Stiaes said portions of a 6,000-acre lagoon and 1,900-acre marsh have been restored partly thanks to the trees. But what works in Bayou Sauvage might not work in most places on the Louisiana coast ...

A Louisiana National Guard helicopter crew drops a bundle of Christmas trees into the marsh, as barrier protection to the shoreline, in the Bayou Sauvage Urban National Wildlife Refuge in New ...

Louisiana National Guard Soldiers attach a bundle of Christmas trees to a UH-60 Black Hawk at Bayou Sauvage National Wildlife Refuge during the annual Christmas tree drop. (U.S. Army National ...

Three months later after the season of giving, Christmas trees are helping rebuild the wetlands.New Orleans city leaders said more than 9,000 Christmas trees that were collected in Orleans Parish ...

LAFITTE, La. — Thousands of recycled Christmas trees are set to be placed in bayous along Louisiana's coast to help restore the coastline. More than 110 volunteers will gather in Laffitte, La ...

A north Louisiana state park has one of the biggest, most unique cypress trees you’ll find anywhere in the state. It’s nicknamed the “castle tree.” ...

The trees are used to build marsh habitat. “Not long ago, this marsh had turned into open water,” Pon Dixson, of the Fish and Wildlife Service, said aboard an air boat in the Bayou Sauvage Urban ...