Louisiana Field School Wetland Photo Journal

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Livable Futures field school graduate student research fellow Molly Rideout, shares experiences from a wetland trip during the 2019 Louisiana Field School.

The whole field school heads out to a wetlands island to plant 500 bullrush and 500 sawgrass plugs.

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Planting meant having to walk through deep muck and sometimes pulling yourself through it like an alligator (not pictured: a few baby alligators spotted!)

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Recent graduate Natalie Dalea in the muck.

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In the end, the newly planted grasses spanned a full mile.

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