About Trees & Trails
This interactive website will support the educational aspects of the Trees & Trails project using many useful teacher tools including downloadable pre-tests and post-tests.Teachers in the East Baton Rouge Parish School District(grades K-5) participating in a Trees and Trails field trip will receive six contact hours to to be applied towards their staff development requirements in the public school system.
The Louisiana Department of Agriculture & Forestry has been working closely with many project partners to develop learning opportunities along the trails that use award-winning Project Learning Tree activities (correlated to state benchmarks and GLE’s), and have provided an outdoor pavilion for group instruction.The trail system was envisioned by legendary tree advocate, Steele Burden, decades ago prior to the donation of his family’s property to LSU (1966-1994).
The Trees & Trails project is in keeping with The Burden Foundation’s understanding of the importance of good stewardship of nature and her natural resources. Baton Rouge Green, the Junior League and FORUM 35 have joined hands to blaze nature trails through the forest at Burden Center. The LSU Ag Center will aid in project implementation and maintain the trails.