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Louisiana
Sea Grant Makes a Splash at Baton Rouge Earth Day 2005
April
18, 2005
A contingent from the
Louisiana Sea Grant Program helped make Baton Rouge Earth Day
2005, one of the nation’s largest environmental festivals,
a success Sunday, April 17.
Officials estimated
more than 40,000 people attended the festival, with many of the
crowd visiting the wetlands exhibits. Louisiana Sea Grant exhibits
included seed plantings for the Coastal Roots program, fish printing
(known as Gyotaku in Japanese) and an interactive display on invasive
species.
“Eight
hundred seeds were planted for Coastal Roots and more than 1,200
fish prints were created,” said Dianne Lindstedt, Louisiana
Sea Grant marine education coordinator. “Those figures represent
only a fraction of the number of people who came through our exhibit
tent. It was a great day for raising environmental awareness.”
|
Paula
Ouder (left, in white) helps visitors to the fish printing
exhibit make prints. |
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