2016 Spring Overview: Woodlands Trail Surveys
Channel: Sean Anderson
Date: 2016-04-01

CSU Channel Islands' ESRM 492: Service Learning in New Orleans celebrated our 10th anniversary of traveling to southern Louisiana each March to help the city and rural regions recover from the impacts of Hurricane's Katrina and Rita.  A key part of this long-term effort is our collaboration to assess and restore the bottomland hardwood forests that (used to) surround and (should) help protect the City of New Orleans from the worst storm surge of huge storms and hurricanes.  We work parcels owned and/or managed by Woodlands Conservancy.  Our multi-institution collaboration includes Oregon State University and University of California Los Angeles.  Here, Drs. Sean Anderson (CSUCI), John Lambrinos (OSU), and Tom Huggins (UCLA) give a brief overview of the forest at the conclusion of our 2016 assessment.