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Enviro Voter Lobby Day

Join the Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation and Friends in Baton Rouge on Tuesday, May 8th for Enviro Voter Lobby Day!
Learn how our state government works and help support:
- Protecting Cypress
- Global Warming
- Coastal Restoration
- Stopping Illegal Dumping

Coffee and lunch provided. Click here for more details.

* * * Please RSVP to Leslie March at lesliemarch@hotmail.com or (985) 871-6695.***

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New Science & Engineering Team Critiques State’s Master Plan

In 2006 the  Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation formally released our “Multiple Lines of Defense Strategy to Sustain Coastal Louisiana” paper (full paper, summary).  A grant awarded to LPBF by the McKnight Foundation is intended to foster development of the Multiple Lines of Defense Strategy and to promote its application in coastal Louisiana.  An Assessment Team composed of multi-disciplinary, professionals was assembled to address these issues.  The first task of the team was to review the state’s draft master plan to restore the coast considering the Multiple Lines of Defense Strategy.  A document was released recently summarizing the team’s critique of the state’s plan.  A series of Assessment Team meetings were held in March, but unfortunately, we were not able to review the entire plan by the April 2 deadline.  Detailed comments are provided for Planning Units 1, 2 and 3a.  No detailed comments are provided at this time for planning units 3b and 4.  The Assessment Team will continue its deliberations for at least 2007 and other planning documentation will be forthcoming. 

Assessment Team Members
John Lopez, Ph.D. (Chair) Coastal Scientist
Joe Suhayda, Ph.D. Engineer (hydrologic modeler)
Alex McCorquodale, Ph.D. PE Engineer (hydrologic modeler)
Subhash Kulkarni, PE  Engineer
Martin O’Connell, Ph.D. Biologist (fish)
Mark Hester, Ph.D. Biologist (wetland plants)
Natalie Snider, Wetland Ecologist
Paul Keddy, Ph.D. Wetland plant ecologist
Paul Kemp, Ph.D. Oceanographer
Carlton Dufrechou, AICP Planner Engineer
Bryan Rogers, GIS & Documentation support

Click here to see the Multiple Lines of Defense Assessment Team Comments.

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