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Bayou Macon Wildlife Management Area East Carroll: 6,919 Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Bayou Pierre Wildlife Management Area DeSoto, Red River: 2,799 Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Ben Lilly Conservation Area [5] Morehouse: 247 State of Louisiana; managed by the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries ...
Bayou Sauvage National Wildlife Refuge: New Orleans: LA 1990: 22,770 acres (92.1 km 2) [153] Bayou Teche National Wildlife Refuge: St. Mary Parish: LA 2001: 9,028 acres (36.54 km 2) [154] Big Branch Marsh National Wildlife Refuge: St. Tammany Parish: LA 2001: 24,000 acres (97 km 2) [155] Black Bayou Lake National Wildlife Refuge: Ouachita ...
Waterbirds in a wetlands management area of Bayou Sauvage National Wildlife Refuge. An enormous wading bird rookery can be found in the swamps of the refuge from May until July, while tens of thousands of waterfowl winter in its marshes. The brown pelican is a year-round resident of southeast Louisiana. The number of nesting brown pelicans has ...
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]
Bayou Sauvage National Wildlife Refuge; Bayou Segnette State Park; Bayou St. John; Big Branch Marsh National Wildlife Refuge; Black Bayou Lake National Wildlife Refuge;
Bayou Segnette State Park is located in Westwego, Jefferson Parish, southwest of New Orleans, Louisiana, on the west bank of the Mississippi River. Bayou Segnette is not far from the urban center of New Orleans, yet it features access to two types of wetlands, swamp and marsh .
D'Arbonne National Wildlife Refuge is a National Wildlife Refuge of the United States located north of West Monroe, Louisiana. It is in Ouachita and Union Parishes on either side of Bayou D'Arbonne near its confluence with the Ouachita River. It lies on the western edge of the Mississippi River alluvial valley.
Louisiana contains a number of areas which are, in varying degrees, protected from human intervention. In addition to National Park Service sites and areas and the Kisatchie National Forest, Louisiana operates a system of state parks, state historic sites, one state preservation area, one state forest, and many Wildlife Management Areas.