Partnership Award Presented for Cameron Creole Terracing Project
Coastal America, a Washington D.C. agency that promotes protection of U.S. coastlines, presented partnership awards to Ducks Unlimited and other agencies for their cooperative work on the Cameron Creole Watershed Marsh Terracing Project in south Louisiana.
The terraces are an innovative system of mounds that slow down wave action that erodes the shoreline. Constructed with bay-bottom soils, each terrace is 1,000 feet long. Spaced 500 feet apart, the terraces zigzag in a duck-wing pattern for 27 miles across the south Louisiana coast.
A tour of the project and an awards ceremony were held at the Cameron Prairie National Wildlife Refuge in Cameron Parish. DU Regional Biologist Chad Courville of Lafayette guided Virginia Tippie of the Coastal America agency in Washington, D.C., and about 20 others on a tour of the marsh terracing project. Later, Courville accepted a partnership award from Coastal America.
Courville coordinated efforts with federal, state, and private entities, including the U.S. Highway Administration, Army Corps of Engineers, USDA - Natural Resources Conservation Service, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Geological Survey, Louisiana Departments of Transportation and Development, Wildlife and Fisheries, Agriculture and Forestry, and Natural Resources, Cameron Parish Police Jury, Miami Corporation, North American Land Company, North American Wetlands Conservation Council, Shell Oil Company, and Sweet Lake and Land Oil Company.
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