The Bayou Bridge pipeline crosses the Atchafalaya Basin in southern Louisiana. Mitigation credits for cypress swamps affected by the project come from the Bayou Fisher Mitigation Bank, about 55 ...

The bald cypress is the calling card of Louisiana's swamps, with its "knees" jutting up through the still water and moss hanging from its branches. But soil subsidence, storm surges and saltwater ...

The steamy swamps, marshes and bayous along the Louisiana Gulf Coast and throughout the Mississippi Delta make up the Louisiana wetlands, one of the most unusual and fragile ecosystems in the U.S.

And along the bayou, passengers get treated to an original song by Captain Billy, a real Cajun Man who loves to share the natural beauty of this swamp. “I’m the Cajun Man. It’s what I am.

MAUREPAS, La. (WAFB) - Still waters reflect the greens of palmettos and the blue Louisiana sky. A lone egret fishes for lunch at the base of bald cypress. Autumn in the swamps is as quiet as a ...

NEW ORLEANS -- Minutes from the New Orleans Central Business District, an airboat whisks us into another world, a seemingly untouched place populated by alligators and bald eagles. But Russell ...

Louisiana is gaining interest in a different type of fall color that appears in November on the bald cypress trees. Shades of red, brown, and orange are mirrored in our lakes and bayous.

The National Champion Bald Cypress can be found in Louisiana at the Cat Island National Wildlife Refuge near St. Francisville. It is estimated to be 1,500 years old and is 96 feet tall and 56 feet ...

Turn off that swamp people reality TV show and get a taste of an actual cypress-tupelo swamp in all of its natural glory. Father-son team Butch and Shawn Guchereau invite as many as 19 guests each ...

A 1,000-plus-old bald cypress tree in the Cache River swamp holds the state title for ... The Cache River feels mystical — more like a Louisiana bayou or the Florida Everglades than Southern ...

The bald cypress is the calling card of Louisiana's swamps, with its "knees" jutting up through the still water and moss hanging from its branches. But soil subsidence, storm surges and saltwater ...