Vegetative Planting of the Fourchon Terracing Project
— Save the Date —

Restore or Retreat and Ducks Unlimited are happy to announce the upcoming planting of the Port Fourchon Terracing and Living Shoreline Project in southern Lafourche Parish. This project is currently under construction and is visible on the southern side of Highway-1 headed to Grand Isle.

You are invited to ‘Save the Date’ and join us for a volunteer-driven, large-scale vegetative planting event, which has been made possible with support from a private donor.  Our volunteers will be planting approximately 12,000 black mangroves, which will provide vegetative enhancement and assist in critical sediment retention for the newly constructed terraces situated on The Louisiana Land and Exploration Company LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of ConocoPhillips, and Edward Wisner Trust lands.

The first phase of the planting will take place December 4th-8th. This multi-day event will require a large number of volunteers, and more specific details on this event will be coming in the next few weeks. There will be a second phase of the planting in early 2025.

About the Port Fourchon Terracing and Living Shoreline Project:

Once completed, this restoration project will result in over 87,000 linear feet of earthen marsh terraces and over 4,000 linear feet of living shoreline, improving fish and wildlife habitat and protection of surrounding wetlands and critical infrastructure around Port Fourchon.

This project was made possible through the Ducks Unlimited/ConocoPhillips Louisiana partnership with support and collaboration with the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, Edward Wisner Trust, Lafourche Parish Government, Greater Lafourche Port Commission, LA Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA), Chevron, Shell, Louisiana Offshore Oil Port (LOOP), US Fish and Wildlife Service, LA Department of Wildlife and Fisheries – LA Outdoors Forever, James M. Cox Foundation, and other Gulf Coast Initiative sponsors. 

Ducks Unlimited and Restore or Retreat wishes to thank you the public for your continued support of our collective efforts to restore and protect our wetlands for future generations. We couldn’t do it without you, our volunteers.

For more information on how your company or group can bring volunteers to this project please reach out to Polly Glover (Restore or Retreat Project Coordinator) at [email protected] or Joseph Orgeron (Restore or Retreat Executive Director) at [email protected]. 

Wide-View of DU Terracing Project as viewed from the south, looking north with Pointe Fourchon on the far left, terraces in the foreground and highway LA-1 running across the very-middle of the picture.