America's Wetland Foundation

See this. Breathe deeply. Louisiana irises beckon.

By: Eliot Kamenitz, Times-Picayune

Ralph Waldo Emerson said, "The earth laughs in flowers," and if that is the case, then the mild New Orleans winter has brought a chuckle. Some early bloomers have woken up in the New Orleans Museum of Art's Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden in City Park.

Youth summit offers teens decision-making data

By: Mike Nixon, Tri-Parish Times

Organizers of Saturday’s Wetlands Youth Summit hope the 83 participants, 47 of whom were high school students from Terrebonne, Lafourche and St. Mary parishes, took away more than a tote bag filled with an Environmental Protection Agency-labeled Frisbee, two promotional pencils and a pen, a note pad, a word search game, a crossword puzzle, a screen printed koozie, a South Louisiana Wetlands Discovery Center bookmark, lanyards made from recycled plastic and a folder filled with information about the day-long event and participating agencies.

Rising sea levels could affect evacuation routes during future hurricanes

By: Maya Rodriguez, WWLTV

When a hurricane approaches, the main arteries that link Louisiana's coastal communities to their inland counterparts are a critical evacuation route for tens of thousands of people.

Report: Sea-level rise must be considered in projects

By: Nikki Buskey, Houma Today

Louisiana's coast could face up to 3 feet of sea-level rise by 2100, and the state is recommending that future levee and coastal-restoration projects take rising global waters into account.

Louisiana officials establish formula for anticipating sea-level rise

By: Mark Schleifstein, Times-Picayune

State coastal restoration and levee projects should be designed to anticipate an average 3.3 feet increase in sea level over the next 100 years, according to a new Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority report. But the project designs must also consider whether changing circumstances, including a reduction in the speed in which coastal land is sinking or a possible catastrophic increase in atmospheric temperatures, could produce sea levels rises of only 1.6 feet or as high as 4.9 feet by 2112.

Coastal restoration, protection should concern all in Southwest Louisiana

By: American Press

If there’s one clear message from area residents to the agency charged with preserving and restoring Southwest Louisiana’s coast and wetlands, it’s that we’re all in this together.

Our Views: Get behind Louisiana coastal plan

By: The Advocate

The sheer size of Louisiana’s coastal crisis has, in a perverse way, limited this state’s response to one of its most pressing challenges. The problem of coastal erosion is so big, with Louisiana losing at least 16 square miles of land each year, that politicians, policymakers and the general public couldn’t seem to get their hands around the task they faced — and how to tackle it.

Paradise withering

By: Kerry Luft, Chicago Tribune

First came the hurricane, which poured 24 feet of water into his fishing and hunting lodge and knocked out utilities for 8 1/2 months.

It's time to bring in the cavalry for rescue of the wetlands

By: Bob Marshall, Times-Picayune

Every hunting season, I'm reminded why the pioneers of America's environmental movement -- legends like Theodore Roosevelt, Aldo Leopold and Gifford Pinchot -- were hunters and anglers: People whom hunt and fish are among the few humans who are active participants rather than spectators in their ecosystem -- today more than ever.

10th-grader wins arts prize: W. Feliciana High to receive $6,000 from wetlands group

By: Amy Wold, The Advocate

For her depiction of a white pelican through the use of natural and recycled material, Brittany Stagg, 15, won her school $6,000 for supplies through America’s Wetland Foundation.

EDS students bring in money with artwork

By: Holly Carter, KPLCtv

A local school got quite the surprise today thanks to a handful of students doing their part. Tens of students from Episcopal Day School, EDS, submitted their artwork, photography or essay into the America's Wetland Foundation contest called "Keep Your Eye on the Prize."

Watch the EDS art contest winners announcement here!

By: KPLCtv

Keep spotlight on Louisiana coastline

By: Daily World

No one, not even the most sunny-side-up Pollyanna, could look back on the BP oil spill and think it was, on balance, a good thing.

America's Wetland Foundation Names Art Award Winners

By: Eileen Fleming, WWNO

The America’s Wetland Foundation is awarding $48,000 to Louisiana students for their artistic impressions of the importance of wetlands. The money stays at the schools for continued environmental education.

Happy World Wetlands Day

By: Russell McLendon, Mother Earth Network Blog

Feb. 2 is World Wetlands Day, a holiday that has promoted global appreciation and protection of wetlands for 41 years. It commemorates an international treaty signed in 1971, the Ramsar Convention, that aims to conserve swamps, marshes and bogs around the world, from Albania to Mexico to Zambia.