Imagine a Baton Rouge riverfront with multiple parks, a garden, a promenade, residential areas and outdoor dining integrated with a trolley to take you from place to place. A group of 22 LSU students ...

Lake Charles, Louisiana (KPLC) - The past few years have changed Louisiana’s landscape with hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, and many major events, which left a lot of room for change in our landscape.

Emory Smith donated the property for the arboretum to LSU in 1981. The university’s school of landscape architecture was charged with managing the site. The 14-acre property, seven miles south of the ...

But there has been push back from some community members and elected officials. Most recently, a group of LSU landscape architecture graduate students jumped into the debate, presenting a final ...