This month the nonprofit, Sustaining Our Urban Landscape (SOUL) launched its Reforesting Park Project. Their goal is to plant a tree in front of every home in the Pontchartrain Park community.
The executive director of SOUL expressed that this planting project has the potential of creating a “huge environmental impact.”
Pontchartrain Park came to be in 1955, in a suburban and predominantly Black community. Over the years, it suffered from a lack of trees and flood damage.
On Saturday, October 16th, volunteers partook in planting trees in the neighborhood from 9:45 am until 1 pm.
Original post by New Orleans City Business
Read more here: https://neworleanscitybusiness.com/blog/2021/10/15/reforestation-set-for-historic-new-orleans-neighborhood/
