On Tuesday, the state’s Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA) officially began to reconnect the Mississippi River with the Maurepas Swamp, a degraded and submerged swamp forest directly ...
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 ...
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 ...
A stretch of more than 45,000 acres of swampland between New Orleans and Baton Rouge has been slowly dying, killing off ...
MT. AIRY, La. (WVUE) - State, local and federal leaders broke ground Tuesday (Dec. 3) on a project to divert Mississippi River water down a 5½-mile channel, and save a dying ecosystem in the process.
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 ...
About 4,000 years ago, the once-meandering Mississippi River switched course yet again, forming a delta that eventually led to the creation of Lakes Maurepas and Pontchartrain while building the ...