Before and after Hurricane Katrina of the grounds at Beauvoir
Live Oak Tree Rescue Mission, completed by the Land Trust in partnership with the Mississippi Forestry Commission and with funding from the Home Depot. The Mississippi Forestry Commission provided a forester who assisted in identifying which trees were most likely to survive. With the help of volunteers, the forester marked approximately 555 trees by tying yellow ribbons around their trunks. All of these trees had major problems with soil erosion. The rescued trees were watered, had topsoil added around their exposed roots, and mulched. Also, construction fencing was placed around the trees to protect them during debris removal. These trees were on both private and public properties. One photo is of a worker putting the soil around a tree on highway 90.
The other three pictures show a 400 plus year old oak tree in Ocean Springs. The first photo shows the large oak tree entangled with hurricane debris. The second photo shows the same tree after the Live Oak Rescue volunteers removed the debris and spread mulch around the tree's root zone to cover any roots that had been exposed by Hurricane Katrina's flood waters. The last photo is a current view of the tree which is thriving following our rescue efforts.
Before and after photos of the Frank Gehry designed Ohr Museum which he entitled "Dancing with the Trees." Note in the "after" photo that the remains of the museum and the Counselor Oak are lying on the ground.
600 plus year old Counselor Oak which was on the grounds of the old Land Trust office before both the oak tree and the office were destroyed by a casino barge during Hurricane Katrina.
