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Louisiana Iris Conservation Initiative: 1. Louisiana iris rescue, Des Allemands

Saturday, July 10 2021

A landowner of a property along Hwy 90 has bush-hogged the ditch/wet area each year during the dry season. Because of this, it has never been sprayed with a herbicide by the state highway department. It is the only stretch of highway not sprayed, so the area had become a mini-wetland bog full of native swamp plants, including the Louisiana iris. He has the property for sale and has stopped maintaining the wet area. He believes its only a question of time before the state will begin spraying the spot. He has encouraged us to get the irises out and relocated to a safer location.

Gary Salathe
Volunteer and board of directors member
Louisiana Iris Conservation Initiative
gsalathe@bellsouth.net
985-801-9121 cell

More details can be found here: https://fb.me/e/10vUmloe9

8:00am - 12:30pm
Iris planting volunteer
Volunteer

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