The Pearl River
The Pearl River Wildlife Management Area is a 35,031 acre tract of bottom-land timber nestled between the East and West Pearl rivers. The terrain is flat with poor drainage disposing the area to annual flooding. The forest cover varies from all age hardwood stands, to cypress tupelo, to intermediate type marsh. Species composition of hardwoods include water oak, nuttall oak, cow oak, obtusa oak, overcup oak, live oak, bitter pecan, hickory, beech, magnolia, sweetgum, and elm. The overstory is variable with areas that area moderately open and contrasted by those that are closed.Flood stage of the Pearl river is 14 feet. Over the duration of our stay, water levels ranged from 14 to 19 feet. Click here to find current water levels. The elevated water prohibited surveys of Honey Island Swamp so efforts were re-directed to traversing the stretches of the West Pearl River. 
Daily scouting most frequently involved shuttling crew and kayaks upstream to our launching point at Davis Landing in Slidell. From Davis Landing we paddled upstream in search of suitable sites to access land and began bushwhacking to the next plot (keeping an eye out for the abundant poison ivy and thorns of Rubus). The day of field work concluded with an hour long drift/paddle back downstream to Crawford Landing, jsut outside the fence surrounding our bunkhouse.
Adjacent to the bunkhouse commercial swamp tours departed daily loaded with tourists and school children. I am quite certain we got the best tour possible traveling via kayak without paying a dime.
posted by Erika @ 11:11 AM
4 Comments:
Patrick Strohm
the Pearl River
Fact 1: THe river is made up from 25% wetlands 40% of Tidal wetlands and 48% contiguous state.
Fact 2:Every year Louisiana loses as much as 40 square miles of land a year, that is almost the size of Washington D.C. most of the land loss is from rivers rising
Well I couldn't really find much about the geology and hydrology but I did find that a lot of the times that the river rose even a little, it would flood the homes that people built around or along the pearl river.
-Alli M.
fact 1: well the river has 2 parts the east and the west
fact 2: it splits this plain called the alluvial plain in 2
Alex Spears
THe Pearl river divides the Mississippi Alluvial Plain (Which stretches from LA to Illinois) into east and west sections. I FINALLY GOT ONE!!!!!!!!!!
Now for another fact.
I will send more in another comment because school is over.
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