New Orleans’ tree coverage rate would be even lower if it didn’t have two unusually large wooded areas: City Park and Bayou Sauvage National Wildlife Refuge, which, at 30,000 acres, is the ...

The New Orleans Reforestation Plan offers a new, ... The city also lost more than 200,000 trees from Hurricane Katrina, dropping its overall tree canopy to just 18.5 percent.

Straight-line winds knocked down a large tree in the lot adjacent to Michael Gilbert's home in the 3200 block of St. Ferdinand Street in New Orleans' Desire neighborhood. "I was at work," Gilbert ...

New Orleans’ tree coverage ranked last among 10 comparable cities in the South, according to a report SOUL produced for the city in 2022. While most of the cities, including Atlanta; ...

A volunteer for Sustaining Our Urban Landscape, or SOUL, scoops dirt while planting a young magnolia tree in New Orleans' 7th Ward in 2021. Joseph Evans III, ...

Camly Tram, right, works with her parents Phuong Tram and Hang Lam to plant a cypress tree on the Lafitte Greenway in New Orleans, Friday, Nov. 4, 2022.

NEW ORLEANS — The City of New Orleans is helping restore wetlands during the annual Christmas Tree recycling program. The program has contributed to the restoration of the Bayou Sauvage Urban ...

Severe storms hit New Orleans, knocking over a hollow tree that had been marked for removal, damaging a family’s home in the Desire neighborhood. Skip Navigation. Share on Facebook; ...