State and federal authorities broke ground on a conservation project to restore the 176-square-mile Maurepas Swamp near New Orleans by diverting Mississippi River water into the area ...
a state wildlife refuge filled with water tupelo and bald cypress trees, their branches adorned by wisps of Spanish moss. A beloved recreation site, the swamp also houses bald eagles, ospreys ...
Maurepas Swamp just to the west of New Orleans holds Louisiana's second largest contiguous forest, a beloved state wildlife refuge filled with water tupelo and bald cypress trees, their branches ...
But today the tree cover is sparse and sunlight ... nearly 45,000 acres of degraded and submerged “swamp forest,” where bald cypress, water tupelo and red swamp maple create native canopies.