The volunteers tromped through the marsh, trying to avoid patches of brackish, black mud that threatened to engulf their shoes if they weren’t careful. In each hand, they carried spindly red swamp ...

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 ...

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 ...

Drive through Maurepas Swamp and it may appear lush and thriving. But over the past century, the swamp has been slowly dying. New trees are few and far between, and the ones there are struggling to ...