Posted on November 4, 2026
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The Mississippi River Delta stretches over roughly 2.7 million acres, including the largest area of brackish marsh on the North American continent.
The delta supports vast wetlands and fisheries, wildlife habitat, and is a key flyway for migrating birds.
“There’s more life in wetlands and marsh and swamps than almost anywhere else on the planet,” said Foster Creppel, an outdoorsman and coastal activist in Plaquemines Parish.
The Louisiana coast is also one of the most rapidly sinking and disappearing landscapes on the planet.
Since 1932, the U.S. Geological Survey estimates the state has lost roughly 2,000 square miles of wetlands.
