Trebor, who works for longtime REF partner Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, and his dog Roseau, who has been our planting companion on many outings, came to the rescue last month to help boaters who were stuck on a mud flat. Read the heartwarming story...
It is a great honor to announce that Restore the Earth Foundation’s (REF) Co-Founders P.J. and Marv Marshall have been chosen to receive the South Louisiana Wetlands Discovery Center’s 2017 John W. Woodard Award. This award recognizes those who have dedicated service...
By Kevinisha Walker, The Houma Courier Until the mid-20th century, bald cypress filled 4,000 acres of Pointe-aux-Chenes’ forested wetlands, but erosion, sinking land and Gulf of Mexico storms have since destroyed most of them. In 2002, an oil and gas company tried to...
Oct. 28, 2016 – “You have our total support,” Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Secretary Charlie Melancon pledged Thursday to a national organization attempting to restore some 1 million acres of land along the Lower Mississippi River Basin, or as...
Pointe-aux-Chenes, Louisiana—October 2016—On October 27, Restore the Earth Foundation will break ground on a bold new landscape-scale restoration project to restore one million acres of degraded land in the lower part of the Mississippi River Basin— a vast...
