The Maurepas Swamp diversion is expected to replenish around 45,000 acres of wetlands over the next 50 years, protecting Louisiana residents in nearby parishes from storm surge while reviving a ...

An environmental group is suing Louisiana, claiming state agencies violated conservation agreements by approving a CO₂ pipeline through 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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 456 square kilometers of Maurepas Swamp just to the west of New Orleans holds Louisiana's second-largest contiguous forest, a state wildlife refuge filled with water tupelo and bald cypress ...

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 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 tupelo ...