News & Updates
The latest news, updates and events from our campaign to protect and restore the Mississippi River delta.
Feb 29 BP settlement needs to include accountability, restoration
This week U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier delayed the start of the trial over the Deepwater Horizon oil disaster to allow more time for settlement negotiations. Any final settlement must hold BP and the other responsible parties fully accountable for the magnitude of the disaster they caused, and it must ensure that penalty dollars come … read more »
Feb 24 Delta B.A.S.S.
The Mississippi River Delta is one of the best places on earth to catch monster largemouth bass. If America’s anglers didn’t know that before, they certainly discovered it last year when Kevin van Dam shattered the previous stringer record at the 2011 Bassmaster Classic. Last night, the Vanishing Paradise team was honored to have the … read more »
Feb 23 Time for the Senate to Act
Last week, America’s hunters and anglers got some promising news when the House of Representatives passed an amendment by voice vote dedicating 80 percent of Clean Water Act fines from the BP oil spill to Gulf restoration. The Gulf Coast provides wintering or stopover habitat for as many as 15 million ducks and geese annually … read more »
Feb 22 Win $2,500 of fishing tackle!
Visit Booth #504 at the Bassmaster Classic Expo in Shreveport- Berkley and its parent company Pure Fishing are working with Vanishing Paradise to raise awareness of the need to restore Louisiana’s eroding coastal wetlands by giving away a $2,500 fishing package this weekend at the Bassmaster Classic Expo in Shreveport. The package will be filled … read more »
Feb 07 Make A Call for the Gulf
Despite the continued threats to fish and wildlife in the Gulf, the Senate is stalling on a bipartisan piece of legislation called the RESTORE Act that will help the Gulf recover from the 2010 oil spill. Without your voice, this common-sense piece of legislation may not make it across the finish line. Please call your … read more »
Jan 20 A Blueprint for Fixing the Coast
The 2012 Coastal Master Plan is a realistic assessment of what it will take to create new wetlands and increase hurricane protections for people living in the coastal zone. Louisiana’s sportsmen need to get behind this bold plan to save the coast. In mid-summer of 2010, amid the chaos of the BP oil spill and … read more »
Dec 20 Something Needs to be Done, But What?
I have had the wonderful opportunity for nearly the last six years to travel around Louisiana and elsewhere to meet with passionate outdoorsmen, business leaders, commercial fishermen, policy makers and coastal residents to discuss our state’s rapidly vanishing coastal wetlands, the importance of those wetlands and the need to make every effort possible to restore … read more »
Nov 14 The Good Folks at Recycled Fish
Our good friend Teeg Stouffer over at Recycled Fish has been most kind to Vanishing Paradise. Some of you may remember this Fish Schtick video Teeg shot at the Bassmaster Classic in New Orleans back in February. This month, the folks at Recycled Fish have done two incredible things for Vanishing Paradise. First, Teeg made … read more »
Nov 13 The Simple Pleasure of Wandering the Marsh
Fishing Louisiana’s coastal marsh is the highlight of my year and, for the past 13 years, I have been engaging annually in the simple pleasure of wandering the marsh in search of redfish. As past editor of Western Outdoors I’ve fished from Alaska to Baja, California to Florida—nothing compares to fishing this world-class destination. Driving … read more »
Oct 20 Photo Contest: Fishing Across America
What’s your favorite fishing photo? Are you holding a tarpon almost as tall as you? Is it a picture of your granddaughter holding up her first blue gill? Or is it a snapshot of that day spent fly-fishing in a clear mountain steam? In our new contest, we want to see fishing photos from our … read more »
