Bren Haase

Help BTNEP celebrate 15 years of bayou cleanin’! Since 2012, volunteers have removed 215 tons of trash from Bayou Lafourche! Join us on April 18 & sign up by April 15. Plus, join a free afterparty in Downtown Thib! Register biw: bit.ly/3Za4aJu bit.ly/4cd4PA2

Say hi to one of BTNEP’s Critter Krewe - Pascal the Purple Martin! These birds are small but mighty! Purple Martins migrate from Brazil, where they winter, and fly 4,806 miles over the Gulf without EVER stopping! Needless to say, Louisiana’s coast is a welcomed sight!

Check out BTNEP Volunteer & Engagement Coordinator Emily Braud and Education & Engagement Coordinator Nicki Boudreaux on HTV’s Local Lafourche! Head to Facebook at mark 7:43 to hear more about our BTNEP's Bayou Cleanup on Saturday, April 18th. 🚣‍♂️ facebook.com/share/v/1AhLnV…

April is National Native Plant Month, and we’re celebrating by spotlighting native plants & pollinators of #OurEstuary! First up: Coral Honeysuckle — an easy-care vine loved by birds, butterflies & hummingbirds (like the Ruby-throated!). Stay tuned for more! 📸 Mike Glaspell

Come hang out! - Farm Friday @ BTNEP Native Plant Nursery, 104 Thoroughbred Park Dr, register @ 985-447-0868 - Help clean Bayous Lafourche, Terrebonne, Grand & Petit Caillou - Free Afterparty in Downtown Thibodaux w/ live music! More info on our social & btnep.org

Bayou Cleanup is just under 3 weeks away! 🤩 To ENSURE an event t-shirt, please register by this Wednesday, April 1st! Registration is open until Wednesday, April 15th, but all registrations after this Friday will not be guaranteed a t-shirt. More info: bit.ly/47JgXHF

Have you been gardening? While it’s tempting to clear out last year’s dried stalks, those dead stems are actually high-end real estate for our local pollinators! ~30% of our native bees are stem-nesters, meaning they rely on hollow/pithy stems to build their homes and lay eggs.

Spring is in the air, & so are the birds! 🐦‍⬛ Recently, @nichollsstate Biology faculty & students joined BTNEP & other volunteers to collect and band sparrows at the Nicholls Farm. Using mist nets, the group walked through fields, clapping to flush birds toward the nets.

We're still thinking about the fun at the Terrebonne Aquatic Clinic, sponsored by @LDWF! Over 3 days, we led hands-on lessons for Terrebonne Parish 5th graders on water quality, estuaries, & saltwater intrusion. We reached ~250 students & teachers! Thanks to LDWF for having us!

The Krauss, Steinmuller, and Roberts labs, collaborators from Tulane & Li-COR installed an eddy covariance sensor in a salt marsh. The instrument will measure real-time CO₂ exchange between marsh and atmosphere to track seasonal patterns in photosynthesis and carbon flux.

Mais, tell ya momma and them! 🗣️BTNEP’s Bayou Cleanup is ONE MONTH away! Grab your maw maws and pee paws, mamas and daddies, aunties and uncles, nannies and parrains, your babies, and your podnas, and join us Saturday, April 18th!

Spring is almost here! 🌼🌸 Wildlife Coordinator Natalie Waters prepped nest boxes at Brownell Memorial Park for returning Prothonotary Warblers, which love wet forests. Since 2016, thousands of chicks have hatched here! Fun: Green Treefrogs use the boxes off-season.

🚨Our BTNEP Native Tree Giveaway is TOMORROW!!!🚨Join us 9 am-noon at the BTNEP Nursery, 104 Thoroughbred Park Dr., Thibodaux. Species include bald cypress, white oak, live oak, mayhaw, river birch, American beautyberry, red maple, red mulberry, honey locust, hackberry, and more!

What’s better than Fridays? Farm Fridays! 😍 Join us tomorrow at 9 am for Farm Friday at our Nursery (104 Thoroughbred Park Dr., Thibodaux) to help with work around the Nursery! Register now: ashleigh@btnep.org Come back Saturday at 9 am for our FREE Native Tree Giveaway! 🌳

Save the dates for our next events: BTNEP's Bayou Cleanup (April 18, 8:30 am) & Q2 Mgmt Conf + Crawfish Boil (May 14, 9:30 am). More info at bit.ly/3OK0iNv. See you there!

Come hang out with us this month! 🌿 Fri, March 6 at 9 am: Farm Friday at the BTNEP Native Plant Nursery (email ashleigh@btnep.org to register). Sat, March 7 at 9 am: FREE native trees at our Nursery — first come, first served! March 28: See us at the @LUMCONscience Open House!

Proud to be a part of this project protecting and restoring the resources of our Estuary and engaging students to make it happen!

Critters of all kinds rely on the land and water of #OurEstuary, including birds and pollinators that need healthy vegetation to land, eat, rest, and do important work. Meet the BTNEP air krewe: Lafitte, Pascal, Betty, Molly, and Polly.

We're thrilled to share our entire BTNEP Critter Krewe, and we hope you love them as much as we do! Thank you to Kassie, owner and artist of That's So Kassie, for her time and talent recreating our tried-and-true Claude and Clawdette, and introducing 10 new friends to the krewe!

Claude & Clawdette aren't teaching our #EstuaryExplorers on their own…they have a whole Critter Krewe to help! Meet: Odette the Otter, Tallulah the Terrapin, Timmy the Tree Frog, Rosie the Redfish, and Gaston the Gator. But that’s not all...stay tuned for one more reveal! 👀