Plant more trees, please

Southern magnolia is a native beauty resistant to strong winds. (Photo by Heather Kirk-Ballard/LSU AgCenter )
Let’s talk about the weather. Even if you’re a climate change skeptic, you cannot deny that weather patterns have affected your life in some way in the past five to 10 years. Here in Louisiana, for example, many experienced unprecedented flooding in 2016. Then, in 2021, we were hit with deep freezes, Hurricane Ida and the third-wettest year on record. According to the National Oceanic and…

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