Dear friends of Redwood Creek,
We are pleased to announce this year’s Greater Outdoors Project winner. With more than 17,000 public votes from dedicated members and supporters, Friends of New Orleans City Park has earned the $50,000 grant to help restore City Park’s Couturie Forest, a majority of which was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. The organization will also be featured in a Redwood Creek national advertising campaign later this year.
Redwood Creek and Planet Green would like to thank all of the Greater Outdoors Project finalists including Arizona Trail Association, Conserve Wildlife Foundation of New Jersey, National Forest Foundation, WildEarth Guardians and Friends of New Orleans City Park, for their amazing work to protect and restore the great outdoors for this and future generations to enjoy. We encourage each of these organizations to participate in the Greater Outdoors Project again next year.
Last but certainly not least, thank you to everyone who participated by voting every day. Your devotion and enthusiasm is contagious. We encourage you to continue spreading the word about the great work each of these worthy nonprofits is doing in your local community. We believe Redwood Creek wines enrich outdoor experiences, which are only made possible by organizations that take an active role in preserving our environment.
For details on the Couturie Forest project (photo of project site below), please click here. The project will commence this fall to be completed in December 2010. Redwood Creek will be there every step of the way by providing updates on BlazeTheTrail.com.
Warm Regards,
Your friends at Redwood Creek
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Congratulations New Orleans folks! :)
Thanks to everyone who voted so often for Friends of City Park and the Couturie Forest. It will be great to re-establish this green space within our city, restoring an urban wildlife habitat and giving a lovely bit of nature for all to enjoy. Buggirl
Congratulations!
Thanks to all who voted and supported their outdoor projects...and many, many thanks to Redwood Creek Wines..So thrilled New Orleans City Park will be getting a boost that is so badly needed...I'll be looking for Redwood Creek on the shelves!
Wow! Thanks so much!!!!
You know what? Even though City Park won, I really appreciate the opportunity you gave me to learn about all the other worthy causes, which I actually knew nothing about prior to this contest. I think you should post links on your website to each cause's online donations page (I assume they all have an easy way to donate online?) so we can throw a few bucks at the other projects. I know City Park didn't win just from New Orleans voters, so I'd like to show my thanks to people in other regions by donating to an outdoorsy project closer to them.
Thanks again!!! I'm going to the park today to celebrate. Also, buying a few bottles of wine :)
I'm very happy for City Park.
Thanks!
Great news for New Orleans!
Wah Whoooooooooo !!! Oh my gawd! Redcreek has made me a whoo girl! Thanks so much for giving City Park such a wonderful opportunity.There's always an open invitation to all to come & experience what we've been lovingly voting for all these months but supporting all our lives!Thanks!!!
I'm am so glad that City Park is getting this money!!! Thanks to Redwood Creek and all who voted for our cause!
Even though I was voting for WildEarth Guardians, the New Orleans City Park is also a worthy project and I can't wait to see the restoration. Kudos...
City Park is going to keep it real.
Congrats! This is a great cause and a great promotion!
I was voting for the Arizona Trail and although a bit disappointed that we "lost" I am very happy to see the money go toward New Orleans and their City Park. Congratulations!
Graeme Hunt
Sonoran Desert Mountain Bicyclists (www.sdmb.org)
happily- we have people in charge of New Orleans City Park who care and are qualified in their jobs to redo it ( no politicians- at all!)
The City's leaders are not so well prepared to spend your Federal tax dollars- Sorry America- No infrastructure czar can fix anything with broken politicians
but we can teach more urban planning and hope it works for the next generation!
Much gratitude to the voters and Redwood Creek, for the funding and updates! While working to restore our parent's and sisters' flooded homes we wanted to have lunch in a refreshing greenspace. Everyone's landscaping was dead and brown after weeks of high water. Knowing that some of city park was not flooded, we headed there only to find tremendous wind devastation.
We are SO tickled about this restoration grant and the psychological lift it will provide so many who still need a pleasant green space near their neighborhood.
THANKS SO VERY MUCH REDWOOD CREEK!
We lived near and used City Park on a regular basis. It was heartbreaking to see the park after Hurricane Katrina. Many of the great Oak trees did not survive the flooding and wind. While the Park has experienced a dramatic recovery, it will take generations to be the way it was. We'd like to thank all of the people who took the time to vote for City Park and, of course, Redwood Creek. City Park is a great asset to the City of New Orleans.