Louisiana

City Park, New OrleansPhoto credit: TPL Archives

Along the Gulf Coast and throughout the rest of Louisiana, The Trust for Public Land works on community-driven efforts to ensure the sustainability of natural systems and local economies.

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Louisiana projects

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Atchafalaya Basin, Louisiana

Bayou Teche

We helped create the Bayou Teche National Wildlife Refuge in Louisiana, for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and the forest land is important for climate change mitigation and provides habitat for black bear habitat and other species.

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Big Lake restoration, NOLA City Park

The Trust for Public Land and the City Park Improvement Association joined forces to restore and enhance the fifty acre Big Lake area, near the entrance of New Orleans' City Park.

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Bayou Sauvage National Wildlife Refuge, Louisiana

Brazilier Island

TPL helped add part of Brazilier Island in Lake Pontchartrain to Bayou Sauvage National Wildlife Refuge, Louisiana-located 15 minutes northeast of New Orleans' French Quarter.

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Fitness Zone along Big Lake Trail in City Park, New Orleans

City Park Fitness Zone® area

In New Orleans, The Trust for Public Land helped create a Fitness Zone® area in City Park, one of the nation's oldest urban parks.

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Climate Mitigation

In Louisiana, we are working to mitigate the effects of climate change by sequestering carbon through reforestation and restoring wetlands that buffer coasts from storm damage.

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Visitors enjoy a walk along the Big Lake Trail in City Park, New Orleans

Climate-Smart Cities™–New Orleans

Few American cities are more vulnerable to climate change-related flooding, heat, and storms than New Orleans. The Trust for Public Land’s Climate-Smart Cities team is working with public agencies, neighborhoods, funders, and researchers to help New Orleans develop green infrastructure where it’s needed most.

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Louisiana Coastal Protection

Coastal Protection

TPL helps conserve and create coastal refuges along Louisiana's barrier islands, forests and marshland that protect wildlife and buffer cities like New Orleans from hurricane winds and floods, while also protecting resources including the fish, crabs and shellfish that support the region's seafood harvest and local economies.

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Jean Lafitte National Historic Park and Preserve

Fleming Plantation - Jean Lafitte National Historical Park

The Trust for Public Land is working to secure funding towards the phased acquisition of this historic plantation so it can be included into the Jean Lafitte National Historic Park, permanently protecting this large environmentally and historically important property.

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Lafitte Greenway, New Orleans

Lafitte Greenway

In 2010, The Trust for Public Land bought a 17-acre parcel at the gateway to the Greenway, the first step in bringing a decades-old vision of the Greenway to reality. We are continuing to work closely with the city to determine best practices and next steps to ensure that Lafitte Greenway reaches its full potential as a community asset.

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Mickey Markey Park in the Bywater neighborhood of historic ninth ward in New Orleans, LA

Mickey Markey Park

The Trust for Public Land worked in partnership with the New Orleans Recreation Department Commission and the Bywater Neighborhood Association to renovate this neighborhood park.

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Nantachie-Saline Restoration Area, Kisatchie National Forest

Nantachie-Saline Restoration Area

TPL is working to protect the Nantachie-Saline Restoration Area in Louisiana's Kisatchie National Forest, which features wetlands and riparian areas important to wildlife, calcareous prairies, longleaf pine forests.

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Plaquemines Parish, Belle Chase

TPL helped the US Navy and Plaquemines Parish in Belle Chasse, Louisiana create a park that protects the Naval Air Station-Joint Reserve Base operations and the local water supply.

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Tensas River National Wildlife Refuge, Louisiana

Tensas National Wildlife Refuge

In 2003 we began to purchase and restore 11,000-acres of the property as an addition that connects two units of the Tensas River National Wildlife Refuge into one contiguous conservation area. We have reforested over 8,000 acres by planting 3.3 million native trees. When fully-grown these trees will sequester over 2.5 million tonnes of carbon.

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