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 one ...

It is a scene straight out of Louisiana lore, a seeming exemplar of swamp life: Craggy cypress trees, moss dangling from their branches, stretch out for thousands of acres atop dark, shallow waters.

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Ground was broken Tuesday, December 3, on a project to help revitalize the Maurepas Swamp’s more than 45,000 acres. According to the Louisiana Coastal Protection and ...

Construction of a 5 ½-mile channel through St. John the Baptist Parish to reintroduce Mississippi River water into the Maurepas Swamp could be completed in four years, thanks to a decision to dedicate ...

A key part of the Okefenokee Swamp was rescued by conservationists from mining, but this natural habitat is still in danger, ...

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 ...

FILE-In this Thursday, April 3, 1997 file photo, the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge in southeast Ga., is is seen. A mining company said Tuesday it plans to dig for minerals without a federal ...

MANNING — Getting rid of a body of water is the opposite of what you'd expect from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. But the Charleston office is embarking on the first-of-its-kind job in the ...

FRANKFORD, Del. (AP) - As a young boy, a high school student and now a 33-year-old adult, Andrew Martin has been swamped. The Great Cypress Swamp, Delaware Wild Lands Inc.’s 10,600-acre property ...

Sticker marks the spot of the River Reintroduction into the Maurepas Swamp project, before Gov. John Bel Edwards climbed a ladder to replace it with a blue push pin, during an announcement that the ...