In 1993, the co-owners of Alligator Bayou Tours learned that hundreds of acres of bottomland hardwoods in the Spanish Lake Basin would be cut for lumber. This valuable habitat was saved by Frank Bonifay, Jim Ragland and community members working in cooperation with local, state and federal government.

Today, Bluff Swamp Wildlife Refuge & Botanical Gardens, a national
non-profit organization, protects 901 acres of land that is home to giant cypress trees, alligators, snakes, turtles, owls, white-tailed deer, and more than 250 species of birds.

We hope that you will acquire a deeper respect for this wilderness while learning about and enjoying its beauty, serenity and ecological value.

If you would like to contribute your time and talent or make a donation to BSWR, please email us at info@alligatorbayou.com. Contributions are
tax-deductible.

We invite you to help us preserve this beautiful basin, one of few wetland habitats being restored in the Lower Mississippi River Valley.

Thanks to all of you who are working to restore Bluff Swamp and the Spanish Lake Basin by making donations or by contributing your time and talents in so many different ways.

A very special thanks to Orhan McMillan (www.omcdezins.com) for his amazingly creative design of this website (if you, too, are impressed, let him know).

Special thanks also to the superb photographers who have kindly contributed their art to this website: Philip Gould, Bruce Morgan, Judy Pennington, Jim Ragland, Donna Smith, Bill Wilks, David Wood and David Young.

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