Bayou-Diversity

Persistent patterns of nature permeate our bodies and our environment, and for the most part go unrecognized by all but the very observant. One ubiquitous…

During one of the earliest European explorations of interior North America in 1541 Hernando de Soto's scribes wrote of a particular tropical-like fruit…

Does your magnolia tree in the front yard have feelings? How about the Better Boy tomato plants that you pinched the suckers from yesterday? In order to…

Though mates for life, for much of the year they sleep on opposite sides of our house in the woods. One we call the east wren. This is the male. The west…

Louisiana's bayous and rivers have long been considered blessings and banes, depending on one's preferred mode of transportation. In a land laced with…

Swamps sleep naked and are slow to awaken. Long after green-up in the uplands, deep overflow swamps that sustain Louisiana bayous and rivers remain…

It can't be spoken in soft words for there is no other way to put it. Whether you are for it or against it, the recent sea change in American politics has…

Always in late February when the first white crawfish reached two inches in length, a ritual began in the D'Arbonne Swamp that included my father, his…

Since the founding of America, attitudes toward nature have changed and they continue to do so. Early pioneers maintained a European mind-set, considering…

They were thought of as noisy mobs of rogues hell-bent on destruction. They swarmed the grain fields and orchards of European settlers consuming the…