This Louisiana swamp is ... project manager Brad Miller explains the benefit of a new partnership between the state and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers during a tour of Maurepas Swamp on ...

The project is expected to replenish around 45,000 acres of wetlands over the next 50 years, protecting Louisiana residents ...

Louisiana’s coastal restoration agency has gotten $14 million to engineer a system to reconnect the Mississippi River to the Maurepas Swamp, which has been cut off from its rejuvenating floodwaters ...

A Louisiana swamp is dying, ... For the first time, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is allowing the state to fill that mitigation requirement with a coastal project, ...

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 ...

ATCHAFALAYA BASIN, Louisiana — The men who rely on the waters here to make a living were confident that President Donald Trump and his administration would help them clean up their swamp. But ...

Engineering the river has come with trade-offs, said Paul Kemp, a semiretired hydrologist who helped start the Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana, a nonprofit.

Discover how The Atchafalaya Basin protects Louisiana's coast from hurricanes. In the Atchafalaya Basin—the largest river swamp in the U.S.—ancient cypress trees act as natural barriers ...

The state’s $50 billion plan to re-engineer its coastline may wash some fishing communities off the map. Skip to content Skip to site index Destroying a Way of Life to Save Louisiana ...

As a historically high Mississippi River rolls through Louisiana, ... To save Louisiana’s lowlands, officials want to re-engineer the Mississippi ...

Louisiana’s Congressional DelegationThe state’s seven congressmen have taken a collective $317,000 from the industry since 2000—1/3 of which has gone to Rep. Jim McCrery (R) alone.

Louisiana’s coastal restoration agency has gotten $14 million to engineer a system to reconnect the Mississippi River to the Maurepas Swamp, which has been cut off from its rejuvenating floodwaters ...