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...
Our dynamic team at IUCN Congress 2016; Henry Hicksy, Futerra; Susan Fernandes, US Business Council for Sustainable Development; Ed Pinero, The Pinero Group; PJ Marshall, Restore the Earth; Marv Marshall, Restore the Earth; Carol Cone, Carol Cone on Purpose; Taylor...
Edwin Piñero; President, The Piñero Group August 8, 2016 Even though we speak often of the value of the Mississippi Delta area and the Gulf Coast in general, many still do not realize how important that area really is. More significantly, many do not...