Chris Staudinger
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Whooping Crane Love Stories
Conservationists play match maker to one of the world's rarest birds for Country Roads Magazine
A US Oil Company Cut Nearly 2,000 Jobs
– and reaped $2.1bn in pandemic benefits for The Guardian, in partnership with The Louisiana Illuminator
Against the Grain
Fighting the Wallace Grain Elevator in St. John the Baptist Parish for ANTIGRAVITY Magazine
Mapping the Future with Grow Dat and City Park
for ANTIGRAVITY
Slow Relief, Deep Divide in Hurricane Housing Recovery
for Next City
Gulf Harmonies with Cory Diane
Experimental music with an endangered Gulf of Mexico whale
A Bitter Sting
St. James Parish braces for the closure of the Convent Refinery
Little Geysers
a strange find, growing in the sand on a deserted island in the middle of the Mississippi River
originally for Crikey!
St. John Makes, Marathon Takes
Communities struggle to reclaim property taxes from industry
Morse Gist
From the Depression to the Blues and Beyond for Legends Magazine
Losing Ground
Residents of St. James demand answers from the state for ANTIGRAVITY
Cypress Avenue
exploring a remote patch of old growth cypress in the Tangipahoa wetlands
for Country Roads
The Mark of Cane
Scientists in the Mississippi Delta fight to save the roseau cane, all while scientists elsewhere struggle to eradicate the same species
Running on Empty
How will Louisiana adapt to an inevitable, global energy transition away from oil and gas?
Paradise Gained
Unlike almost every other place along the Louisiana coast, land is growing, not disappearing, at the base of this old canal.
Loading More Guys
Shining a light on gay dating in the app age
Brushing Shoulders with Walter Anderson
Primitive camping on Horn Island still kindles artistic spirits
Camping in the Atchafalaya Basin
Louisiana's Whooping Cranes
One of the rarest and tallest birds in North America finds new habitat, but struggles to survive
Squeezed Out
All risk and no reward for the residents of St. James Parish 5th District
One Signature Short of Freedom
An interview with FoxandRob, advocates for the immediate release of Gloria “Mama Glo” Williams
Rough Seas on the Atchafalaya
Anti-pipeline protests deep in the wetlands of the largest river basin in North America
Little Organisms That Could
Making art of the invisible microorganisms that make Louisiana's wetlands one of the most productive on the planet
Pipeline Protests Roil the Atchafalaya
Why Paddle the Mississippi River
A Six Part Series about canoeing the Mississippi from Caruthersville, Missouri to the Gulf of Mexico
originally for Canoe and Kayak Magazine
Wooden Vessels
Madisonville residents pay homage to the art of boat-making
What is Bayou Paddling
The mysterious word behind mysterious waterways
Chef Menteur Highway
With every bridge, a layer of urban life peels back
Bodies on the Line: An interview with Alicia Cook
An inside look at pipeline protests in the Atchafalaya Basin
A Surprising New Ingredient for Wetland Growth
A Different Kind of Christmas Tree
How the Black Willow fuels the Festival of the Bonfires on the Mississippi River
Cold Blooded
Louisiana vs. the Bayou Bridge Pipeline
Which War?
Why the bicentennial of the Battle of New Orleans should matter to you
River Quest
Circumnavigating Big Island, at the confluence of the Arkansas, White, and Mississippi Rivers
for Memphis Flyer
The One That Got Away
Refuge in the luckiest fishing village in the world
for Legends Magazine
Lions of the Swamp
The story of alligator harvesting in South Louisiana
Sneaking Out With Ellis and Neckbone
A review of Mud, a film about two boys escaping their town in the Arkansas Delta to a remote island in the Mississippi River
What's In The Water
After historic dam removal, a look beneath the surface of Bayou St. John
for NOLA Defender
Dredgefest Rethinks Dirt in the Delta
Visiting sites of human sediment handling practices in Southern Louisiana
