Photos: Cutting Carbon Through the Atchafalaya Forest
Cakey Worthington, of Aurora Sustainable Lands, and Ryan Manuel, of Acadiana Forestry Consulting, conduct surveys and procedures to determine the forest carbon inventory of Aurora’s acreage in the Atchafalaya swamp on Thursday, June 20, 2024 north of Melville, Louisiana.
BR.carbonforest.adv
Updated
Cakey Worthington, of Aurora Sustainable Lands, looks over an area that has seen clearing and other active maintenance on the land managed by Aurora in the Atchafalaya swamp on Thursday, June 20, 2024 north of Melville, Louisiana. The maintenance was done to help grow the trees while helping to build a resilient forest with the goal to store more carbon.
BR.carbonforest.adv
Updated
A bag with food, a glazed donut, and a sent trap hang from a wire in a bear hair snare to help in the study of Louisiana black bears on the land managed by Aurora Sustainable Lands in the Atchafalaya swamp on Thursday, June 20, 2024 north of Melville, Louisiana.
BR.carbonforest.adv
Ryan Manuel, of Acadian Forestry Consulting, stands next to a station that is set up as a bear hair snare to help in the study of Louisiana black bears on the land managed by Aurora Sustainable Lands in the Atchafalaya swamp on Thursday, June 20, 2024 north of Melville, Louisiana.
BR.carbonforest.adv
Ryan Manuel, of Acadian Forestry Consulting, stands next to a station that is set up as a bear hair snare to help in the study of Louisiana black bears on the land managed by Aurora Sustainable Lands in the Atchafalaya swamp on Thursday, June 20, 2024 north of Melville, Louisiana.
BR.carbonforest.adv
Updated
Cakey Worthington, of Aurora Sustainable Lands, stands next to a station that is set up as a bear hair snare to help in the study of Louisiana black bears on the land managed by Aurora in the Atchafalaya swamp on Thursday, June 20, 2024 north of Melville, Louisiana.
BR.carbonforest.adv
Ryan Manuel, of Acadian Forestry Consulting, stands at the edge of a cypress swamp that is part of the 100,000,00 acres owned and managed by Aurora Sustainable Lands in the Atchafalaya swamp on Thursday, June 20, 2024 north of Melville, Louisiana.
BR.carbonforest.adv
Cakey Worthington, of Aurora Sustainable Lands, and Ryan Manuel, of Acadian Forestry Consulting, measure the diameter of a tree at 4.5 feet above the ground in the over story radius to help determine the forest carbon inventory of Aurora’s acreage in the Atchafalaya swamp on Thursday, June 20, 2024 north of Melville, Louisiana.
BR.carbonforest.adv
Cakey Worthington, of Aurora Sustainable Lands, and Ryan Manuel, of Acadian Forestry Consulting, show a map of the lands owned and managed by Aurora in the Atchafalaya swamp that are being managed for carbon capture on Thursday, June 20, 2024 north of Melville, Louisiana.
BR.carbonforest.adv
Cakey Worthington, of Aurora Sustainable Lands, holds the tape measure at 11.7 feet from the mixed point measuring stake as Ryan Manuel, of Acadian Forestry Consulting, to measure the under story radius to help determine the forest carbon inventory of Aurora’s acreage in the Atchafalaya swamp on Thursday, June 20, 2024 north of Melville, Louisiana.
BR.carbonforest.adv
Cakey Worthington, of Aurora Sustainable Lands, and Ryan Manuel, of Acadian Forestry Consulting, measure the diameter of a tree at 4.5 feet above the ground in the over story radius to help determine the forest carbon inventory of Aurora’s acreage in the Atchafalaya swamp on Thursday, June 20, 2024 north of Melville, Louisiana.
BR.carbonforest.adv
Updated
A bag with food, a glazed donut, and a sent trap hang from a wire in a bear hair snare to help in the study of Louisiana black bears on the land managed by Aurora Sustainable Lands in the Atchafalaya swamp on Thursday, June 20, 2024 north of Melville, Louisiana.
