New Orleans' local ABC affiliate, WGNO, ran a piece yesterday on the Lower Ninth's efforts to restore Bayou Bienvenue:
"The area of Bayou Bienvenue that stretched 30 miles from New Orleans to Lake Borgne was a complex network of wetlands, mostly cypress trees. Now, only tree stubs stick out of the water. But a local environmental group and Lower Ninth Ward residents are hoping to restore the area to it's original, natural beauty.
What was once plush wetlands filled with cypress trees, Bayou Bienvenue now looks dead. "This was a beautiful, fertile, cypress swamp," says Pam Dashiell. She's lived in the Lower Ninth Ward for almost two decades. After Hurricane Katrina she learned about the bayou. "The degredation of what once protected the people is something that can't be allowed to stand," says Pam.
Now, Pam, residents and environmental groups are working to restore this area with thousands of cypress trees. This is how the area looked in 1952 and then in 1976 – already a marked erosion."
Read all of "Wetland Restoration Project in Lower Ninth Ward".
