Becca Osborne helps rebuild around New Orleans
Becca Osborne (right) pictured with a SUNY classmate
Becca Osborne of Peru was one of ten SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry students accompanied by one faculty member who traveled from Syracuse to spend a week of the 2009-2010 winter break in New Orleans. Yes, they did do a little sightseeing but most of the week was devoted to helping the victims of Hurricane Katrina put their lives and neighborhoods back together.
Becca made the trip with Operation Southern Comfort, a Central New York organization that has taken over 25 trips to Louisiana and Mississippi helping Katrina victims to rebuild homes, a museum, tutor school children, and recently, plant trees. www.OperationSouthernComfort.org
During the winter break trip, ESF students helped plant one-thousand Cyprus trees along the soil bank in Bayous Bienvenue and Dupre, along the Violet Canal to restore wind and water barriers against future storms. The trees are started in pots and when they reach a height of about 6 feet they are planted in the bayous. Professor Richard Goyer of Louisiana State University is overseeing the project.
Posted: February 1st, 2010 under General News.