What Is a Bayou? Louisiana’s Slow Water, Explained
You’ve heard the word your whole life. Bayou. It’s in the songs, the movies, the accent. But if someone put you on the spot and asked what a bayou actually is, could you say? Most folks can’t. And that’s fair, because it’s a slippery little word for a slippery little thing: water that barely moves….
Maurepas Swamp: Inside Louisiana’s Largest Wildlife Management Area
Ask a hundred visitors in New Orleans to name a swamp and most of them will say Honey Island, a few will say Manchac, and almost none will say Maurepas. Which is wild, because the Maurepas Swamp is the biggest protected wild place of the three. It’s the largest wildlife management area in the whole…
The Manchac Swamp: History, Ecology, and the Real Story
Most people meet the Manchac Swamp through a car window, doing 70 on the I-55 bridge, and never learn they just crossed a graveyard. Two towns are under that water. So is the tail end of an international border, a clear-cut cypress forest, and one of the best wildlife corridors left in southeast Louisiana. This…