Alabama Newscenter — Students Helping Restore Critical Alabama Shoreline

By Dennis Washington

The restoration and preservation of Lightning Point, one of Alabama’s most iconic and important coastal habitats, is getting a big boost thanks to the efforts of some area high school students and volunteers.

About two dozen students from Bayou La Batre‘s Alma Bryant High School recently joined volunteers from The Nature Conservancy in Alabama (TNCA) and Dauphin Island Sea Lab (DISL) to replant native marsh grasses at Lightning Point. The work was funded thanks in part to a Students to Stewards grant from the Alabama Power Foundation.

“I’m just so relieved and excited to finally be here,” said Pamela Baker, lead teacher of the Coastal Environmental Science program at Alma Bryant High School. “We were supposed to come out last April to replant but then COVID happened. We’re just thrilled to be here.”

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