NEW ORLEANS, La. (WVUE) - On a remote Louisiana island, the first brown pelican eggs have hatched this year. It marks an especially important new generation on Queen Bess, since the island a few miles ...

A Brown Pelican baby boom is underway on Queen Bess Island two miles north of Grand Isle, Louisiana in Barataria Bay. Thousands of Brown Pelicans are nesting on their newly restored 37-acre island.

NEW ORLEANS, La. (WVUE) - A few miles north of Grand Isle, contractors race the clock in a first-of-its-kind island restoration. A $10 million dredging project is piecing back together Queen Bess ...

Louisiana has lost more than half its brown pelican colonies in the past decade. Using fines from the spill, an important island habitat gets a makeover. Queen Bess Island, one of the most important ...

After Louisiana officials finished restoring 37-acre Queen Bess Island in February, much of the vegetation planted on its small footprint of newly pumped sand didn't have time to take root before more ...

Each spring, thousands of brown pelicans flock to Queen Bess Island, about three miles off the coast of Grand Isle, to have babies. This month state wildlife officials designated it a state wildlife ...

A fragile part of Louisiana's unique ecosystem is a little less fragile thanks to some local volunteers. Seven students from Fletcher Technical Community College recently participated in a restoration ...

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