The Maurepas freshwater diversion will be the first to rehabilitate nearly 45,000 acres of degraded and submerged “swamp forest,” where bald cypress, water tupelo and red swamp maple create ...

That anomaly of our topography feels like Mississippi or Louisiana more than Illinois with bald cypress, tupelo, slow waters and swamps. Rhine brought out a map and suggested a four-hour paddle.

The Maurepas Swamp Wildlife Management Area is the ... It's a quintessential Louisiana landscape, home to water tupelo trees and bald cypress covered in sweeping Spanish moss, alligators lurking ...

Drive through Maurepas Swamp and it may appear lush and thriving ... fresh water and sediment to improve the health of its towering bald cypress and tupelo trees. “It's the first time that ...

Maurepas Swamp just to the west of New Orleans holds Louisiana's second largest contiguous forest, a beloved state wildlife refuge filled with water tupelo and bald cypress trees, their branches ...

Afterward, kayakers caravan to the tour site – the closest remaining cypress tupelo swamp, located about 45 ... Aside from gators, you can expect to see bald eagles, deer, owls, turtles and ...

Bald-cypress is a typical tree of this vast wetland, often growing within the swamp areas, draped in moss, and providing food, nesting places and shelter for many of the animals found here. Twice a ...