Now THAT’s an idea!!! There are miles and miles and miles of that stuff, easily harvested, right along roads in the South!
Tennessee could use a little love right now, too. That's a little harder to do. Medical shots and so forth would be needed, but it could be done there, too.
This country was built on “help or get out of the way”. I don't know when we came to the point where we thought we're too good to do the work or too feeble. We always used to saddle up and get the job done. Now, everybody wants to sit and wait for the check in the mail.
Oh, and get those fishing boats out there in the Gulf to round up the hay and straw. If they can’t fish, they can join the round up.