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Bayou Rouge Environmental & Planning, LLC is an environmental planning firm based in Southeast Louisiana focusing on projects that exist at the confluence of science and planning. The firm was established by an urban planner, Maggie Gleason, and an environmental scientist, Savannah Morales. While working together on projects in coastal areas of Louisiana and Mississippi, Maggie and Savannah recognized a disconnect in the alignment between environmental science, data, and community planning that is necessary for projects to be sustainable. The firm is a Certified Small Business, a Small and Emerging Business Enterprise, and a certified Small Entrepreneurship with the Louisiana Economic Development’s Hudson Initiative.
The intent of Bayou Rouge is to better link communities to their natural environments by using science, data, and planning to create sustainable, equitable, and healthy places to thrive.
Maggie Gleason, AICP
Maggie has 16 years of responsible, professional, planning experience. She managed a staff of five in the long range planning division of East Baton Rouge Parish in Louisiana where all comprehensive planning was done in-house, including public engagement, updates, annual reporting, and implementation. Since 2017, she has worked with communities to redevelop brownfield sites through planning, grant management, and community engagement. She also has experience in complete streets, historic preservation, urban forestry, and economic development. Prior to working in Baton Rouge, Maggie began her planning career in Mandeville, Louisiana as the Urban Forestry and Landscape planner and was heavily involved in place making projects.
Maggie spends her free time coaching girls soccer, advocating for autism acceptance and inclusion, and traveling with her family.
Savannah R. Morales, PWS
Savannah is a certified Professional Wetland Scientist specializing in Natural Resources. She has published peer-reviewed research in the Water Resources Research scientific journal. She has worked on natural resource projects in seven states across the Southeastern U.S. She earned both her Master’s and Bachelor’s Degrees from Louisiana State University concentrating in Renewable Natural Resources – Watershed Science and Natural Resource and Ecology Management – Wetland Science, respectively.
In her free time Savannah enjoys spending time with her family, hiking, painting, gardening, identifying plants, and crawfishing in the Atchafalaya Basin with her father or husband.
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