List of 319 Projects
Water Quality Conference for Forest Landowners (1996)	Map it
Basin: Statewide More than 50 percent of the land within the State of Louisiana is utilized for growing trees, primarily pines. Forestry is the largest plant and animal commodity in the state, resulting in an annual $4 billion industry. Whereas most of the forested watersheds indicate relatively good water quality, the NPS Assessment Report and the Water Quality Inventory 305(b) Report has identified forestry as one of the nonpoint source categories that needs to be included in the NPS Management Program.
Impact of Poultry Litter on Pasture Land (1996)	Map it
Basin: Ouachita Many of the water bodies within the western portions of the Ouachita River Basin or the eastern portions of the Red River Basin are either partially meeting their designated uses or are threatened by nonpoint source pollution. Pastureland runoff and poultry operations have been identified as the sources of these types of pollutants (i.e. sediment, nutrients and organic matter).
Cabin Teele Sub Watershed Project (1997)	Map it
Basin: Ouachita The overall objective of this project was to facilitate implementation of the Cabin-Teele Conservation Plan. Protection strategies were promoted for high priority conservation sites throughout the watershed. In cooperation with government agencies and other non-government organizations, the contractor worked with landowners of high priority sites to 1) implement agricultural BMPs, 2) conduct reforestation efforts, and 3) restore stream riparian areas. A map of high priority tracts in the Cabin-Teele watershed was developed. Land use practices were documented for the Cabin-Teele watershed. The contractor facilitated implementation of the conservation plan(s) through public outreach efforts.
Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Forestry Best Management Practices for Water Quality Improvement in the Ouachita Basin (2001)	Map it
Basin: Ouachita
Forestry BMP Website(2000)	Map it
Basin: Statewide The Louisiana Forestry Best Management Practices Education Project is designed to establish and maintain an online repository for interested parties. These interested parties include: loggers, foresters, forest industry leaders, non-industrial private forest landowners, educators, interested stakeholders and the general public.
Tensas River NPS Demonstration Project (1997)	Map it
Basin: Ouachita The Tensas River Watershed was targeted for a NPS Demonstration and Educational Program that focused on implementation of erosion control structures and conservation practices to reduce the number of silt bars along the main stem of the river. The 1996 Water Quality Inventory 305(b) Report indicated that the Tensas River was not meeting its designated uses because of sediments, nutrients, organic enrichment, pathogens, turbidity and low dissolved oxygen. The suspected causes of these water quality problems included irrigated crop production and alarge percentage of the watershed is utilized for row crop agriculture.
Poultry Litter in Forested Areas(1997)	Map it
Basin: Red Forestry and poultry are some of the largest plant and animal industries within the State of Louisiana. For year 2001, these two industries had combined gross farm income of $1,398,880,939.00. The 1996 Water Quality Inventory Report listed harvesting/reforestation as contributing to nonpoint source pollution and causing water quality impairment in some watersheds north of Alexandria, Louisiana.
Forestry Education and Technical Assistance (1994)	Map it
Basin: Ouachita The Tensas River Watershed was targeted as a priority water body to implement a comprehensive watershed protection program in the early 1990’s. The Tensas River had been included in the State’s 305(b) Report as impaired due to sediment, nutrients and pesticides entering the river from agricultural production. There was a concentrated effort by federal, state and local agencies to work with the landowners on a comprehensive watershed protection plan for the watershed. One of the primary goals of the plan was to restore bottomland hardwood forests to the marginal croplands through the Wetland Reserve Program (WRP).
Forest Infrastructure and Restoration (1996)	Map it
Basin: Pontchartrain Urban storm water runoff continues to be a complex problem for which many cities are trying to find cost-effective and practical solutions. Within East Baton Rouge Parish, a part of the solution may be retaining and/or restoring urban forests and wetlands. As the urban community continues to expand, a large percentage of the remaining natural tree coverage has been replaced by housing, industrial and commercial land use areas.
Development of Site Conservation Plan and Addressing NPS Pollution on the Pearl River Louisiana (2001)	Map it
Basin: Pearl
Louisiana Forestry Best Management Practices Education Project (2004)	Map it
Basin: Statewide The goal of the project was to provide Louisiana natural resource management stakeholders with an updated educational medium with which they could learn and access reference to Louisiana’s established recommended forestry best management practices (BMPs). The project objectives were to 1) develop a website that encompassed the content contained in the publication “Recommended Forestry Best Management Practices for Louisiana”, 2) create field video of BMP implementation and practices to be included in the website, 3) develop a DVD of the BMP video that would serve as a standalone product as well as a companion to the website, and 4) hold workshops to advertise and explain the website and DVD to stakeholders around the state.
Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Forestry Best Management Practices for Water Quality Improvement in the Ouachita Basin (2001)	Map it
Basin: Ouachita
Monitoring the Effectiveness of Forestry BMP Implementation in the Flat Creek Watershed (2002)	Map it
Basin: Ouachita The purpose of this project is to quantify the impacts of sediment deposition, nutrient runoff and organic materials to water quality charactoristics in the Flat Creek watershed areas impacted by forestry activities. This project has ended and Phase II of this project, which was funded under the FY2004 Grant is on going.