Check out this great video about the unique habitat of Long Leaf Pine forests. LTL has two conservation easements which preserve this crucial but disappearing habitat: Abita Creek Flatwoods in St. Tammany Parish and Pine Knoll Farm in Tangipahoa Parish.
The Cajun Prairie: Louisiana’s Forgotten Grassland
June 22, 2026
When most people think of Louisiana’s natural landscapes, they picture cypress swamps, bayous, marshes, and bottomland forests. Yet one of the state’s most remarkable ecosystems is often overlooked: the Cajun prairie, or coastal prairie ecosystem. Once stretching across more than 2.5 million acres of southwestern Louisiana, the Cajun prairie was a vast expanse of native