Gulf Restoration Network Archives

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: Collection 19

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

The collection consists mainly of correspondence, grants and proposals, and sign-ons and comments. It also contains considerable materials related to the Dead Zone, fisheries and Corps of Engineers projects.

Dates

Created: 1995-2001
Other: Date acquired: 05/05/2002

Creator

Gulf Restoration Network (Organization)

Conditions Governing Access

The collection is open for research use. No known restrictions.

Conditions Governing Use

Physical rights are retained by the J. Edgar & Louise S. Monroe Library, Loyola University New Orleans. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws.

Biographical or Historical Information

The Gulf Restoration Network (GRN) is a New Orleans-based coalition of environmental groups and individuals that seeks to restore the Gulf of Mexico to an ecologically and biologically sustainable condition. The GRN emerged from the December1994 meeting of the Gulf of Mexico Working Group and held its first strategy meeting in March 1995. Initially, the GRN was housed and funded by the Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund. From 1997 to 1999 it was a project of the Tides Center. In 1999 it became a tax-exempt, nonprofit organization and has since received funding from several foundations, including the McKtllght Foundation, Wray Trust, Moriah Fund and Pew Charitable Trusts. The GRN's member organizations develop strategies that are implemented by the GRN's staff and its Steering Committee. It has focused on three areas of work: fostering sustainable management offisheries; stopping polluted run-off that results in the Gulfs Dead Zone; and opposing Corps of Engineers policies that destroy wetlands. It reports on its work in the quarterly newspaper GRN NEWS, which includes the insert Fish Tales.

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