LOUISIANA, USA — Faculty and students at a Louisiana university are growing plants that thrive in tough coastal conditions to help restore the coast.
Nicholls State University biology chair Quenton Fontenot tells The Daily Comet that it's a long-term investment in producing seeds for the future.
He says past restoration projects used plants that came from other environments — and even though they were the same species, they didn't survive.
One plant being grown at Nicholls Farm is the sand live oak, which is more salt- and drought-tolerant than the live oaks common across much of the South.
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