FRI-FS-13: Last Trees Standing: Walking Amid Ancient Oaks, Developing Trajectories Toward Regenerative Futures

Field Session Leader(s)

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  Joseph O. Evans, III, LEED AP

  Founding Partner / Principal Evans + Lighter Landscape Architecure
  Evans+Lighter Landscape Architecture
  New Orleans, Louisiana
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  Susannah Burley, MLA (she/her/hers)

  Executive Director
  Sustaining Our Urban Landscape (SOUL)
  New Orleans, Louisiana

Live Oak, City Park, New Orleans, LA, courtesy Joseph O. Evans III

Join us on a walk-through New Orleans’ centuries old Live Oaks, while we envision the deep past and future of our region. Learn how deeply rooted communities are overcoming political headwinds to resuscitate our irreplaceable wetland ecosystem. Understand why challenging standard practice is necessary to build an abundant future.

Includes transportation.

Accessibility: The nearest walking bridges to the starting point are not accessible.

Learning Outcomes:

• Develop an understanding of the natural history of New Orleans, experiencing how the (relatively) deep past of the landscape informs the present.
• Explore how amplified biomimetic ecological infrastructure is critical to the future of the city and its surrounds.
• Learn about existential threats to the urban forest stemming from standard practice in the allied design and planning fields, and identify opportunities for its regeneration and expansion.
• Understand how communities are working with limited resources to recover biocultural heritage, and promote interventions for an abundant future for all species.