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 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 ...

The 220-square-mile Maurepas Swamp includes bald cypress and tupelo trees. Like other swamps in coastal Louisiana, its health is in peril. Levees built along the Mississippi after the Great Flood ...

Maurepas Swamp revitalization plans: The state is planning to reconnect the Maurepas Swamp west of New Orleans to the Mississippi River through a diversion channel, with the dual aim of improving ...

Drive through Maurepas Swamp and it may appear lush and thriving. But over the past century, the swamp has been slowly dying. New trees are few and far between, and the ones there are struggling ...

The River Reintroduction into Maurepas Swamp will allow for a maximum of 2000 cubic feet per second (57 cubic meters per second) to flow out of a gated opening to be built in the levee system and ...

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.

The Maurepas Swamp comprises six tracts of land, four of which — donated or purchased with strict conservation stipulations — are at the heart of the dispute. These tracts, including the Boyce, East ...

An environmental group is suing Louisiana, claiming the state illegally approved a CO₂ pipeline through Maurepas Swamp. The lawsuit argues the project violates conservation agreements. Here’s… ...

A trip to New Orleans is always fun with eating beignets, drinking Sazeracs and grasshoppers, dancing to the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, and gawking at the Audubon Aquarium of the Americas. Just ...

Louisiana’s coastal restoration agency has gotten $14 million to engineer a system to reconnect the Mississippi River to the Maurepas Swamp, which has been cut off from its rejuvenating floodwaters ...