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Houma Courier
January 27, 2018
The group visited the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium in Cocodrie, canoed Lake Verret and helped build retention fences out of donated Christmas trees in Terrebonne Parish along the Intracoastal Waterway near the Mandalay National Wildlife Refuge. The fences, also called cribs, help provideÃÂ ...
WDSU New Orleans
January 20, 2018
LOUISIANA —. The winter weather this week has hampered water usage across Southeast Louisiana. Although not under a boil water advisory, the Sewerage and Water Board of New Orleans is urging residents in Orleans Parish to limit their water use as they work to ensure a safe and healthy drinkingÃÂ ...
Houma Courier
January 20, 2018
Runoff from fertilizers, such as phosphorus, are also to blame for the increase. The increase poses a risk to infrastructure and pipes, as well as to creatures that are sensitive to salt, such as amphibians, said Alex Kolker, a research scientist with the Cocodrie-based Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium,ÃÂ ...
Houma Courier
January 17, 2018
The unusual freezing temperatures this week that plunged south Louisiana into single-digit wind chills have increased the potential for fish kills across the area, Department of Wildlife and Fisheries officials said. Coastal species commonly impacted by low water temperatures are white trout, red drum, blackÃÂ ...
Houma Courier
January 9, 2018
Marsh fires like the flames that ripped through a grassy area near Martin Luther King Boulevard and La. 311 Sunday have been keeping local fire departments busy lately. Bayou Cane Fire Department crews were forced to close down parts of Savanne Road Sunday to safely battle the marsh fire, Chief KenÃÂ ...
NPR
January 5, 2018
Ollie and Daniel Williams stand in front of their raised home with their children Trinity, 9, and Masen, 12. The land surrounding their house floods so often that the family keeps a small fiberglass canoe tied to the bottom of the front steps and a flat-bottom boat tied to the side of their house to aid in evacuating.
Houma Courier
January 3, 2018
We used to have a lot of them down in Cocodrie, but we just don't have the marsh out there that we once had. This last fire was much further north than where we would typically see grass or marsh fires.” As temperatures continue to dip into frigid territory, the state fire marshal's office issued an emergencyÃÂ ...
Natchez Democrat
December 25, 2017
Cable — a 2011 graduate of Trinity Episcopal — runs his own charter fishing business in Cocodrie, La., and was testing the waters through a canal with ... Cable's redfish — a whopping 41.89 inches — was officially measured and weighed by the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries the day afterÃÂ ...
Houma Courier
December 12, 2017
Construction on a new artificial reef in Lake Pelto, south of Cocodrie, began Tuesday and is expected to support small marine life as well as popular sportfish. The reef is a cooperative effort between the Coastal Conservation Association of Louisiana, Chevron, Building Conservation Trust and the LouisianaÃÂ ...
WAFB.com
November 1, 2017
Oct. 31, 2017 – The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries ... 2014, blocking waterways that connect Cocodrie Bayou to Lake Valerie.
Houma Courier
October 27, 2017
The nonprofit Public Lab will host its sixth annual Barnraising at the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium in Cocodrie from Friday through ...
WAFB.com
October 25, 2017
The Louisiana book fest takes place this Saturday and that means you can ... as historical cemeteries Denham Springs, Cocodrie, and Leeville, ...
The Weather Channel
October 7, 2017
1, Hurricane Gustav made landfall near Cocodrie, Louisiana as a Category 2 hurricane. More than $4 billion in damages occurred in the U.S. ...
The Weather Channel
October 6, 2017
1, Hurricane Gustav made landfall near Cocodrie, Louisiana as a Category 2 hurricane. More than $4 billion in damages occurred in the U.S. ...
KATC Lafayette News
October 6, 2017
The sixth closure area will take place in the Terrebonne Basin, in an area from Dulac south beyond Cocodrie beginning at 12 a.m. March 16, ...
mySanAntonio.com
September 30, 2017
COCODRIE, La. (AP) — Researchers headed by a Louisiana consortium have received nearly $5 million to keep studying the effects of the ...
Houma Courier
September 17, 2017
The Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium's DeFelice Marine Center, on the upper end of ... 56, Cocodrie, and is free to the public to visit.
FOX 8 News WVUE-TV
July 22, 2017
According to a Terrebonne Parish sheriff's office report, it happened Friday, July 21, shortly after 11:00 p.m. in Lake Baree near Cocodrie, La.
Daily Comet
December 31, 1999
In Louisiana, the number of boating deaths rose from 22 in 2015 to 24 ... this year, one last month near Dulac and one in July near Cocodrie.
NOLA.com
December 31, 1999
... down at the site of a measuring station about 30 miles south of Cocodrie. ... Sara Sneath covers Louisiana coastal issues for NOLA.com | The ...
Daily Comet
December 31, 1999
The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries will host a free hunter ... will be held Oct. 21-22 at the TradeWinds Marina in Cocodrie.
Houma Courier
December 31, 1999
A 34-year-old man wanted since missing his court date in August has been arrested, authorities said. Israel Domangue, of 7200 Siegen Lane ...
Houma Courier
September 1, 2017
... alone in Moncleuse Bay between Cocodrie and Dulac late Tuesday ... weather turned severe as Tropical Storm Harvey entered Louisiana.
POLITICO Magazine
September 1, 2017
His father was born in Cocodrie, Louisiana, an old Cajun fishing village on the edge of the Gulf of Mexico. Foret grew up 15 miles north inÃÂ ...
