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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
The dying Maurepas Swamp between Baton Rouge and New Orleans is another step closer to being revitalized thanks to a $60 million grant, the last major funding needed to construct the nearly $500 ...
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 ...