WWNO

Maurepas Swamp’s upcoming reintroduction to the Mississippi River

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 ...
WWNO

This Louisiana swamp is dying, but a new, unprecedented partnership can help restore it

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 ...
NOLA.com

Revitalizing the dying Maurepas Swamp has long been a goal. Work finally begins this fall.

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 ...
AOL

Why Tupelo Honey Is the Most Coveted—and Expensive—Honey in America

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 ...