Today the state is breaking ground on the Maurepas Swamp Project in St. John the Baptist Parish. A freshwater divergence that ...
State and federal authorities in Louisiana celebrated breaking ground on an ambitious $330 million conservation project ...
The project will reunite one of the largest forested wetlands in the nation with the Mississippi River more than 80 years ...
State and federal authorities broke ground on a conservation project to restore the 176-square-mile Maurepas Swamp near New ...
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 ...
Reconnecting the dying swamp to fresh river water is vital for the health of the swamp’s cypress-tupelo forest, which ...
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.