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The Cajun Prairie Restoration Project in Eunice, Louisiana is a 30 year old project carried out by scientists and volunteers. This book uses photographs to tell the story of this project and to celebrate the volunteers who made the project possible. The Cajun Prairie Habitat Preservation Society maintains the site, educates interested groups and provides tours of the site. The book is in essence the scrapbook of the author--an evolutionary ecologist who played a role in the project origination. This book also celebrates the City of Eunice and its university, Louisiana State University Eunice.
Introduces the southwestern Louisiana prairie ecosystem and provides an account of the activities on the Cajun Prairie Restoration Site in Eunice, Louisiana, since its origin in the winter of 1988 through the sixth year (1994) of restoration.
Beginning as a real estate venture on the isolated prairie of southwestern Louisiana in 1894, Eunice is now a progressive small city due to its traditions of volunteerism, community spirit, and resourcefulness. In the late 1980s, the city enjoyed a renaissance when a far-sighted mayor capitalized on the dominant Cajun culture to pull Eunice out of the economic crevasse of the decade's "oil bust." It emerged as a picturesque community with an emphasis on its rich history and its newly recognized heritage tourism. The city's unique Frenchness lures tourists and locals to the live Cajun music shows at the Liberty Center and to experience the joie de vivre at a rural Mardi Gras. The historic images found in Images of America: Eunice feature the day-to-day activities of Eunice's people through good times and lean days from 1894 to the late 1980s.
This book contains a set of papers which explore the subject matter of human and planetary health at various angles The year 2015 was a special year in the field of human and planetary health. In that year, the report, produced by the Rockefeller Foundation and the journal The Lancet, called “Safeguarding human health in the Anthropocene epoch: report of The Rockefeller Foundation-Lancet Commission on planetary health” was launched. Also in 2015, the World Health Organization and the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity published the report “Connecting global priorities: biodiversity and human health: a state of knowledge review” with over 100 contributors, meant to guide future joint actions. Both documents comprehensively address the need for a better understanding of the connections between human health and ecosystems and the risks associated with damages to the integrity of the planet. The period in which humanity finds itself right now, the Anthropocene, is a risk one since mankind is putting the planet under considerable pressure. These elements have led to the emergence of a new field of research, namely planetary health. Planetary health seeks to address a very concrete and urgent contemporary problem, namely the need to understand, quantify, and act in order to reverse the effects of human population growth and the acceleration of socioeconomic activities on the environment and, inter alia, the disturbances in the Earth's natural ecosystems and how these, in turn, impact human health and well-being. Anthropic disturbances in natural ecosystems are characterized by changes in climate, land use, changes in the nitrogen and phosphorus cycle, chemical pollution of soil, water and air, reduction in the availability of drinking water, loss of biodiversity, destruction of the ozone layer, and ocean acidification, among others. In all these areas, there is a perceived need to document and promote examples of initiatives and good practice, which may change current trends. This book addresses this need. It documents experiences, case studies, and projects which explore the connections between human and planetary health and illustrates examples which show the consequences of ecosystemic disturbances to the health and well-being of humanity, with the emergence of new diseases, worsening of infectious diseases and increase in chronic non-communicable diseases related to the deterioration of the current food system, hyper-urbanization, microbial resistance, climate-led migration and zoonoses, among others. Planetary health is a new effort to deal with the question of sustainability and human life on the planet under an increasingly integrative, transdisciplinary, and global perspective, since the problems of this planetary crisis cross geopolitical borders and academic boundaries and affect humanity as a whole. This book provides a contribution to this emerging field. Thanks to its design and the contributions by experts from various areas, it provides a welcome contribution to the literature on planetary health, and it inspires further works in this field.
"The Cajun Prairie, a 2.5 million acre wilderness in 1600, was occupied by Native Americans and the native prairie plants and animals. By 1800, the tallgrass prairie in September obscured the view across the landscape making it extremely easy to get lost, and by December the mud was so deep that a wagon was quickly buried to the axle, but winter fires brought forth the most luxuriant growth of grasses and wildflowers from early spring to late summer. 'The most beautiful region in Louisiana,' 'the garden of Louisiana' and 'one of the most agreeable views in nature' were descriptions of early travelers like C.C. Robin, William Darby and Col. Samuel Lockett. Today, this prairie is listed as 'critically imperiled (S1)' by the Louisiana Natural Heritage Program. Literally less than 100 acres remain in narrow strips and small pieces dotting the landscape. The natural history of this prairie is described for the first time as result of the work of a group of devoted prairie ecologists and enthusiasts. This is their story and a view of the future as restoration ecologists attempt to recreate the Cajun Prairie as a sustainable landscape, a remarkable biodiversity garden and a tribute to our natural heritage"--Cover, p. 4.
Louisiana's famous Cajun Country is a place where today's travelers can still experience the rich heritage and traditions that began in the eighteenth century. From foodways and folktales to music and festivals, Acadiana offers something you can't get anywhere else. Journey through this historic and unique part of the state with travel writer and historian Cher Coen as your guide Experience Cajun Country through its exceptional cuisine, area events, and historic attractions.