The volunteers tromped through the marsh, trying to avoid patches of brackish, black mud that threatened to engulf their shoes if they weren’t careful. In each hand, they carried spindly red swamp ...
On Tuesday, the state’s Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA) officially began to reconnect the Mississippi River with the Maurepas Swamp, a degraded and submerged swamp forest directly ...
GARYVILLE, La. (AP) — Louisiana has long relied on a vast levee system to rein in the Mississippi River and protect surrounding communities from flooding. But cutting off the natural flow of the river ...
Construction will begin this fall on a long-awaited plan to revitalize the dying Maurepas Swamp between Baton Rouge and New Orleans, the state's Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority announced ...
Clay Schexnayder has more reason than most to be pleased to see plans to revive the Maurepas Swamp finally moving forward. The speaker of the Louisiana House of Representatives spent much of his ...
A cypress-tupelo forest in the Ivory Swamp. The same Ivory Swamp cypress-tupelo forest after loggers cut its larger cypress trees for mulch. Tour guide and environmental activist Dean Wilson holds a ...
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