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 ...

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 ...

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 ...