleen Butler Computerized Our Design Plan for CSED Lots at Florida & Caffin Avenues

  Computerized Design Plan Resized

We would like to give a shout out to Ecologist Colleen Butler who generously offered to volunteer her services to computerize our landscape design plan for the CSED lots at Florida and Caffin Avenues.   The Florida Avenue lot will be planted with red maple, pecan, and cypress trees. The naturalized "island" blooming with goldenrod that currently exists in the rear of this lot will be enhanced with additional plants to further attract butterflies.  A community fruit orchard will be planted on the Lamanche Street properties.  A perimeter fence of recycled 4x4 posts strung with rope has already been installed.  

Florida Lot CollageAs per our request, Colleen designed a temporary seating structure for the Caffin Avenue lot to stage groups of visitors who often come to learn more about the Bayou Bienvenue Triangle. She included an attached rain catchment system to provide a water source for the site. 

Computerized Plan Rain Catchment Benches Rope Fence Resized

 

Colleen, we so appreciate your time and effort!

  • 12/26/2013
  • Posted by Vincent Fedeli

Winter in Bayou Bienvenue

2013-12-24 15.43.51Photo By: John Taylor

  • 11/08/2013
  • Posted by Kathy Muse

Men of Zion Work Until the Job Is Done

We would like to express our gratitude to the Men of Zion from the American Baptist Churches of the South who continue to come volunteer with us.  This is their ninth year of service to our community! The wonderful gentlemen that John Taylor and I worked with overcame issues with the auger, compacted soil and rock, and time constraints to install a perimeter fence on our lots at Florida and Caffin Avenues constructed of recycled posts salvaged by John.  No matter the obstacle, these good-natured and skilled men will find a way and work until the job is done. FloridaLotsVol Nov2013 Collage

  • 10/29/2013
  • Posted by Vincent Fedeli

Bulrush Grass @ Bayou Bienvenue

Grass PlantingCoalition to Restore Coastal LA, CSED, Common Ground, GRN, Global Green, Groundworks, Sierra Club, and over 20 volunteers coming from as far as CA plant over 1000 plants in the Bayou.
Photo By: John Taylor
  • 09/23/2013
  • Posted by Vincent Fedeli

Pelican R&R @ Bayou Bienvenue

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Photo By: John Taylor
  • 09/11/2013
  • Posted by Kathy Muse

CSED Purchases NORA Properties

The Lower 9th Ward Center for Sustainable Engagement & Development (CSED) has purchased the vacant lots at 2639 Caffin Avenue, 5620 Florida Avenue, 2636 and 2640 Lamanche Street from the New Orleans Redevelopment Authority (NORA). 

Exhibit A OPBA Map CSED RFP Properties Adjacent to Bayou PlatformThe purchase of these properties will support and enhance our ongoing effort with partners to restore the Bayou Bienvenue Triangle into a healthly wetland which can once again serve as a natural surge barrier and a recreational haven for our community.  In 2007, we helped to build the Bayou Bienvenue Platform located directly across Florida Avenue from these lots.  The CSED acts as the caretaker of the platform site, provides tours by a Lower 9th Ward native bayou guide, and engages in community outreach and environmental education.  Use of these properties will further enhance our mission to reconnect Lower 9th Ward residents with the Bayou Bienvenue Triangle & the waters that surround them.

Current CSED plans for these lots include regular maintenance, soil sampling, fencing, tree plantings, and the development of a community orchard. We are honored to be able to give new life and purpose to these former homesites of displaced Lower 9th Ward residents. 

  • 08/14/2013
  • Posted by Vincent Fedeli

Life in Bayou Bienvenue

John Taylor  got all his ducks in a row - his Mexican Black-Bellied Whistling Ducks

2013-07-23 13.13.45

  • 05/27/2013
  • Posted by staff

Why Do Wetlands Matter?

The landscape of New Orleans is part of the wetlands system of southern Louisiana, and the city’s future depends on the health of that regional system.

Why wetlands matter

During storms and hurricanes, the wetlands protect New Orleans from surges in the Gulf of Mexico by absorbing and slowing water. Estimates vary, but scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology suggest that an area of one to four square miles of wetlands between New Orleans and the gulf can reduce a storm surge that threatens the city by one foot (source: Anna Simon, MIT, 20 August 2010). Beyond that, the wetlands support industries that contribute substantially to the city’s economy. READ MORE >>

via www.guttertogulf.com

  • 05/08/2013
  • Posted by Vincent Fedeli

Thoughts from A Special Place

"Be good to the environment and you'll be able to smile like the alligator." - John Taylor

Gator Head

  • 05/01/2013
  • Posted by Vincent Fedeli

Thoughts from A Special Place

"Bayou Bienvenue has been good to us, it's time for us to be good to it." - John Taylor

Johns Bird