We used GIS to compare past land-use/land-cover information from General Land Office (GLO) surveys taken in 1849/1851 with current forest composition to illustrate the extensive changes that have occurred in bottomland hardwood forest composition over the past 150 years in East Baton Rouge Parish...
Jeff Landry Republican Party LA State Attorney General (225) 326-6079 John M. Schroder Republican Party LA State Treasurer (225) 342-0010 Belinda Davis Unaffiliated LA State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education Member (225) 342-5840 1 2 3 The information provided on this website ab...
Louisiana Congressional Delegation Senate Senator:Mary Landrieu(D) Senator:David Vitter(R) House of Representatives (1 Democrat, 6 Republicans) LA-01Rep.:Steve Scalise(R) LA-02Rep.:Cedric Richmond(D) LA-03Rep.:Jeff Landry(R) LA-04Rep.:John C. Fleming(R) ...
Southern Louisiana’s separation from the Union was short-lived, and by May 1, 1862, New Orleans was occupied by Union army forces under Gen.Benjamin F. Butler. The general, intolerant of the lack of cooperation that he received from some Louisianans in the occupied state, had at least on...
The U.S. government borrowed money from English and Dutch banks to pay for the acquisition. Interest payments for the fifteen-year loans brought the total price to over $27 million. The vast expanse of land, running from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains and from the Gulf of Mex...
The General Land Office of the United States began, as early as 1842, a detailed survey of the land forming the disputed area, of which township plats appear in the record. The survey gave the location of Marsh island, Half Moon or Grand Island, an unnamed island, Petit Pass island, and...
General Treasurer:John Schroder, R (to Jan. 2024) Atty. General:Jeff Landry, R (to Jan. 2024) U.S. Representatives:6 Senators:John Kennedy, R (incumbent); Bill Cassidy, R (in office to Jan. 2027) Historical biographies of Congressional members ...
It seems things at the office were a very chewy cluster of f*ck. As Spurlock sought to remove Kimmons from the agency in November and December, she was also supporting the hiring of former Pushmataha County Judge Jana Wallace as OSBI’s new general counsel. But Wallace resigned May 2 for...
Land uses in the 18 river parishes of Louisiana otherwise known as the Louisiana Gulf Coast (LGC), for purposes of this article, create serious environmental public health problems for the area. For example, the population density in the LGC is high,and the built environment has overrun much...
Landry, a former member of the U.S. House, is now Louisiana’s attorney general with an eye on the governor’s office just up the street. Kennedy and Cassidy, of course are Louisiana’s two U.S. senators while Higgins, Scalise, Abraham and Johnson are in the House. Abraham, an unsu...