For the second year in a row, the Louisiana Iris Conservation Initiative (LICI) and the T.E.C.H.E Project are partnering on a project in New Iberia City Park to plant Louisiana
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Nearly 60 years ago, a historic Black community founded as a home for newly freed slaves was demolished to expand a national park commemorating the Battle of New Orleans and Civil War casualties. Now park rangers and iris enthusiasts believe they may have found a botanical reminder Louisiana irises and African lilies that the…