Bayou Lafourche Cleanup 2025 Join us for our 2025 Bayou Lafourche Cleanup on Saturday, April 5th from 8 am to 12 pm, from Donaldsonville to Leeville, in partnership with the Barataria-Terrebonne Estuary Foundation, Bayou Lafourche Fresh Water District, Keep Lafourche Beautiful, and Lafourche Parish Government! Each year, hundreds of volunteers remove [...]
What a year! Let’s take a look back at 2️⃣ 0️⃣ 2️⃣ 4️⃣ :Water Quality- 176 Home Sewage Systems repaired or replaced in Bayou Folse watershed- 74 Home Sewage Systems repaired or replaced in Bayou Lafourche watershedWhite Boot Gala- Sold out all tickets and sponsorships over one month ahead of the event- Record-breaking attendance of [...]
Q4 Management Conference #109 Please join us for our 109th Management Conference on November 14, 2024, at 9:30 am at the LUMCON Blue Works facility on the Houma Maritime Campus, located at 335 Dickson in Houma. The meeting will be followed by lunch. We will hear from: Robby Maxwell, Inland Fisheries Biologist, Louisiana Department [...]
BTNEP Native Plant Giveaway When: Sunday, September 29th, 9 am - 1 pm Where: BTNEP Native Plant Nursery OUR BTNEP NATIVE PLANT GIVEAWAY IS RESCHEDULED! Join us at the BTNEP Native Plant Nursery, located at the Nicholls Farm (104 Thoroughbred Park Drive, Thibodaux), on Sunday, September 29th, to pick up FREE native plants and [...]
2024 International Coastal Cleanup When: September 21, 2024, 10 am - noon Where: Elmer's Island Wildlife Refuge REGISTRATION IS CLOSED! Nicholls State University, the Barataria Terrebonne National Estuary Program (BTNEP) and the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF) are hosting a beach sweep at Elmer’s Island Wildlife Refuge to coincide with the Ocean Conservancy's [...]
White Boot Gala Tuesday, September 24, 2024 | 6 - 9 pm | Spahr's Seafood Restaurant in Des Allemands Our White Boot Gala is SOLD OUT! Thank you to all of our sponsors and supporters for your generosity! Platinum Sponsor: Anonymous DonorGold Sponsors: Joe's Signs & Lowlander CenterSilver Sponsors: CF Industries & Louisiana [...]
Bayou Lafourche Oil Spill Cresent Midstream Oil Spill From EPA: "On July 27, 2024, at 9:49 AM, the EPA was notified by the National Response Center of a spill of an unknown amount of crude oil from a storage tank at a Crescent Midstream facility located in Raceland, Lafourche Parish, Louisiana. According to [...]
Q3 Management Conference #108 Please join us for our 108th Management Conference on Thursday, August 8, 2024, at 9:30 am in the Nicholls State University Ballroom. We will hear from Dr. Erik Johnson with Audubon Delta about the Urban Native Greens program, and from David Illgen, Jefferson Parish Coastal Resources Specialist, who will [...]
Paddle Bayou Lafourche 2024 Join us for this year's 2024 Paddle Bayou Lafourche on Saturday, October 12th, 2024, from 7 am to 3 pm! This event offers an immersive and unique view of Bayou Lafourche and a chance to explore one of the most important waterways of our estuary. We'll be offering a 15-mile [...]
March & April Plantings Join us for a marsh planting! We’ll be out planting on Thursday, March 28th and Thursday, April 4th, and volunteers are needed! Participants will meet at the Port Fourchon Marina by 9 am and will be taken by boat to the planting site. Planting will end by 3 [...]
