NFWF Grant Profile

Conservation Program(s):
Longleaf Stewardship Fund
Project Title: Restoring Longleaf Using Grazing and Prescribed Fire (LA, TX)
Organization:
Louisiana Tech University
Project ID:
1903.21.071376
Description:

Enhance 1,000 acres of longleaf pine forests in southwestern Louisiana and southeastern Texas by integrating cattle grazing with prescribed burning. Project will monitor ecological benefits of prescribed burning with cattle grazing on multiple private forestlands on which it is being conducted, and landowners and natural resource professionals will be trained on these benefits as well as the logistics of cattle grazing in longleaf pine through a multi-media outreach program.

Award Amount:
$224499.55
Location:
Southwestern and central Louisiana, southeastern Texas