The Advocate: BRG’s 4,341 Living Roadways trees prevent 11 million gallons of stormwater runoff yearly

April 23, 2018 – Baton Rouge, LA

Baton Rouge Green released a report stat­ing that the 4,341 trees that the non-prof­it orga­ni­za­tion main­tains along area inter­states and major roads as part of its’ Liv­ing Road­ways pro­gram are doing con­sid­er­able heavy lift­ing in the envi­ron­ment. Accord­ing the report, which is based on the U.S. For­est Service’s i‑Tree mod­el, these 4,300+ trees pre­vent the runoff of 11 mil­lions gal­lons of stormwa­ter and sequester or cause the avoid­ance of over 1.35 mil­lions pounds of car­don diox­ide annu­al­ly, among numer­ous oth­er eco­log­i­cal ben­e­fits. The report also states that the replace­ment val­ue of these 4,341 trees is esti­mat­ed at over $19 million.

Baton Rouge Green has been under­tak­ing an inven­to­ry of pub­lic trees of East Baton Rouge Parish since 2015, with about 20,000 being cat­a­loged to-date on a cloud-based plat­form using the i‑Tree model.

A sto­ry in The Advo­cate by Steve Hardy about the report can be found here.

To read Baton Rouge Green’s 2‑page sum­ma­ry report, click here: Baton Rouge Green 2018 Liv­ing Road­ways Inven­to­ry Report_​4_​10_​18.