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Atchafalaya Basin. The wetlands of Louisiana are water-saturated coastal and swamp regions of southern Louisiana, often called "Bayou".. The Louisiana coastal zone stretches from the border of Texas to the Mississippi line [1] and comprises two wetland-dominated ecosystems, the Deltaic Plain of the Mississippi River (unit 1, 2, and 3) and the closely linked Chenier Plain (unit 4). [2]
The Atchafalaya Basin, or Atchafalaya Swamp (/ ə ˌ tʃ æ f ə ˈ l aɪ ə /; Louisiana French: Atchafalaya, [atʃafalaˈja]), is the largest wetland and swamp in the United States. Located in south central Louisiana, it is a combination of wetlands and river delta area where the Atchafalaya River and the Gulf of Mexico converge.
Pages in category "Wetlands and bayous of Louisiana" The following 46 pages are in this category, out of 46 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Louisiana Wildlife Management Areas are protected conservation areas within the state of Louisiana. The goal is protecting, conserving, and replenishing wildlife, including all aquatic life. The goal is protecting, conserving, and replenishing wildlife, including all aquatic life.
As the wetlands became navigable with more shipping channels and canals, the Maroons were increasingly hunted down. Maroon communities still existed in wetlands elsewhere, like Brazil and Jamaica, but in Bayou Bienvenue their communities ceased to exist either through capture or destruction of the landscape that had sustained them.
Louisiana's wetlands are one of the nation's most productive and important natural assets. Consisting of natural levees, barrier islands, forests, swamps, and fresh, brackish and saline marshes, the region is home to complex ecosystems and habitats that are necessary for sustaining its unique and vibrant nature. [ 22 ]
The creation of CPRA was ordered by U.S. Congress in Pub. L. 109–148 (text). [5] The CPRA's forerunner, the Wetlands Conservation and Restoration Authority, was restructured as the CPRA by Act 8 of the First Extraordinary Session of 2005 [1] when the tasks of coastal restoration and hurricane protection were consolidated under a single authority.
Bayou Lafourche (/ l ə ˈ f uː ʃ / lə-FOOSH [1]), originally called Chetimachas River [2] or La Fourche des Chetimaches [3] (the fork of the Chitimacha), is a 106-mile-long (171 km) [4] bayou in southeastern Louisiana, United States, that flows into the Gulf of Mexico.