BR.carbonforest.adv
Cakey Worthington, of Aurora Sustainable Lands, walks out from the mixed point measuring stake as Ryan Manuel, of Acadian Forestry Consulting, holds the end of a tape measure to measure the over story radius, 32.4 feet, to help determine the forest carbon inventory of Aurora’s acreage in the Atchafalaya swamp on Thursday, June 20, 2024 north of Melville, Louisiana.
BR.carbonforest.adv
Cakey Worthington, of Aurora Sustainable Lands, and Ryan Manuel, of Acadian Forestry Consulting, measure the diameter of a tree at 4.5 feet above the ground in the over story radius to help determine the forest carbon inventory of Aurora’s acreage in the Atchafalaya swamp on Thursday, June 20, 2024 north of Melville, Louisiana.
BR.carbonforest.adv
Updated
Cakey Worthington, of Aurora Sustainable Lands, points out the various project areas on a map of the lands that are being managed to help cut carbon emissions in the Atchafalaya swamp on Thursday, June 20, 2024 north of Melville, Louisiana.
BR.carbonforest.adv
Updated
Cakey Worthington, of Aurora Sustainable Lands, stands in an area of the many acreage that is part of the measuring and documenting the carbon inventory of the property in the Atchafalaya swamp on Thursday, June 20, 2024 north of Melville, Louisiana.
BR.carbonforest.adv
Ryan Manuel, of Acadian Forestry Consulting, and Cakey Worthington, of Aurora Sustainable Lands, tour the edge of a cypress swamp that is part of the 100,000,00 acres owned by Aurora in the Atchafalaya swamp on Thursday, June 20, 2024 north of Melville, Louisiana.
BR.carbonforest.adv
Cakey Worthington, of Aurora Sustainable Lands, walks the tape measure at 11.7 feet from the mixed point measuring stake as Ryan Manuel, of Acadian Forestry Consulting, to measure the under story radius to help determine the forest carbon inventory of Aurora’s acreage in the Atchafalaya swamp on Thursday, June 20, 2024 north of Melville, Louisiana.
BR.carbonforest.adv
Updated
Cypress tree knees emerge from the water in an area of Aurora’s acreage in the Atchafalaya swamp on Thursday, June 20, 2024 north of Melville, Louisiana.
BR.carbonforest.adv
Ryan Manuel, of Acadian Forestry Consulting, and Cakey Worthington, of Aurora Sustainable Lands, tour the edge of a cypress swamp that is part of the 100,000,00 acres owned by Aurora in the Atchafalaya swamp on Thursday, June 20, 2024 north of Melville, Louisiana.
BR.carbonforest.adv
Cakey Worthington stands at the edge of a cypress swamp that is part of the 100,000 acres owned and managed by Aurora Sustainable Lands in the Atchafalaya swamp on Thursday, June 20, 2024 north of Melville, Louisiana.
BR.carbonforest.adv
Cakey Worthington, of Aurora Sustainable Lands, stands next to a metal stake that marks off a fixed measure point that was determined off a random grid to measure the forest carbon inventory for the 100,000 acres of Aurora’s property in the Atchafalaya swamp on Thursday, June 20, 2024 north of Melville, Louisiana.
BR.carbonforest.adv
Updated
Cakey Worthington, of Aurora Sustainable Lands, measures the diameter of a tree at 4.5 feet above the ground in the over story radius to help determine the forest carbon inventory of Aurora’s acreage in the Atchafalaya swamp on Thursday, June 20, 2024 north of Melville, Louisiana.
BR.carbonforest.adv
Updated
Cakey Worthington, of Aurora Sustainable Lands, holds a clinometer that is a tool to help determine the height of a tree for a measurement that is used to help calculate the forest carbon inventory of Aurora’s acreage in the Atchafalaya swamp on Thursday, June 20, 2024 north of Melville, Louisiana.