Houma Courier
August 30, 2017
... continues to bring a threat of heavy rain and flash flooding to southeast Louisiana. ... The Cocodrie barge gate will also close later today.
Houma Courier
July 23, 2017
A team that includes the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium in Cocodrie is among 15 groups that have received $16 million combined toÃÂ ...
FOX 8 News WVUE-TV
July 22, 2017
According to a Terrebonne Parish sheriff's office report, it happened Friday, July 21, shortly after 11:00 p.m. in Lake Baree near Cocodrie, La.
Houma Courier
July 19, 2017
An argument over a pawned game machine led to the murder of a 46-year-old man whose body was found in a Cocodrie waterway two yearsÃÂ ...
Daily Comet
December 31, 1999
Nancy Rabalais (left), a scientist with the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium research center in Cocodrie, works to record the size of theÃÂ ...
Houma Courier
December 31, 1999
The Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium in Cocodrie held its first career panel in three years on Friday to help undergraduate students inÃÂ ...
Dredging News Online
March 23, 2017
Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards has unveiled the newly-completed restoration of the Caminada Headlands, a 13-mile stretch of beach and dune running from the Belle Pass outlet of Bayou Lafourche eastward to Caminada Pass at the end of Elmer'sÃÂ ...
Houma Courier
March 23, 2017
Earlier this week, farmers from Wisconsin traveled to south Louisiana to meet with fishermen in Terrebonne Parish to learn about fishing, the Louisiana wetlands and the Gulf of Mexico dead zone. This wasn't the first time these two groups met, however ...
Houma Courier
March 21, 2017
In 2015, the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries estimated the state's blue crab population at 14.3 million pounds.
Daily Comet
March 21, 2017
Some crabbers in south Louisiana said they would have preferred the closure to occur at another time of the year, primarily because of Lent, when demand for crabs and other seafood is higher.
Daily Comet
March 20, 2017
Until now, researchers say, scientists didn't know which kinds of animals were most affected by BP's Deepwater Horizon disaster, which dumped an estimated 4.9 million barrels of crude into Louisiana's marshes, and what impact their collective fate had ...
FOX 8 News WVUE-TV
March 17, 2017
Undertaken in multiple stages since 2013, the restoration involved a first-of-its-kind method. About 8.4 million cubic yards of sand was dredged from Ship Shoal, an ancient Mississippi River delta in the Gulf of Mexico south of Cocodrie. Material was ...
The Advocate
March 9, 2017
John Bel Edwards is asking President Donald Trump to fast-track five coastal projects that he says will benefit not only Louisiana but the entire country, especially the energy and transportation industries. The five projects, all of which are included ...
Holmes County Times Advertiser
March 5, 2017
Across Louisiana and the Gulf Coast, these invaders have destroyed way more property and killed and injured far more Americans than those people the other wall you have proposed aims to repel.
Port St. Joe Star
March 5, 2017
I've heard you're interested in building a wall, and I want to let you know we've got one down here in south Louisiana that's shovel-ready. It's called the Morganza-to-the-Gulf hurricane-protection system, a 98-mile wall of levees, locks and floodgates ...
Daily Comet
February 21, 2017
The Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium is expanding its efforts to increase society's awareness of the environmental, economic and cultural value of Louisiana's coastal and marine environments, the organization's executive director said Tuesday ...
Houma Courier
February 21, 2017
The Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium is expanding its efforts to increase society's awareness of the environmental, economic and cultural value of Louisiana's coastal and marine environments, the organization's executive director said Tuesday ...
Houma Courier
February 18, 2017
The students toured the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium's marine research center in Cocodrie. And they worked on a project organized by the Terrebonne Parish government to help protect the Mandalay National Wildlife Refuge near the GulfÃÂ ...
NOLA.com
February 13, 2017
"Well, we dropped 3/8-ounce jigheads with old green Cocodrie Cocahoes, and caught them two at a time just as fast as you could get it down.
Daily Comet
February 3, 2017
A wetlands advocacy group says an executive order signed by President Donald Trump could help speed efforts to stem Louisiana's pressing coastal-erosion problems and save billions of dollars in the process. The order, signed Jan. 24, seeks to speed ...
Houma Courier
January 6, 2017
The 175-yard boardwalk at the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium's research center sends you straight into the marshes of Cocodrie. It runs over ponds that attract nutria, crabs, pelicans, blue herons and roseate spoonbills. It's a great place to ...
Daily Comet
January 6, 2017
The 175-yard boardwalk at the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium's research center sends you straight into the marshes of Cocodrie. It runs over ponds that attract nutria, crabs, pelicans, blue herons and roseate spoonbills. It's a great place to ...
Houma Courier
January 3, 2017
He is charged with second-degree murder in the death of Robbie Coulon, 46, whose body was found May 14, 2015, in a Cocodrie waterway. An autopsy showed the cause of death was asphyxiation. Authorities said Quinn and Coulon were close associatesÃÂ ...
The Louisiana Record
December 30, 2016
The plaintiff alleges he contacted BoatU.S. to bring the boat to a marina in Cocodrie, but this was not done due to inclement weather.
Houma Courier
December 21, 2016
One of Louisiana's most unique Christmas Eve traditions lies about 40 minutes from Thibodaux and just over an hour's drive from Houma.
Daily Comet
December 5, 2016
This summer, research by the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium in Cocodrie and others found the dead zone spanned nearly 6,000 square miles off the Louisiana and eastern Texas coasts -- an area roughly the size of Connecticut. Of the researchÃÂ ...
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