A proposed Atchafalaya Basin project is meant to restore wetlands, but some say it could drown communities and devastate a ...

The closure of the 405-foot-long Bayou Chene floodgate is the first time the three-year-old structure has been used due to high water in the Atchafalaya, a St. Mary Parish levee official said.

Dean Wilson, founder of the Atchafalaya Basinkeeper, in the basin in October, 2024 with a butterfly on his hand (Sabrina Canfield/Courthouse News) BAYOU SORREL, La. (CN) — On a warm Saturday in ...

Native Americans on the snow-covered plains of North Dakota protesting a proposed pipeline they fear will threaten their drinking water may seem far removed from Louisiana. But the same company ...

A great white heron appears through trees on Bayou Sorrel in the Atchafalaya River Basin in Louisiana in 2018. | Gerald Herbert/AP The CPRA declined interview requests, but responded to some ...

a 135-mile-long scenic bayou that starts at Port Barre and snakes its way through Cajun country on the way to the Atchafalaya River at Morgan City. If you drive through southwest Louisiana, you ...

Construction on the Bayou Bridge pipeline ... groups that include the Atchafalaya Basinkeeper, the Sierra Club, the Gulf Restoration Network, the Louisiana Crawfish Producers Association-West ...

“We’re grateful to our Louisiana ... along Bayou Lafourche, he said that he couldn’t pursue projects within Lafourche parish because it wasn’t officially included in the Atchafalaya ...

ATCHAFALAYA. IT'S THE NAME THE CHOCTAW GAVE THIS MEANDERING LOUISIANA RIVER ALMOST 300 YEARS ... OF BATON ROUGE AND MY MOTHER'S FAMILY WAS FROM BAYOU CHENE. THE PEOPLE WHO SETTLED IN BAYOU CHENE ...

Just west of town you'll find the Atchafalaya Basin ... Saint Martinville is a gateway to Louisiana's iconic bayous and swamps. The Bayou Teche Paddle Trail, a 135-mile waterway, passes right ...