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Keeping Bay St. Louis beautiful...one flower, plant tree and project at a time.

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About

The Beautification Department was separated from the Public Works Department by Mayor Les Fillingame shortly after taking office in July 2009. The two departments continue to support one another, but have separate missions.

Projects

From planting of flowers and trees to fashion shows with recycled materials, the Beautification Department is constantly looking for ways to make Bay St. Louis a more beautiful place to live and visit.

Get Involved

Volunteers to help with the many projects have proven to be invaluable to the team. Their time and effort along with generous donations designated for our beautification efforts contribute to our success. Find out how you can get involved in something beautiful.

Contact

Needing more information about the department or how you can become more involved with making and keeping Bay St. Louis a place of beauty? Contact us and let us know.

Helpful Tip 1

National Tree Benefit Calculator allows anyone to make a simple estimation of the benefits individual street-side trees provide.

Helpful Tip 2

i-Tree Vue allows you to make use of the freely available National Land Cover Database (NLCD) satellite-based imagery to assess your community's land cover, incloding tree canopy, and some of the ecosystem services provided by your current urban forrest.

Helpful Tip 3

i-Tree Species is now a free standing utility designated to aid users in selecting proper species given the tree functions they desire.

Latest Project

Girl Scout Daisy Troop 3436 created several creatove gardens made of recycled tires. Two of the flower beds were large Daisy shaped flowers and a third design was a cute green frog with bright white eyes and red lips. Each of the units were planted by troop members Cayless, Amelia, Kara, Kaylee, Avie; their siblings, troop leaders, parents and volunteers.

The Town Green

Each month find out helpful gardening tips and ways you can help preserve and benefit from nature here in
The Town Green. This information brought to you courtesy of The Fourth Ward Cleaver.

Nature Within

This EXCELLENT site will provide you the best research based information from the best in the business from across the nation. Find out more by clicking this link for the Human Dimensions of Urban Forestry and Urban Greening website.