BR.carbonforest.adv
Ryan Manuel, of Acadian Forestry Consulting, and Cakey Worthington, of Aurora Sustainable Lands, walk to a station that is set up as a bear hair snare to help in the study of Louisiana black bears on the land managed by Aurora in the Atchafalaya swamp on Thursday, June 20, 2024 north of Melville, Louisiana.
BR.carbonforest.adv
Updated
A cypress tree reflects in the water in an area of Aurora’s acreage in the Atchafalaya swamp on Thursday, June 20, 2024 north of Melville, Louisiana.
BR.carbonforest.adv
Updated
Cakey Worthington, of Aurora Sustainable Lands, uses a laser ranger finder to help determine the height of a tree for a measurement that is used to help calculate the forest carbon inventory of Aurora’s acreage in the Atchafalaya swamp on Thursday, June 20, 2024 north of Melville, Louisiana.
BR.carbonforest.adv
Cakey Worthington, of Aurora Sustainable Lands, looks out over an old cypress swamp while along side Ryan Manuel, of Acadiana Forestry Consulting, that is part of the 100,000 acres owned by Aurora in the Atchafalaya swamp on Thursday, June 20, 2024 north of Melville, Louisiana.
BR.carbonforest.adv
Ryan Manuel, of Acadian Forestry Consulting, lays a map of the Aurora Sustainable Lands in the Atchafalaya swamp that are being managed to help cut carbon emissions on Thursday, June 20, 2024 north of Melville, Louisiana.
BR.carbonforest.adv
Cakey Worthington, of Aurora Sustainable Lands, holds the tape measure at 34.2 feet from the mixed point measuring stake as Ryan Manuel, of Acadiana Forestry Consulting, to measure the over story radius to help determine the forest carbon inventory of Aurora’s acreage in the Atchafalaya swamp on Thursday, June 20, 2024 north of Melville, Louisiana.
BR.carbonforest.adv
Updated
Cakey Worthington, of Aurora Sustainable Lands, walks to an area that is part of the measuring and documenting to help cut carbon emissions in the Atchafalaya swamp on Thursday, June 20, 2024 north of Melville, Louisiana.
BR.carbonforest.adv
Updated
Cakey Worthington, of Aurora Sustainable Lands, uses a laser ranger finder to help determine the height of a tree for a measurement that is used to help calculate the forest carbon inventory of Aurora’s acreage in the Atchafalaya swamp on Thursday, June 20, 2024 north of Melville, Louisiana.
BR.carbonforest.adv
Updated
Cakey Worthington, of Aurora Sustainable Lands, points out the painted line on a tree at 4.5 feet above the ground used to measure the diameter of a tree in the over story radius to help determine the forest carbon inventory of Aurora’s acreage in the Atchafalaya swamp on Thursday, June 20, 2024 north of Melville, Louisiana.
BR.carbonforest.adv_0212 MJ.JPG
Updated
An acre of Aurora Sustainable Lands that has seen clearing and other active maintenance, in 2018 before Aurora’s ownership, in the Atchafalaya swamp on Thursday, June 20, 2024 north of Melville, Louisiana. Seen from the air the healthy older trees rise above younger growth. This area was cleared of the dead, decaying and damaged trees to allow toe younger trees the area needed to grow.
BR.carbonforest.adv_0226 MJ.JPG
Updated
An acre of Aurora Sustainable Lands that has seen clearing and other active maintenance, in 2018 before Aurora’s ownership, in the Atchafalaya swamp on Thursday, June 20, 2024 north of Melville, Louisiana. Seen from the air the healthy older trees rise above younger growth. This area was cleared of the dead, decaying and damaged trees to allow younger trees the area needed to grow.
BR.carbonforest.adv_0234 MJ.JPG
Updated
Several acres of Aurora Sustainable Lands that have seen clearing and other active maintenance in the Atchafalaya swamp on Thursday, June 20, 2024 north of Melville, Louisiana. Seen from the air the healthy older trees rise above younger growth creating pockets along the hundreds of acres that was cleared of the dead, decaying and damaged trees to allow younger trees the area needed to grow.