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 ...

GARYVILLE, La. (AP) — Louisiana has long relied on a vast levee system to rein in the Mississippi River and protect surrounding communities from flooding. But cutting off the natural flow of the river ...

Construction will begin this fall on a long-awaited plan to revitalize the dying Maurepas Swamp between Baton Rouge and New Orleans, the state's Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority announced ...

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 ...

Clay Schexnayder has more reason than most to be pleased to see plans to revive the Maurepas Swamp finally moving forward. The speaker of the Louisiana House of Representatives spent much of his ...

The scenic boardwalk in Beidler Forest in South Carolina's Lowcountry. The forest is the largest uncut cypress-tupelo swamp in the world, with some trees that have been growing for more than a ...

Tupelo honey may be the only variety of honey to have an album and a romantic song named after it, not to mention a city in Mississippi. That album, by Van Morrison, released in 1971, put the ...