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 ...

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 ...

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.

A stretch of more than 45,000 acres of swampland between New Orleans and Baton Rouge has been slowly dying, killing off ...

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 ...

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, Feb. 13-- Gov. John Bel Edwards, D-Louisiana, issued the following news: Gov. John Bel Edwards announced that the RESTORE Council has voted to approve $130 million in Deepwater ...

Brad Miller, a project manager with the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA), looks out at the Maurepas Swamp on Friday, February 3, 2023. The new Mississippi River diversion will bring ...