Ranchers cope with herd losses from Isaac's floods
By CAIN BURDEAUBy CAIN BURDEAU, Associated Press?
?FILE - In this Sept. 2, 2012 file photo, cattle stranded on a slim piece of dry land are seen as floodwaters from Hurricane Isaac recede in Plaquemines Parish, La. In August, ranches on the boot of Louisiana were speckled with cows and calves grazing on a smorgasbord of marsh grasses and flowers. Hurricane Isaac took all that away, turning some of the best ranch land in Louisiana into a miles-long pond of blackish and foul-smelling floodwaters. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, file)
FILE - In this Sept. 2, 2012 file photo, cattle stranded on a slim piece of dry land are seen as floodwaters from Hurricane Isaac recede in Plaquemines Parish, La. In August, ranches on the boot of Louisiana were speckled with cows and calves grazing on a smorgasbord of marsh grasses and flowers. Hurricane Isaac took all that away, turning some of the best ranch land in Louisiana into a miles-long pond of blackish and foul-smelling floodwaters. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, file)
FILE - In this Aug. 30, 2012 file photo, Shelly Henson, center, and Kristen Scarabin, right, try to rescue cattle from floodwaters after Hurricane Isaac came through the region, in Plaquemines Parish, La. Hurricane Isaac turned some of the best ranch land in Louisiana into a miles-long pond of blackish and foul-smelling floodwaters. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, file)
FILE - In this Sept. 4, 2012 file photo, a cow is seen stranded in floodwaters from Hurricane Isaac in Plaquemines Parish, La. Hurricane Isaac turned some of the best ranch land in Louisiana into a miles-long pond of blackish and foul-smelling floodwaters. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, file)
In this Aug. 30, 2012 photo, cattle are seen stranded on floating debris in floodwaters as people in an airboat try to rescue them, after Hurricane Isaac came through the region, in Plaquemines Parish, La. Hurricane Isaac turned some of the best ranch land in Louisiana into a miles-long pond of blackish and foul-smelling floodwaters. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
An Aug. 30, 2012 photo shows a nearly submerged mailbox and cattle stranded by floodwaters after Hurricane Isaac in Plaquemines Parish, La. Hurricane Isaac turned some of the best ranch land in Louisiana into a miles-long pond of blackish and foul-smelling floodwaters. Snakes, birds and a lot of the livestock raised here by a handful of ranching families drowned in Isaac's storm surge, which overwhelmed the weak levees protecting this farm country south of New Orleans. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
CITRUS LANDS, La. (AP) ? In August, ranchlands spreading across the boot of Louisiana were dotted with hundreds of cows and calves grazing on a smorgasbord of marsh grasses.
But Hurricane Isaac took all that away, turning some of the best grazing land in Louisiana's low country into miles of brackish and foul-smelling floodwaters. A lot of the livestock raised there by a handful of ranching families drowned in Isaac's storm surge along with other wildlife. The storm overwhelmed weak levees protecting farm country south of New Orleans.
South Louisiana's cattle industry consists mostly of pockets of ranchers along the coast, including Plaquemines Parish. But at least 400 cattle perished in Isaac, and ranchers in the Mississippi River Delta now are pondering whether they can continue a tradition that's more than 200 years old.
Associated Press
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