looking forward to tomorrow’s boating expedition with captain Richie Blink.
he’s going to show me the wetland restoration work that he’s being doing in Venice and Empire.
i’ve always wanted to visit the Mississippi River Delta – such a beautifully strange and tragic part of America.
Richie has been planting salt-tolerant Bald Cypress saplings in an effort to help reclaim coastal wetlands, restore Louisiana’s eroded coastline and reduce future storm surges at the Venice Port Complex. “We’re finding that the more alligators in the area the lower the mortality rate of the trees,” Blink says, “you can really see how everything is connected.”
