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September 04, 2008
Emergency Closure of Park Sites
Jean Lafitte sites have been closed due to emergency but will reopen the week of September 8.

 

 
A satellite picture shows Hurricane Katrina spinning over the Gulf of Mexico in August 2005.
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Hurricane Katrina over Louisiana Coast in 2005
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A hungry Louisianan peels crawfish.  

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Although there are over 250 species of North American crawfish, Louisiana’s annual 100-million-pound, $50 million harvest consists mainly of two species. There are a lot of ways to eat crawfish: crawfish etouffee, crawfish pie, crawfish stew, boiled crawfish, crawfish beignets, crawfish bread.....

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