Topic - Jean Lafitte

Related Stories

This June 3, 2018 photo shows a verdant landscape in the Barataria Preserve, part of Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve in Marrero, Louisiana, just outside of New Orleans. Visitors will find a symphony of frogs and strange formations of cypress trees known as knees pushing up through the swamps amid the preserve's woods and wetlands. (AP Photo/Beth J. Harpaz)

Frog symphony and ancient trees in a verdant Louisiana swamp

By BETH J. HARPAZ - Associated Press

This aerial photo shows Delacroix Island surrounded by fragmenting and eroding marshland and coastal waters in St. Bernard Parish, La., on Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2015. The shrinking fishing community lies outside the the New Orleans area storm risk reduction system and is vulnerable to potential future storm surges. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Hurricane Katrina 10 years later: Gulf eats away at coast outside levee-protected New Orleans

By Cain Burdeau - Associated Press