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Restore the Earth reports 1.2 million cypress trees lost in St. Charles WMA fires; group seeks awareness and protections
Summary
Restore the Earth, the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries partners and contractors told the council they planted 6 million cypress across the Gulf Coast — including 18,800 acres in St. Charles Parish — and that recent fires destroyed about 1.2 million trees on a state wildlife management area.
Restore the Earth and its partners told the St. Charles Parish Council on Monday the nonprofit’s large-scale reforestation led to 6 million native bald cypress plantings along the Gulf Coast in the last two years — including 18,800 acres in St. Charles Parish — and that recent unmanaged fires destroyed roughly 1.2 million of those trees on state-managed land.
“Restore the Earth recently completed a landmark restoration of 28,800 acres...planting over 6,000,000 native bald cypress trees, making it the largest project of its kind on the Gulf Coast,” Taylor Marshall, executive director of Restore the Earth, said in a presentation to the council. She said…
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