SL Future Farmers is a very active club on campus. This page shows some of the activities of the club, especially highlighting the trip to Fourchon to stake out Christmas trees and prevent costal erosion. Future activities will e added as pictures are provided.
Marsh grass is very important to the ecology of brackish estuaries.
It is able to tolerate different salinities. Because it is a monocotyledon, it has a fibrous root system that not only holds soil, but provides habitat for many marine organisms which are important in the food web which eventually extends out into the Gulf of Mexico. Students were given the fundamentals of how to plant marsh grass so that it would bind the soil and help to stem the growing costal erosion. Here begins a legacy of costal improvement that students will hopefully be able to point out to their children in the future.