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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 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.
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 ...
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… ...
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 ...
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 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 River Reintroduction into Maurepas Swamp will allow for a maximum of 57 cubic meters per second to flow out of a gated opening to be built in the levee system and routed along a 9 9-kilometer ...
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 ...