Scott Courtright -Trinity Tree Consultants

Thibodaux Rotary Club

January 14, 2014

Mr. Courtright has been in the “green industry” his entire professional career. He currently owns and operates Trinity Tree Consultants.  He received his Bachelor of Science Degree in Forest Management from Louisiana State University in 1996 and has been a Louisiana Licensed Arborist for 15 years.

As a Forester/Arborist, Scott has provided Expert Witness Testimony, conducted tree evaluations, produced tree management plans, tree inventories, tree restoration plans, tree evaluations, and tree appraisals. He was chief consultant for New Orleans City Park after Hurricane Katrina, in the effort to restore the park’s many old oak trees.

Additionally, Mr. Courtright conducts seminars, talks, and forums addressing urban forestry/arboriculture, traditional forestry, Geographic Information Systems/Global Positioning Systems Technologies, and responses to environmental incidences.

Scott has also been a keynote speaker for several Master Gardener events throughout Louisiana. He currently serves on the Louisiana Urban Forestry Council and is currently serving as the Chairman for the Educational Committee as well as the Educational Chairman for the 2014 Burden Museum and Garden Arbor Day Celebration in Baton Rouge.

One of the great natural symbols of the coastal plain of the Southern United States has to be the live oak tree, of the genus Quercus Virginiana. No one who lives outside of our region can imagine how the graceful, stately tree defines our environment.

When we realize, too, that so many old survivors were here to witness the explorations of the Spanish and French in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, there is nothing less than a sense of mystery, and even awe, about such grand old things.