The Pearl River map turtle, which lives nowhere in the world except along the Pearl River in Louisiana and Mississippi, has now secured federal protections.

Map turtles get their names from the patterns on their backs that resemble topographical maps. The project proposed by the Corps would dredge out the sandy banks of the Pearl River and build a dam to ...

One involves home elevations, buyouts and new levees with no new lake, which would have the least effects on the lower Pearl River. The other proposes dredging the Pearl and adding levees near Jackson ...