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Marsh Island is an uninhabited low-lying marshy island in Iberia Parish, south coastal Louisiana, lying between Vermilion Bay and the Gulf of Mexico.It is bordered on the south by the Gulf of Mexico and is separated from mainland Louisiana by East Cote Blanche Bay to its east, West Cote Blanche Bay to its north, Vermilion Bay to its northwest, and Southwest Pass to its west.
Marsh Island is 20 miles (32 km) east to west and 11 miles (18 km) north to south. The island has many named and unnamed lakes and bayous such as Lake Hawkins, Hawkins Bayou, Lake Tom, Worm Bayou, Lake Blanc, Scat Lake, Lake Michael, Gordy Lake, Lake Sand, Oyster Lake, Oyster Branch, West Oyster Branch, and East Oyster Branch on the east side of the island.
In 2015 the Louisiana State Senate passed a bill urging and requesting that the WMA be renamed in memory of J.C. "Sonny" Gilbert (1922–2014). Gilbert was a member of the state senate from 1960 to 1972, a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives in 1972, and served on the Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission (LWFC) from 1976 to ...
There are two swim beaches at Cotile Recreation Area, 15 miles west of Alexandria at 75 Cotile Lake Road in Boyce. The cost is $5 per vehicle with up to four people to enter and .50 cents per ...
Hutchinson Creek Wildlife Management Area St. Helena: 129 Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries J. C. "Sonny" Gilbert Wildlife Management Area (former Sicily Island Hills WMA) [13] Catahoula Parish 7,524 Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries: John Franks Wildlife Management Area Caddo 3,664 U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Map of the Shell Keys Reservation from Executive Order 682, establishing the refuge.. Due to coastal erosion, the refuge boundary is not well defined.It has been described as "... a small group of unsurveyed islets located in the Gulf of Mexico about three and one half miles south of Marsh Island (Louisiana), and approximately at latitude 29 degrees 26 minutes north, longitude 91 degrees 51 ...
Bird City, Avery Island, Louisiana, c. 2005. Bird City is a private wildfowl refuge or bird sanctuary located on Avery Island in coastal Iberia Parish, Louisiana.. It was founded by Tabasco sauce heir and conservationist Edward Avery McIlhenny, whose family owned Avery Island.
Instead of battling California’s escalating cost of living — where the median home price has surged to $773,363, reflecting a 5.1% increase over the past year, according to Zillow — Russell ...