The Maurepas Swamp has been dying for nearly 100 years, because levees have blocked it from the Mississippi River, depriving the swamp’s bald cypress and water tupelo trees of the river’s ...

A unique project to resuscitate the dying Maurepas Swamp, an overlooked treasure nestled between New Orleans and Baton Rouge along Interstate 10, broke ground on Tuesday. The project will reunite ...

The Maurepas Swamp is a 176-square-mile wetland 26 miles west of New Orleans, bordering Maurepas Lake, a 93-square-mile brackish estuary. It's a quintessential Louisiana landscape, home to water ...

The state has signed a construction contract for an initial phase of the work at the swamp, which sits between New Orleans and Baton Rouge.

The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF) announced on Saturday, Nov. 23, that deer hunting season has reopened across the Maurepas Swamp Wildlife Management Area.

Healthy Gulf, a New Orleans-based environmental nonprofit represented by Earthjustice, has launched a legal battle against the State of Louisiana, accusing state agencies of violating conservation ...

An environmental group is suing Louisiana, claiming state agencies violated conservation agreements by approving a CO₂ pipeline through the Maurepas Swamp Wildlife Management Area.

The 176 square mile (456 square kilometers) Maurepas Swamp just to the west of New Orleans holds Louisiana's second largest contiguous forest, a beloved state wildlife refuge filled with water ...

GRAMERCY, La. (WVUE) - Motorists heading up Interstate 10 near Gramercy might view the Maurepas Swamp as a thriving, living Louisiana postcard. Yet, deeper inside the swamp, something is horribly ...

The 176 square mile (456 square kilometers) Maurepas Swamp just to the west of New Orleans holds Louisiana's second largest contiguous forest, a beloved state wildlife refuge filled with water ...