649 Acres of Wetlands in Belle Chasse Officially Set Aside as "Green Space"

  • From left, Woodlands Conservancy Founding Board Members, Councilman Benny Rousselle and Executive Director Katie Brasted, stand alongside Lee Dupont, Land Chair and Vice President of Woodlands Conservancy. The group is showing a check for $3.25 million that funded the land acquisition – a result of over two decades of work to preserve the 649-acre forested wetland.
    From left, Woodlands Conservancy Founding Board Members, Councilman Benny Rousselle and Executive Director Katie Brasted, stand alongside Lee Dupont, Land Chair and Vice President of Woodlands Conservancy. The group is showing a check for $3.25 million that funded the land acquisition – a result of over two decades of work to preserve the 649-acre forested wetland.
  • (Clockwise) Cathy Norman Pendland, Waltzer Wiygul & Garside LLC, Katie Brasted, Executive Director of Woodlands Conservancy, Lee Dupont, Land Chair and Vice president Woodlands Conservancy, President Kirk Lepine, Councilman Benny Rousselle, Parish Attorney, LV Cooley, Remy Donnelly, Jones Walker complete the signing of the legal documents that transferred property ownership from the Plaquemines Parish Government to Woodlands Conservancy.
    (Clockwise) Cathy Norman Pendland, Waltzer Wiygul & Garside LLC, Katie Brasted, Executive Director of Woodlands Conservancy, Lee Dupont, Land Chair and Vice president Woodlands Conservancy, President Kirk Lepine, Councilman Benny Rousselle, Parish Attorney, LV Cooley, Remy Donnelly, Jones Walker complete the signing of the legal documents that transferred property ownership from the Plaquemines Parish Government to Woodlands Conservancy.
    The Plaquemines Parish Government has officially sold 649.11 acres of “the forested wetland property known as Woodlands Preserve” to the Woodlands Conservancy so the property is “permanently protected” from development and preserved as a green space for foreseeable—perhaps permanent—future. The sale was announced via a Woodlands Conservancy press release published on Janua...

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