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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Revitalizing a wide swath of the second-largest swamp in Louisiana has been discussed for at least a couple decades, but enough stars have finally aligned to allow the project to move forward. Work is ...

Chesapeake officials had sought only $300,000 for the city, which has few parks. The effort will convert a part of U.S. 17. City officials are stunned at getting $1.75 million in federal money for a ...

Come spring, native swamp and prairie grasses that have not grown for more than a century along the Des Plaines River will be sprouting near Wadsworth. In two or three years, if all goes well, the ...

This stretch of coastal lowlands on the Gulf of Mexico is so prized by environmentalists that much of it has been bought up by the state in a far-reaching preservation effort. But Tate’s Hell, named ...