Agriculture
That pile of brush in the middle of the photo is a beaver lodge near Mansura -- home base for one of the nation’s largest species of rodents and a major drainage headache in Avoyelles Parish. Beavers dam up natural and man-made drainageways, flooding large areas. Parish officials are renewing their battle with beavers.
The Asian lady beetle has become an annoying, unpleasant house guest for many in the area this fall.
Master weavers will show workshop participants how to create river cane baskets like this during a day-long course this Saturday, 9 a.m. - 3 p.m., at the Tunica-Biloxi Culture & Educational Resource Center on La. Hwy 1 in Marksville.