Louisiana Wetlands Restoration Project Offers Corporate Investors a Social Return
by taylor | Aug 4, 2016 | News, Uncategorized
Travel in Pointe aux Chenes, a 35,000-acre swampy marshland southwest of New Orleans, is difficult. The 680 members of the Pointe-au-Chien Tribe who call it home historically used canoes carved from native bald cypress trees – a species often compared in size and...Tags>
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