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South Louisiana's tree canopy
Posted on 9/21/21 at 7:14 pm
Posted on 9/21/21 at 7:14 pm
In the grand scheme of things, it's not a huge deal but it sucks how hurricanes frick of the trees around here. A lot of Uptown Nola's charm is its lushness but Ida did a number on the area.
This post was edited on 9/21/21 at 10:31 pm
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Posted on 9/21/21 at 7:17 pm to yaboidarrell
Everything you love about Louisiana is because of hurricanes
Posted on 9/21/21 at 7:18 pm to yaboidarrell
The problem is with a lot of the undergrowth that would’ve filled in these holes has been replaced with streets and buildings.
Posted on 9/21/21 at 7:49 pm to yaboidarrell
Atleast short sighted loggers didn't cut down a lot of the live oaks and cypress and replace them with pine trees like alot of CenLa. But I agree, SouthLa trees are the bomb. Spring time in BR and Nola were always early and awesome.
Posted on 9/21/21 at 7:58 pm to yaboidarrell
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Nola's charm
Not much of that left and its not because of hurricanes
Posted on 9/21/21 at 8:04 pm to Ping Pong
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Not much of that left and its not because of hurricanes
It’s getting worse and worse
Posted on 9/21/21 at 8:12 pm to BorrisMart
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Atleast short sighted loggers didn't cut down a lot of the live oaks and cypress and replace them with pine trees like alot of CenLa.
Alot of CenLa was pines historically. Not Loblolly plantations, but still pine.
Loblolly plantations suck. Longleaf pine habitats are cool as shite, though.
To OPs point, I said the same thing about SWLA last year. But storms like this make you wonder how prevalent major storms like this were in the past. There's a reason so much of our coastal zone is/was treeless historically, and it's not just because of inundation and fires. Not many trees can withstand all of the forces of nature that have been present throughout history in this region.
Ecologically, we tend to focus on fire and flooding as major factors in the development of many of South Louisiana's ecosystems, but tropical systems likely played a large role in those systems as well.
This post was edited on 9/21/21 at 8:18 pm
Posted on 9/21/21 at 8:14 pm to Ping Pong
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Not much of that left and its not because of hurricanes
I disagree. Katrina ruined New Orleans and all that’s left is yankee hipsters bitching about Entergy.
Posted on 9/21/21 at 8:17 pm to TigerOnTheMountain
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I disagree. Katrina ruined New Orleans and all that’s left is yankee hipsters bitching about Entergy.
Nola has been declining for decades. Katrina just sped it up
Posted on 9/21/21 at 8:18 pm to CaptainsWafer
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The problem is with a lot of the undergrowth that would’ve filled in these holes has been replaced with streets and buildings.
Or they could have just proactively planted younger trees over the past decade so that they're not all just the old arse trees that were there 100 years ago, or new trees that were planted 5 years ago.
Posted on 9/21/21 at 8:19 pm to Ping Pong
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Katrina just sped it up
That’s true. It’s a warped version of what some Massachusetts born Tulane grad thinks NO was now.
Posted on 9/21/21 at 8:34 pm to yaboidarrell
quote:You don’t sound like you’re from the Soith.
Soith Louisiana's tree canopy
You sound like a goddam Boston Yankee.
Posted on 9/21/21 at 8:38 pm to yaboidarrell
You should’ve seen City Park after Katrina. It was like an atomic bomb went off. It still looks different to me in some spots.
Posted on 9/21/21 at 9:06 pm to yaboidarrell
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Soith
Posted on 9/21/21 at 9:18 pm to Cowboyfan89
Dude, the reason there aren’t trees in the marsh area of Louisiana is because trees can’t typically grow in salt/brackish water. It has nothing to do with hurricanes. Once you get into freshwater, there’s billions of trees in Louisiana. There’s a divide north and south of intracoastal sheerly bc of salt. Drive I-10 between Laffy and Nola and outside of man made cities and farms, it’s nothing but tens of thousands of trees per sq mile
This post was edited on 9/21/21 at 9:21 pm
Posted on 9/21/21 at 9:43 pm to johnstamosfanclub
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Dude, the reason there aren’t trees in the marsh area of Louisiana is because trees can’t typically grow in salt/brackish water.
There use to be trees to the GOM when the bayous were distributaries of the Mississippi River.
I can show you the stumps.
We took a bad hit on the bayous of Terrebonne/ Lafourche with Ida. Many huge old oaks and pecans.
I watched many huge trees fall during the storm. They would sway bag and forth and then give with a pop.
One fell across the street right after i passed it. I saw it n my rear view when I heard it.
That’s when I decided to not ride around and just sit where I was safe on the boat landing.
It was blowing.
Posted on 9/21/21 at 10:27 pm to yaboidarrell
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This post was edited on 9/21/21 at 10:32 pm
Posted on 9/21/21 at 10:37 pm to Bigfishchoupique
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There use to be trees to the GOM when the bayous were distributaries of the Mississippi River.
I can show you the stumps.
This. Used to be tons of big oak trees all the way to grand isle. A combination of US Corp of Engineers frickery and hurricanes took them out.
Posted on 9/21/21 at 10:39 pm to HoboDickCheese
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Everything you love about Louisiana is because of hurricanes
That is correct.
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