While many people are vaguely aware of Louisiana's incredible biodiversity, did you know there's a must-see 750-acre lake ...

Is it family vacation time? Look no further than the Atchafalaya Basin. The nation's largest river swamp has something for everyone. The Basin starts near Simmesport and runs 140 miles southward to ...

Gov. John Bel Edwards on Monday created a new Atchafalaya River Basin Restoration and Enhancement Task Force to help the state navigate the conflicting interests within the basin, including fishers, ...

Four residents of Acadiana were appointed this week to the Governor’s Advisory Task Force on Atchafalaya River Basin Restoration and Enhancement. Jody P. Meche of Henderson, Robert C. “Rudy” Sparks Jr ...

A federal judge stopped construction Friday of the Bayou Bridge Pipeline though the Atchafalaya River Basin, one of North America’s “ecological crown jewels” and largest swamp, pending a final ruling.

Why Louisiana chose the black bear in 1992, a reminder of habitat loss, recovery efforts, and the link between wildlife and ...

A decision by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to send more water into the Atchafalaya Basin could be a boon for crawfishermen, and some state officials are hoping it’s a sign the federal agency might ...

Swamp land. Remote, forbidding, treacherous. The Atchafalaya Swamp. It's the largest wetland in the United States. For years it was a major barrier, isolating Acadiana from much of the state. Before ...

Boaters move down an east-west pipeline canal, the same corridor that would be used for the proposed Bayou Bridge Pipeline, near a warning sign and barrier posts that mark a north-south pipeline ...

The Wax Lake Delta in the Atchafalaya Basin is seen from 8,500 feet in St. Mary Parish, La., Tuesday, May 25, 2021. In geological time, young means thousands of years. On that scale, Louisiana's Wax ...

ST. MARTIN PARISH, La. (KLFY) — Local leaders and residents of St. Martin Parish held a meeting at the Catahoula multipurpose building to discuss a new management plan aimed at protecting the ...

Federal officials warned people living in the Atchafalaya Basin Thursday that rising Mississippi River waters may force them to open the Morganza Spillway to protect levees downriver in the Baton ...