Swamps, Bayous & Louisiana's Wild Cypress Country

The Louisiana swamp and bayou landscape (the coastal wetlands of southeastern Louisiana — the largest coastal wetland system in the continental United States, covering approximately 3,600 km² (1,400 sq miles) of cypress swamp, marsh, and brackish bayou between New Orleans and the Gulf of Mexico): the Louisiana swamp ecosystem is simultaneously one of the most productive biological ecosystems in North America and one of the most rapidly disappearing landscapes in the world (Louisiana loses approximately 25-35 square miles (65-90 km²) of coastal wetlands per year to sea-level rise, subsidence, and the loss of Mississippi River sediment behind the levees).