Harvest to Restore to air on LPB

(Thibodaux, LA) – In the aftermath of every hurricane that batters South Louisiana; many questions are raised about the future Louisiana’s wetlands, its people and its future. Harvest to Restore, a film premiering on LPB Tuesday, September 23, at 9 p.m., takes an in-depth look at a promising strategy that can restore Louisiana’s coast, protect its people and secure its future, beginning now.

With the massive land loss along Louisiana’s Gulf Coast finally being widely recognized as a nationally-critical environmental disaster, the decades of studying the problem are finally, fitfully, shifting into implementation of large scale restoration.

Harvest to Restore examines in depth the technology that a growing consensus of scientists believe is a workable solution to the Gulf Coastal land loss crisis.

Pipeline sediment delivery – no, it’s not a sexy name – holds the promise of expeditiously recreating the natural system of barrier islands, marshes, and ridges that provide quick, practical long term hurricane protection both to America’s energy hub and

to the port and city of New Orleans and surrounding areas.

The documentary looks at how pipeline sediment delivery works, how it’s being used in other countries around the world, and how it might be implemented in the Louisiana coastal zone.

Award-winning writer/producer/director Michelle Benoit, along with co-producer/husband Glen Pitre, are lifelong residents of the Louisiana coastal zone. Their films have been shown nationwide and around the world and have been translated into more than sixteen languages.

Harvest to Restore is a co-production of the Barataria-Terrebonne National Estuary Program, Louisiana