Living Roadways Actively caring for public trees and investing in green infrastructure

“This organization has made remarkable progress over the years to bring a bit of nature into the urban environment... Today we are enjoying the fruits of their accomplishments. Thanks to everyone who support Baton Rouge Green and special accolades for this visionary work.”

Dr. Neil Odenwald Professor Emeritus of Landscape Architecture, LSU

Caring & Maintaining

Baton Rouge Green cares for and main­tains these trees con­stant­ly, which can involve prun­ing, fer­til­iza­tion, weed con­trol, insect con­trol and inci­dent man­age­ment. We do this through a coop­er­a­tive agree­ment with the Louisiana Depart­ment of Trans­porta­tion and Devel­op­ment and in col­lab­o­ra­tion with the East Baton Rouge Parish Depart­ment of Pub­lic Works.

Benefits to Human Health

Health ben­e­fits have also been doc­u­ment­ed, espe­cial­ly with regard to improved air qual­i­ty and peo­ple with pul­monary issues. Sev­er­al schol­ar­ly stud­ies also sug­gest that enhanced veg­e­ta­tion along­side road­ways cor­re­lates to low­er stress and frus­tra­tion in dri­vers, and reduced crash rates. Not to men­tion, the trees are beautiful!

Made Possible by our Community

This vital work is entire­ly sup­port­ed by spon­sor­ships from pri­vate cit­i­zens, and local busi­ness­es and indus­try. In this way, the Liv­ing Road­ways pro­gram rep­re­sents the best of our com­mu­ni­ty: a part­ner­ship between non-prof­it, pri­vate and pub­lic enti­ties for the ulti­mate bet­ter­ment of the entire Baton Rouge com­mu­ni­ty and its citizenry.