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The property, previously known as Terzia Game Preserve, under cooperative agreements with the state of Louisiana since 1935, was renamed Georgia Pacific WMA in 1966. Georgia Pacific Corporation transferred the property to a subsidy, The Timber Company , and the property was acquired by Plum Creek Timber Company during a 2001 merger.
Grand Isle State Park is the only state-owned and -operated beach on the Louisiana gulf coast. [24] Jimmie Davis State Park: Jackson Parish: 294 acres (119 ha) [25] 1996 [26] Many of the largest bass caught in Louisiana have been in Caney Lake Reservoir which is in the park. [27] As of 2010, the largest bass from Louisiana was caught at Caney ...
The District Office is located on LA 28 West, two miles (3 km) east of Gardner and ten miles (16 km) west of Alexandria, Louisiana. Wolf Rock Cave, the only known cave in Louisiana, is located just off Parish road 455 (locally known as Johnsonville road) [9] in Vernon Parish. The 70 foot above ground cave is situated beside Bundick Creek and is ...
St. Tammany and Washington Parishes, Louisiana and Pearl River County, Mississippi: LA 1980: 40,000 acres (160 km 2) [157] Breton National Wildlife Refuge: St. Bernard Parish Plaquemines Parish: LA 1904: 13,000 acres (53 km 2) [158] Cameron Prairie National Wildlife Refuge: Cameron Parish: LA 1986 9,621 acres (38.93 km 2) [159] Cat Island ...
This category includes articles on protected areas within the U.S. state of Louisiana. This includes federal, state, local and privately controlled/owned areas. This includes federal, state, local and privately controlled/owned areas.
Louisiana's ecology is in a land area of 51,840 square miles (134,264 km 2); the state is 379 miles (610 km) long and 130 miles (231 km) wide and is located between latitude: 28° 56′ N to 33° 01′ N, and longitude: 88° 49′ W to 94° 03′ W, with a humid subtropical climate (Köppen climate classification Cfa).
Breton National Wildlife Refuge is located in southeastern Louisiana in the offshore Breton Islands and Chandeleur Islands. It is located in the Gulf of Mexico and is accessible only by boat. The refuge was established in 1904 through executive order of President Theodore Roosevelt and is the second-oldest refuge in the National Wildlife Refuge ...
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]