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A $16 million home renovation gives new life to Louisiana’s Rabbit Island Oil spill settlement money funds island restoration A $16 million home renovation gives new life to Louisiana’s Rabbit Island By John Snell | February 17, 2021 at 9:50 PM CST - Updated February 17 at 10:11 PM NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - Heavy equipment works to raise the elevation on a speck of real estate that barely rises above Lake Calcasieu south of Lake Charles. Contractors for the Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority are raising Rabbit Island. “It’s significant because it’s...

SAN MARCOS —  There’s a big room tucked on the backside of a government building in San Marcos that’s ready for use when the pandemic restrictions lift. Billiard balls on the new table are racked. The 75-inch TVs are in. A drum kit sits in a sound-proof booth. All that’s missing are the select group of a few dozen at-risk teens who’ve earned the privilege to use the new facility, where they can engage in a little healthy competition at pool or foosball, save virtual worlds on a Playstation 5 or record music on a high-end set. The 7,000-square-foot site was four years and $600,000...

Efforts are underway in Cameron Parish to restore Rabbit Island to assist population growth for the Brown Pelican in southwest Louisiana. Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority Project Manager Todd Baker says they are building up the island by using sediment from the Calcasieu Ship Channel. “We are targeting elevations for these birds so that they can have nests, lay eggs that won’t go underwater on a routine basis, and thus increase their nesting success each year,” said Baker. Located in Cameron Parish, Baker said Rabbit Island is the only Brown Pelican habitat in Sout...

Thu January 14, 2021 - Southeast Edition KATC-TV A competitively bid contract for the restoration of Rabbit Island was awarded to Weeks Marine, a dredging company with offices in Covington, La. The project is creating approximately 130 jobs. The Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA) announced Jan. 12 that operations had gotten under way to restore Rabbit Island, the only Brown Pelican colony in southwest Louisiana. Located in the southwest portion of Calcasieu Lake in Cameron Parish, Rabbit Island is the first rebuild of a waterbird colony since the successful restor...

The only Brown Pelican colony in Southwestern Louisiana is getting some help thanks to a state project.