Discover how The Atchafalaya Basin protects Louisiana's coast from hurricanes. In the Atchafalaya Basin—the largest river swamp in the U.S.—ancient cypress trees act as natural barriers ...

Imagine standing on the edge of a land that breathes with the tides, where grasslands sway and birds wheel overhead, and the ...

These cypress trees are incredibly important for protecting ... Narrator] The Atchafalaya River Basin is America's largest river swamp and Louisiana's first line of defense against the extreme ...

Visitors can get a taste of South Louisiana's natural state ... can wander beneath the moss-draped cypress trees and take in ...

Situated between the Atchafalaya Basin swamps and the hills of central ... dwarf palmettos and towering, untamed cypress trees. This is southern Louisiana at its most wonderfully wild.

Long before paved roads and city skylines, the vast wetlands of South Louisiana served as the backdrop for a culture rooted ...

Swamp tours are a popular ... environmental issues coastal Louisiana is currently facing. Afterward, kayakers caravan to the tour site – the closest remaining cypress tupelo swamp, located ...

Learn more about the Mississippi River Basin's wetlands from coastal Louisiana to the headwaters in Minnesota.

We quietly float by tall cypress and tupelo trees. Some of them ... This forested swamp is tucked away in Tickfaw State Park in southeastern Louisiana. Steve Lawless has helped clear out branches ...

(WVUE) - To truly experience the scenery and wildlife of a Louisiana swamp, one needs to find ... It’s a way to quietly float past tall Cypress and Tupelo trees -- some of which have stood ...

Deep in the bayous and swamps of southern Louisiana ... the wild to forage among the waterways and groves of gnarled cypress trees dripping with Spanish moss requires Ramsay to watch out for ...