In conjunction with the City of Alexandria, The Nature Conservancy plans to plant a total of 129 trees across three areas this week. 

This effort, being called “The Alexandria Project,” is part of Louisiana Treesilience Program (LTP), a program within The Nature Conservancy meant to help restore urban tree canopies damaged by hurricanes in 2020 and 2021. 

LTP funds each planting initiative completely. Additionally, LTP oversees all of the contracting and the work itself to make sure that each initiative is a success. 

LTP is working in 22 Louisiana parishes working to repair canopy damage from hurricanes. LTP representatives meet directly with community members to learn about specific needs and desires to restore their communities’ urban tree canopies.

“Doing work in Sulphur, DeRidder, New Orleans, Slidell and Terrebonne,” said Amanda Takacs, who is The Nature Conservancy’s Community Forest Conservation Coordinator for Louisiana. “There are a lot of different communities that are ultimately being impacted by this funding and opportunity to restore urban canopy.”