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Iberia Parish: 76,664 (now 71,000) LDWF [25] Queen Bess Island Wildlife Refuge Jefferson 37 Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Rockefeller Wildlife Refuge: Cameron Parish, Vermilion Parish: 71,000 State of Louisiana [26] St. Tammany Wildlife Refuge St. Tammany Parish: 1,310
The Honey Island Swamp (French: Marais de l'Île-de-Miel, Spanish: Pantano de Isla de la Miel) is a marshland located in the eastern portion of the U.S. state of Louisiana in St. Tammany Parish. Honey Island earned its name due to the abundance of honey bees once seen on a nearby isle. [1]
The facilities at Big Branch Marsh NWR were damaged by Hurricane Katrina.The Boy Scout Road Trail boardwalk was destroyed but a new and improved boardwalk was built in early 2007.
St. Tammany Parish (French: Paroisse de Saint-Tammany; Spanish: Parroquia de St. Tammany) is a parish located in the U.S. state of Louisiana named after Tamanend, [3] the legendary Lenape Chief of Chiefs and the "Patron Saint of America." [3] [4] [5] At the 2020 census, the population was 264,570, making it the fourth-most populous parish in ...
Louisiana quillwort (Isoetes louisianensis), found in Washington and St. Tammany parishes, was classified as an endangered species in 1992. [7] The species was identified on several creeks and bayous in Washington and St. Tammany Parish, in the Pearl River basin, including the Bogue Chitto National Wildlife Refuge and the Pearl River WMA. [8]
On June 30, 1980, President Jimmy Carter signed Public Law 96-288 authorizing the 40,000-acre (160 km 2) Bogue Chitto National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) in Washington and St. Tammany Parishes, Louisiana, and Pearl River County, Mississippi. Since that time, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has been acquiring bottomland hardwood habitat in the ...
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]
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