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FILE - In this July 20, 2006, file photo, Lucille Bridges poses next to the original 1964 Norman Rockwell painting, The Problem We All Live With, showing her daughter Ruby, inside the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston. Bridges, a Hurricane Katrina evacuee and Houston resident after the storm, looked for the first time at the Rockwell original capturing her oldest daughter, Ruby, as she was escorted by U.S. marshals into an all-white New Orleans school during integration nearly a half-century earlier. New Orleans mayor announced Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2020, that Lucille Bridges, the mother of civil rights activist Ruby Bridges, had died at the age of 86. (Steve Ueckert/Houston Chronicle via AP, File) ....
Project off Louisiana will double the size of island in wildlife refuge Work has begun off Louisiana on a project to more than double the size of an island in the nation’s second-oldest wildlife refuge. The project will add 400 acres of new habitat for birds and animals on North Breton Island, which U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service spokesman Taylor Pool said currently covers about 290 acres. North Breton Island is at the southern end of the Breton National Wildlife Refuge, created in 1904 by President Theodore Roosevelt on a 60-mile-long sweep of barrier islands. It’s the only refuge he ever visited, according to its website. ....
Project will double the size of island in US wildlife refuge 2 months 3 weeks 5 days ago Monday, December 28 2020 Dec 28, 2020 December 28, 2020 6:12 AM December 28, 2020 in News Source: Associated Press Share: NEW ORLEANS (AP) Work has begun off Louisiana on a project to more than double the size of an island in the nation’s second-oldest wildlife refuge. The project will add 400 acres (162 hectares) of new habitat for birds and animals on North Breton Island, which U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service spokesman Taylor Pool said currently covers about 290 acres (117 hectares). North Breton Island is at the southern end of the Breton National Wildlife Refuge, created in 1904 by President Theodore Roosevelt on a 60-mile-long (96-kilometer-long) sweep of barrier islands. It’s the only refuge he ever visited, according to its website. ....
BP Spill Money to Help Enlarge Louisiana Coast Island, Expand Wildlife Refuge December 28, 2020 Money from the 2010 BP PLC oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is being used to help to expand the size of the U.S. wildlife refuge off Louisiana’s coastline. Work has begun off Louisiana on a project to more than double the size of an island in the nation’s second-oldest wildlife refuge. The project will add 400 acres of new habitat for birds and animals on North Breton Island, which U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service spokesman Taylor Pool said currently covers about 290 acres. North Breton Island is at the southern end of the Breton National Wildlife Refuge, created in 1904 by President Theodore Roosevelt on a 60-mile-long sweep of barrier islands. It’s the only refuge he ever visited, according to its website. ....