Area briefs for March 13, 2009

• Published: Mar 13, 2009 - Page: 7B

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Workshops to focus on hazard mitigation
The LSU Sea Grant College Program and the state Department of Natural Resources Coastal Management Division will hold three workshops in March on hazard mitigation based on the “Louisiana Coastal Hazard Mitigation Guidebook”.

The meetings will be held from 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the following locations:

• March 24 at the Municipal Auditorium in Morgan City.
• March 25 at the Terrebonne Parish Library in Houma.
• March 26 at the Vermilion Parish Library in Abbeville.

Questions and comments can be sent via e-mail to Linda Pace at the DNR Office of Coastal Restoration and Management, Coastal Management Division. Her e-mail address is: Linda.pace@la.gov

Christmas tree project needs help
Volunteers are needed for a Christmas tree project in Golden Meadow from 9 a.m. to noon on Saturday.

Organized by the America’s WETLAND Conservation Corps, LSU AgCenter, Barataria Terrebonne National Estuary Program and Le Reflections de Bayou, volunteers will help place recycled Christmas trees into bins to help reduce wave-induced erosion near a Lafourche Parish levee.

One group will load trees into trailers near the boat launch and another group will place the trees in the prepared bins on the levee.

For information and to let organizers know who will be attending, contact Jacob Bourgeois by e-mail at: jdboug@yahoo.com, or by calling (985) 227-1669.

Coastal authority meets Wednesday
The state Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority will meet at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday, at the Department of Natural Resources building in the LaBelle Room, 617 N. Third St.

More information is available by calling (225) 342-3968.