CRCLectures Series Premiere, "Our Once and Future Coastal City," David Muth

This is the first lecture in our new series, CRCLectures. The series, which is open to the public, will feature speakers on a broad range of topics of interest to residents of south Louisiana. Lectures will be part happy hour, part presentation and will be held at locations across the coast every other month. Refreshments and light snacks will be served. This event will be an opportunity to interact directly with members of the CRCL staff, Board and Coastal Advisory Council.

Our speaker this month is David Muth, a New Orleans native who has spent his lifetime along the Louisiana coast, studying its geology, ecology, plants, wildlife, history and culture. After graduating with a degree in history from the University of New Orleans, he worked at the National Park Service at Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve and as the Louisiana state director of the National Wildlife Federation. He will be speaking on “Our Once and Future Delta City.”

Successfully living in a delta means living with water. But fundamentally, we are still trying to patch together a system designed when the intention was to drain, fill and develop for agriculture and industry every square inch of coastal Louisiana. David asks: Why aren't we thinking differently? Why not think about how the system works first and what we must do to survive and prosper within it?

The venue for our first lecture is the Helis Foundation John Scott Center in downtown New Orleans. Parking may be available on the street; at the Premium Parking garage P373, 650 O’Keefe Street; and at the surface parking lot, 507 O’Keefe Street.

We hope to hold future lectures in Baton Rouge, Lake Charles, Houma, Lafayette and other places along or near Louisiana's coast.