Next week, the LWI will be holding a Council on Watershed Management meeting in Baton Rouge. The meeting will take place on Thursday, August 8th from 1:30 to 3:00 pm at The Louisiana State Capital Building (900 North 3rd St., Baton Rouge, LA) in House Committee Room 5. I urge anyone with time and interest to attend. Ms Carolyn Lesieur with the LWI has offered the following general agenda (I will upload the formal agenda once it is available):
- Watershed Regional Boundaries
- Steering Committee Composition
- Capacity Building Grant Program
Congressional Support
Today, I received a message from a Field Representative of US Congressman Clay Higgins’, Coby Sammis. As we have previously updated, Scooter Trosclair’s proposed project to promote freshwater flow across LA 82 into Rockefeller Refuge has been under funding consideration with the CWPPRA Program for years now. Congressman Higgins’ office recently submitted a letter supporting that project to the CWPPRA Task Force team. Our efforts are not going unnoticed and I hope you are all encouraged by the support. As updates are made available, we will certainly continue to share them here.