Young pine trees sport dead, brown needles and charred bark in a forest along Lonzie Doyle Road near the Westport community in Rapides Parish on Sept. 5, 2023. This forest burned in the Highway 113 Fire, which damaged about 8,000 acres.
Sugarcane stalks in Chad Hanks’ field in Lafayette Parish stood 3 feet tall in August, a time that they should have been 7 to 9 feet tall. Hanks was expecting at least a 40% reduction in his crop yields this year because of the extremely high temperatures and lack of rainfall. Photo by Craig Gautreaux/ LSU AgCenter
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