In 2026, volunteers began planting 30,000 trees to rebuild the wetland forest that once shielded New Orleans from storms
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August 18, 2026
30,000 native trees near New Orleans and Lake Borgne, PC: AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel In the wetlands behind a pumping station near Lake Borgne in Meraux, Louisiana, hundreds of young saplings stand wrapped in white plastic cylinders as volunteers ferry…