Louisiana Community Forests Serving as the statewide Urban & Community Forestry outreach agency for Louisiana and its people

Trees and oth­er for­est resources in devel­oped areas are essen­tial infra­struc­ture that require man­age­ment and maintenance.

LCF was cre­at­ed to cul­ti­vate and pro­mote stew­ard­ship of com­mu­ni­ty forests and green infra­struc­ture through­out Louisiana. Through this pro­gram, Baton Rouge Green coop­er­ates direct­ly with the U.S. For­est Ser­vice and Louisiana Depart­ment of Agri­cul­ture and Forestry to com­mu­ni­cate the ben­e­fits of com­mu­ni­ty forests, as well as pro­vide tech­ni­cal and finan­cial assis­tance for local part­ners in their stew­ard­ship efforts.

What does LCF do?

Louisiana Com­mu­ni­ty Forests (LCF) pro­vides two forms of assis­tance to com­mu­ni­ties across the state:

Technical Assistance

LCF staff can pro­vide expert sup­port to assist with urban forestry man­age­ment capac­i­ty, trou­bleshoot­ing issues with for­est man­age­ment, or guid­ing you through to mak­ing the first steps of your urban forestry pro­gram. Email or call Christo­pher Coop­er, chris@​louisianatrees.​com, 225−381−0037.

LCF pro­vides Com­mu­ni­ty Assis­tance Grants for urban and com­mu­ni­ty forestry sup­port via Coop­er­a­tive Agree­ments for Assis­tance (CAA). LCF direct­ly pays the con­tract­ing ven­dor for the ser­vices or prod­ucts they pro­vide a com­mu­ni­ty that will ben­e­fit or enhance that community’s capac­i­ty to man­age their urban for­est. These CAAs require 1‑to‑1 match funds or in-kind ser­vices from the community.

Check out sev­er­al Com­mu­ni­ty Assis­tance projects that are cur­rent­ly under­way or com­plet­ed below.

In accor­dance with Fed­er­al law and U.S. Depart­ment of Agri­cul­ture (USDA) civ­il rights reg­u­la­tions and poli­cies, this insti­tu­tion is pro­hib­it­ed from dis­crim­i­nat­ing on the basis of race, col­or, nation­al ori­gin, sex, age, dis­abil­i­ty, and reprisal or retal­i­a­tion for pri­or civ­il rights activ­i­ty. (Not all pro­hib­it­ed bases apply to all pro­grams.) Pro­gram infor­ma­tion may be made avail­able in lan­guages oth­er than Eng­lish. Per­sons with dis­abil­i­ties who require alter­na­tive means of com­mu­ni­ca­tion for pro­gram infor­ma­tion (e.g., Braille, large print, audio­tape, and Amer­i­can Sign Lan­guage) should con­tact the respon­si­ble State or local Agency that admin­is­ters the pro­gram or USDA’s TAR­GET Cen­ter at (202) 720‑2600 (voice and TTY) or con­tact USDA through the Fed­er­al Relay Ser­vice at (800) 877‑8339.

To file a pro­gram dis­crim­i­na­tion com­plaint, a com­plainant should com­plete a Form AD-3027, USDA Pro­gram Dis­crim­i­na­tion Com­plaint Form, which can be obtained online at https://​www​.ocio​.usda​.gov/docu…, from any USDA office, by call­ing (866) 632‑9992, or by writ­ing a let­ter addressed to USDA. The let­ter must con­tain the com­plainan­t’s name, address, tele­phone num­ber, and a writ­ten descrip­tion of the alleged dis­crim­i­na­to­ry action in suf­fi­cient detail to inform the Assis­tant Sec­re­tary for Civ­il Rights (ASCR) about the nature and date of an alleged civ­il rights vio­la­tion. The com­plet­ed AD-3027 form or let­ter must be sub­mit­ted to USDA by:

(1) Mail: U.S. Depart­ment of Agri­cul­ture, Office of the Assis­tant Sec­re­tary for Civ­il Rights, 1400 Inde­pen­dence Avenue SW, Wash­ing­ton, D.C. 20250 – 9410; or (2) Fax: (833) 256‑1665 or (202) 690‑7442; or (3) Email: program.​intake@​usda.​gov.

More than Paper®

More than Paper is a brand­ed, mul­ti-media out­reach pro­gram. The pur­pose of More Than Paper® is to raise aware­ness regard­ing the myr­i­ad eco­log­i­cal, eco­nom­ic, social, and human health ben­e­fits that trees pro­vide for our com­mu­ni­ties. Check out more here.

Share the Fruit

Share the Fruit is an engag­ing com­mu­ni­ty dri­ven agro­forestry pro­gram devel­oped to address food inse­cu­ri­ty, Urban & Com­mu­ni­ty Forestry knowl­edge, envi­ron­men­tal inequity and resilien­cy in under­served com­mu­ni­ties. Through a part­ner­ship with The Walls Project and Baton Roots, 100 trees were plant­ed at 8 East Baton Rouge Hous­ing Author­i­ty Sites. Learn more here.

Share the Fruit by start­ing an orchard today — Con­tact winston@​louisianatrees.​com

Healthy Trees Healthy Lives

The qual­i­ty of life and health that humans enjoy in urban spaces is in large part due to the work our com­mu­ni­ty trees do for us! Check out more at healthytreeshealthylives​.org

Tree City USA

Assist­ing and encour­ag­ing munic­i­pal­i­ties to earn their Tree City USA des­ig­na­tion, and help­ing Louisiana’s col­leges and uni­ver­si­ties achieve Tree Cam­pus USA status.